Bass icon Herbie Flowers, best known for his thick, jazzy-style bass tone on tracks like Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side and David Bowie's Space Oddity, died on September 5 at the age of 86.

British bassist Herbie Flowers — a veteran musician who performed ... and whose bassline for Lou Reed’s iconic 1973 hit “Walk on the Wild Side” has been sampled countless times — died ...

THE biologist always looks askance at “beautiful coloured plates” of biological material, for, unlike the hand paintings of flowers housed at Kew, scientific accuracy is almost invariably ...

By Alex Williams Herbie Flowers, a prolific British session musician who rode a handful of notes to rock immortality with his indelible bass line on Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side ...

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British bassist Herbie Flowers, who played on hundreds of recordings ... bass lines—both of them—on Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side,” the late Velvet Underground singer’s biggest ...

The work before us is incomplete from both points of view. Wild Flowers of the British Isles. Illustrated and written by H. Isabel Adams. Revised by James E. Bagnall. Vol. ii., order xlii., ...