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Walk on The Wild Side in New York

New York City is the place where, Lou Reed once took a walk on the wild side. It’s an interesting piece of music trivia to realize that while many tourists staying in one of the small hotels New York are familiar with both the New York streets and city dynamics, and are also likely very aware of Lou Reed’s famous song, they probably are not familiar with the details of the associations between the song’s main characters and themes, to a particular period in New York’s history and culture.

Reed himself was born in Brooklyn New York in 1942 and was well aware of his city’s changes, statuses and major cultural situations and dynamics. Much of his musical career was spent at the main songwriter and singer for the legendary rock band The Velvet Underground. The major hit Walk on the Wild Side was recorded after he began his long solo career, which started in 1971. He has been associated with performance artists and fellow musician Laurie Anderson for many years and they were married in 2008.

Wild Side was a short chronology of a particular scene in New York’s culture. It was based on some associations of Andy Warhol and his studio, The Factory. Some of the key actors and personalities associated with the eclectic community became the lead characters of the song. These are Holly Woodlawn who is a transsexual and appeared in many of Warhol’s films, Candy Darling who was also a transsexual actor for Warhol and was well regarding for her beauty, Joe Dallesandro who was often considered to be the sexiest male actor in underground films, and of course, Jackie Curtis the dynamic personality, performer and writer who easily navigated the gender spectrum.

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Tags: Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed’s, New York, small hotels

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