Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side

[RandySF]

[orpupilofnature57]

1. David Bowie , wrote it and should have sang it ..

Andy Warhol art was great.

[NWHarkness]

4. UH, nope.

David Bowie did not write Walk On The Wild Side.

[orpupilofnature57]

5. Sorry ,he produced the album 'Transformer '

I sit corrected. He wrote the song ' All The Young Dudes ' for Mott the Hoople.

[DLine]

2. One of my favorite chill songs...

[Jack Rabbit]

3. Chill on this

A jazz composition of the same name written by Elmer Bernstein for a 1962 motion that really wasn't that good.

This is a vocal version by Brook Benton.

[orpupilofnature57]

6. Thank God for Alan Freed!!!!

[lovemydog]

7. that's bowie on saxophone

The people described - Joe Dallesandro, Candy Kane, etc. - are real people from the Warhol - Reed crowd.

[RandySF]

8. And there is a connection to Harvey Milk

Sugar Plum Fairy was Milk's lover for a time in NYC.


"Campbell travelled on the fringes of the Andy Warhol crowd, where he was dubbed the 'Sugar Plum Fairy,' the name rock 'n' roller Lou Reed later called Campbell in Reed's paeon to the New York hustling scene, 'Walk on the Wild Side'. Campbell's trendy friends were amazed that Joe had spent nearly seven years with Milk. The staid businessman didn't seem enough--attractive enough, rich enough, and certainly not chic enough--to warrant the attentions of the dazzling Sugar Plum Fairy."


http://www.queer-arts.org/milk/5.html