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Written by: Reed
Produced by: David Bowie, Mick Ronson, Reed
Released: Dec. '72 on RCA
Charts: 14 weeks
Top spot: No. 16

After Reed left the Velvet Underground in 1970, he was asked to write songs for a musical based on Nelson Algren's novel A Walk on the Wild Side. The show was never mounted, but Reed kept the title and applied it to characters he knew from Andy Warhol's Factory. "I always thought it would be kinda fun to introduce people you see at parties but don't dare approach," said Reed.

Appears on: Transformer (RCA)

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