#95

Walk on the Wild Side

Artist: Lou Reed
Album: Transformer
Released: 1972

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Notes

Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side went completely over my head when it came out in 1972. It's about a bunch of cross-dressers who come to New York to become gay prostitutes.

Plucked her eyebrows on the way.
Shaved her legs and then he was a she, she said
Hey Babe, take a walk on the wild side.


This is when gay life was totally underground, and surprisingly enough the radio stations played it and didn't ban it for it to become a big hit.

What's up with "the colored girls go do dodoo ..."


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