British bassist Herbie Flowers — a veteran musician who performed with David Bowie, Elton John, T. Rex and Paul McCartney, and whose bassline for Lou Reed’s iconic 1973 hit “Walk on the Wild Side” has been sampled countless times — died Saturday, according to a social media post from his family. No cause of death was announced; he was 86.
A veteran session musician, Flowers, who was a member of the groups T. Rex and Blue Mink, was estimated to have played on more than 500 hit albums by the end of the 1970s, according to the BBC.
Born in 1938, Flowers became a musician in the Royal
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