Flowers also featured on a string of classic rock hits, including those for David Bowie, T Rex, Bryan Ferry and Elton John
Herbie Flowers was also a founding member of Blue Mink, founded the prog rock band Sky and was said to have recorded over 20,000 sessions.Herbie Flowers was also a founding member of Blue Mink, founded the prog rock band Sky and was said to have recorded over 20,000 sessions.Tributes have been paid after the death of Herbie Flowers, the session musician whose instantly recognisable bassline on Lou Reed’s Walk on the Wild Side is considered one of the greatest in pop music history.
Flowers was born in Isleworth in 1938 and began his career in the 1960s as a session musician playing for producers including Shel Talmy, Mickie Most and Tony Visconti. “People have often suggested that I should have got writer’s credits, but I just helped put an arrangement together,”. “Lou had the chords written out on a piece of paper and my job was to come up with the bass line.”: “You do the job and get your arse away. You take a £12 fee; you can’t play a load of bollocks.”
Flowers was a member of the final line up of T Rex shortly before Marc Bolan’s death, featuring on the band’s final album, 1977’s Dandy In The Underworld, and Bolan’s Marc TV show.
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