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On This Day: Lou Reed’s “Walk On The Wild Side”

On November 8, 1972, Walk on the Wild Side, Lou Reed’s classic paean to downtown New York, and some of the more prominent characters that occupied that space and time, was released. the original single At the time, Walk on the Wild Side was groundbreaking in many ways — musically, lyrically, thematically.  Though it’s now comfortably […]

On This Day: Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side”

Lou Reed’s classic paean to downtown New York and some of the more prominent characters that occupied that space and time, Walk on the Wild Side, was released on November 8, 1972. At the time, Walk on the Wild Side was groundbreaking in many ways — musically, lyrically, thematically.  Though it’s now comfortably middle-aged, the song […]