Reed leaves his mark on Hollywood RockWalk

0 Comments | Deseret News (Salt Lake City), Jun 26, 2003

Lou Reed took a walk on the wild side down to Hollywood's RockWalk, where he placed his handprints and signature outside the Guitar Center music store on Sunset Boulevard.

"I think that's fantastic," he said of the honor Tuesday. "I'm very, very surprised and really get a kick out of this."

Best known for the 1972 hit "Walk on the Wild Side," Reed recently came out with a compilation spanning 35 years in music called "NYC Man -- The Ultimate Lou Reed Collection." Other albums from the founding member of the seminal avant-garde rock group the Velvet Underground include "Berlin," "Metal Machine Music" and "Transformer."

Other musicians celebrated on the RockWalk include B.B. King, Brian Wilson, Johnny Cash, Carlos Santana, James Brown, Carl Perkins, Bonnie Raitt and John Lee Hooker.