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Sir Salman Rushdie has revealed that his late friend, iconic singer lou reedHis famous song was originally intended “walk on the wild side“For a musical.
The 78 year old writer revealed this velvet underground The frontman conceived the track, from their 1972 album Transformer, For the stage adaptation of Nelson Algren’s novel of the same name.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4 Desert Island DiscsSir Salman shared his views Personal relationship with Reed: “It’s extraordinary to say that I was friends with Lou Reed because when I was in college, I worshiped the Velvet Underground. And the thought that I would end up with Lou Reed’s phone number never crossed my mind.”
He elaborated on the song’s origins: “Originally, it was written as the title track of a Nelson Algren musical based on the novel, walk on the wild sideAnd then the musical fell apart, never happened, and so he rewrote it, the music is the same, but he rewrote the lyrics, removed the characters from the novel, and replaced them with characters from the (Andy) Warhol Factory,”
Sir Salman chose this track as one of his Desert Island Discs, along with Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind” and The Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”.
The author also describes a poignant close-up encounter with Nelson Algren himself. “It’s so weird because Nelson Algren, I almost met,” he said.
Algren reviewed Sir Salman midnight’s children In Chicago Tribune,
Sir Salman was on his way to Algren’s housewarming party when tragedy struck. “The party was completely set up, and he had a massive heart attack and died on the rug in the middle of the room, and the first guests who came over found the host dead on the floor. So I never met Nelson Algren, but almost.”
Sir Salman was released earlier this month the eleventh hourA collection of stories based on various locations, it is his first fiction book in nearly three years.
His famous works include the Booker Prize winner midnight’s children And satanic verseDue to which a fatwa was issued by the then Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989. Sir Salman, who spent years in hiding, has been traveling freely for the past quarter century.
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The Indian-British Booker Prize-winning author lost the vision in one eye after a knife attack in New York state in 2022.