"Flowers was always in demand as a bass player and created one of the best known of all hooks for Walk on the Wild Side. It has a brilliant, instantly recognisable ascending and descending twang, but Flowers was modest about it."
"People have often suggested that I should have got writer's credits, but I just helped put an arrangement together, he said in an interview. Lou had the chords written out on a piece of paper and my job was to come up with the bass line."
"Aside from his incredible musicianship over many decades, he was a beautiful soul and a very funny man. He will be sorely missed. Our thoughts are with his family and friends."
"You do the job and get your arse away. You take a 12 fee; you can't play a load of bollocks. The fee was actually, it has been said, the grand sum of 17, which was more than the reported 9 he got for a three-hour session on Bowie's Space Oddity in 1969."
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