dhodo
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I've read that Walk on the Wild side was inspired by the trans women he was exposed to by Andy Warhol.
I always assumed that Transformer was just the Bowie/glam influence, but I really don't know.
Needles & Grooves AoTM /// Vol. 1 - July 2019 Lou Reed - The Blue Mask
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We'll have the chance to ask him everything, @Captainfog is trying to contact him and/or his agent to have him in the forum early July.
Murfocakes
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Lou was famously bisexual and in a relationship with a trans woman called Rachel. The track Coney Island Baby includes a dedication to her. He was one of the first mainstream artists to highlight trans people and deal with their lives with sensitivity, take Candy Says for example. This is why trans artists like Anhoni, who had a major career boost through Lou’s patronage (and his amazing appearance on Fistful Of Love) identify him as a ground breaker in pushing for minority rights. By the Blue Mask era he was married to Sylvia, and thus at the time Women was an eyebrow raiser, as much as average guy was. Lou Reed, however much he argues against it, is still Lou Reed. And I would like to think that in our more enlightened times Lou’s words are still apt, Rachel is as much as woman as any other.
I mean Bowie/Ronson played on & produced it but then they weren’t approached, from my knowledge Bowie sought it out because of how much he loved the Velvets.
Murfocakes
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Yes Bowie was a massive fan and had the VU & Nico album from early 66. He went to New York to see the Velvets but only met the Doug Yule incarnation and mistook him for Lou initially. After the VU breakup Lou returned to his patents house and worked in accounting for a while. Oh, how history could have been different.
This is part of why I love Bowie so much. Not only am impeccable pop chameleon. Not only impeccable taste. Doesn’t only go into bat for his impeccable taste but actively goes out and helps it create and promote itself too. We really were not worthy.!
dhodo
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Oh, I just meant the glammy looking face paint on the cover that dtknuckles was asking about!
Murfocakes
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Lou hated how he was misrepresented by the make up smothered cover, which he only wore a handful of times. That he allowed it to appear on another album says something about how important he must have viewed it in the chronology of his work
Murfocakes
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Bowie was the greatest. That is all
Murfocakes
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If it was more widely available you’d all be getting 1.Outside by Bowie as your album of the month instead of
Whatever it is you are getting
I think I’d go Station to Station, god I love that album, in my Bowie top 4.
Murfocakes
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Murfocakes
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That doesn’t need to rely on a CGI Will Smith
The return of the thin white duke throwing darts in lovers eyes...
Murfocakes
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It’s the sound of being 15. I remember skipping school to get the bus up to Belfast to get Station To Station. Every track is killer
The first three minutes of one note piano and magic distorted sounding guitar before a melody or vocals kicks in is just magic.
Magic, magic, magic.
Turbo
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In my Bowie top 1. It’s perfection.
Enoch
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It's a secret SK album that is widely available but completely unknown to you, all the Bowie-Lou Reed is to purposely throw you off
Well that is fantastic news! Since VMP is surely going to eff up the SK they do not deserve to have.It's a secret SK album that is widely available but completely unknown to you, all the Bowie-Lou Reed is to purposely throw you off