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Posted on 10/27/2013 10:58:25 AM PDT by BunnySlippers
Lou Reed, a massively influential songwriter and guitarist who helped shape nearly fifty years of rock music, died today. The cause of his death has not yet been released, but Reed underwent a liver transplant in May.
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This is it .... the one WITH GEORGE BUSH ...
WALK ON THE WILD SIDE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmH50pEEEY0
Everybody on Fakebook wants to let me know that they know that Lou Reed, whoever he is, has croaked!
Oops.
Sorry.
Tell them it isn’t true. That it’s a hoax.
Anyway, the Walk on the Wild Side w George Bush and it’s a really good version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmH50pEEEY0
I always thought his was the original version. No?
I did tell them it’s a hoax. And the George Bush rendition is better than the original.
Don’t know how it got 19 million views. Music is subjective so what you like is what you like. As for me, never having heard it before, it was soporific. There is room for all kinds of music provided some one will listen to it. Good bye Lou.
I liked his music-my musical tastes are broad-I have “Lulu”, but I liked his jazzy stuff best-
“Holly came from Miami FLA,
Hitch-hiked her way across the USA
Plucked her eyebrows on the way
Shaved her legs and then he was a she”
71 is young to die-but with a transplant, and years of burning the candle at both ends, maybe not so much...
That’s a keeper !!!
Thanks.
I love the blending of Imagine and Wild side with Bush.
Very cleaver and very well done.
Guess he is taking a walk on the wild side aboutnow.
RIP Lou.
“Walk on the Wild Side” was of course Lou’s take on the scene around Andy Warhol in New York. All the names check out.
No one depicted the seedier side of NYC better than Lou.
I put it on my Pinterest page for using frequently.
OK...that was bizarre, lol.
Thanks for the music. RIP.
Coincidentally, just saw a commercial using his song “Perfect Day” and thought it a little bizarre.
His influence was on other musicians. The saying goes that not many people bought a Velvet Underground LP but everyone who did started their own band.
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