Love for Sale: No. 3

'Walk on the Wild Side' (1973)
--Lou Reed

We're not wont to call Billy Joel's New Yorkness into question, but, frankly, "Candy" seems a more believable name for a '70s streetwalker in the Big Apple than "Roberta", who more apt to walk the streets of, say, Allentown. Among the grittier hooker tunes, there is no lovemaking in this song, a Top 20 hit for Reed, who has likely never uttered the phrase "make love."

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