"Walk on the Wild Side" and the Warhol Superstars

Update: 2024-03-08

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Pop artist Andy Warhol famously quipped, "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." This week, we meet the so-called Warhol Superstars — the gritty and glamorous entourage depicted in Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side," the poetic and unlikely Top 40 breakthrough that gave voice to people outcasted from mainstream society and immortalized them forever in song.

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"Walk on the Wild Side" and the Warhol Superstars

Lindsay Tucker & Aviv Rubinstien

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"Walk on the Wild Side" and the Warhol Superstars

Lindsay Tucker & Aviv Rubinstien

"Walk on the Wild Side" and the Warhol Superstars