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Lou Reed's 1972 second solo album "Transformer" was produced by David Bowie and Mick Ronson. "Walk on the wild side" had an immediate, tremendous success; it tells about the journey to New York of some of the models, actors, prostitutes and artists of Andy Warhol's "The Factory",

the place where everything seemed to happen in the 60's. The names were Holly Woodlawn, Candy Darling (Lou Reed wrote another song about Candy, "Candy says"), Joe Dallesandro, Jackie Curtis, Joe Campbell. The saxophone solo was performed by Ronnie Ross, Bowie's friend since childhood, the backing vocals were sung by the girl group Thunderthigs. RCA released a version for the U.S. which eliminated the song's reference to oral sex. The song's title comes from a Nelson Algren's 1956 novel "A walk on the wild side".