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Walk on the Wild Side: The Best of Lou Reed

Walk on the Wild Side: The Best of Lou Reed is the first greatest hits compilation by Lou Reed, formerly of The Velvet Underground.


Ronnie Ross

Ross was a saxophone tutor for a young David Bowie, played tenor saxophone on The Beatles White Album track Savoy Truffle and years later was the soloist on the Lou Reed song "Walk on the Wild Side", which was co-produced by Bowie.

The Pizza Underground

The group released its first music video in January 2014, parodying various Velvet Underground songs such as "All Pizza Parties" ("All Tomorrow's Parties"), "Pizza Gal" ("Femme Fatale"), and "Take a Bite of the Wild Slice" (Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side").


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A Walk on the Wild Side

In 1970, Lou Reed was approached about a project to turn A Walk on the Wild Side into a musical, a story he tells between songs on the his 1978 Live: Take No Prisoners album.

Daniel Abineri

Abineri has produced and directed several television documentaries, including One Hit Wonders for the BBC in 1997, Walk on the Wild Side for Granada TV, and Murder and Celebrity for UKTV and A Conversation With James Lovelock for Network Films.

Rich Beem

Until this win, Beem was best known for the book Bud, Sweat and Tees: A Walk on the Wild Side of the PGA Tour by Alan Shipnuck, which profiled his rookie year on the PGA Tour and the often wild lifestyle of him and his caddy, Steve Duplantis.

Sonia Martínez

José María Cano, after his music career, started a new life as a London-based painter, and is the author of Take a walk on the wild side, a painting inspired by Sonia.

The Street of Crocodiles

The book, inspired by Schulz's short story and available in print and electronic formats, is introduced by The Village Voice film critic, J. Hoberman, as "...a walk on the wild side, an expedition down a melancholy boulevard of dreams."