the song also transports plenty of sado-maso flair to a sluggish melody.

But the difference to "Wild Side" is obvious: while "Venus" was still characterized by the dissonances of the creative partner at the time, the Welshman John Cale, who was influenced by avant-gardists like John Cage, "Walk on the Wild Side" is embedded in euphony.

This is close to Cale-free late Velvet Underground recordings - but more perfectly produced.

In April 1970 Lou Reed left the Velvet Underground disillusioned. A great career was out of the question, because the band around Reed and Cale, founded by pop art grandmaster Andy Warhol, which is revered today, was cult, but the artists didn't get anything from it financially. The records sold little, and the Velvets were only known in the Warhol Factory environment. The fact that the band has influenced countless musicians to this day has increased their artistic fame, but not their income. British musician, producer and ringtone inventor Brian Eno summed up the phenomenon in an October 1982 interview with Musician magazine: "I was talking to Lou Reed the other day and he said that the first Velvet Underground record was in the early days was sold 30,000 times in five years. (...) I think anyone who owns one of these 30.bought 000 copies formed a band!”

One of these first fans was Londoner David Robert Jones, who was to become a world star as David Bowie.

While Bowie was still exploring his artistic path in the 1960s, which he would not find until the end of the decade - in the meantime, for example, he was performing the long-haired act at the BBC television studio with his band at the time, The Mannish Boys, in order to somehow gain attention - , Lou Reed, who was only five years his senior, was already a member of Andy Warhol's circle of artists.

He was in the middle of its melting pot, The Factory, but remained largely unknown outside of that bubble.

And when David Bowie then became a glam rock superstar with the albums "Hunky Dory" - which also contains a declaration of love to Warhol - and with "The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars",