“Little Joe” Dallesandro On Inspiring The Hustler Character In Lou Reed’s “Walk On The Wild Side”

I didn’t have any relationship with Lou back then. We hadn’t met during that time. We never talked. What happened was Lou wanted to have his own career and get away from the Velvets. Paul suggested he do a song about the people in the Factory and in his movies. So Lou watched Flesh. He saw some of the people at Max’s Kansas City too. He sat down and wrote ‘Walk on the Wild Side’ about us. But it was the character he wrote about. Not me.”