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In a Rolling Stone review from the time, writer Nick Tosches described the song as “a laid-back, seedy pullulator … about various New York notables and their ramiform homo adventures, punctuated eerily by the phrases ‘walk on the wild side’ and ‘and the colored girls go ‘toot-ta-doo, toot-ta-doo.’

He wore a suit of dark blue cloth, with white satin linings that were revealed when he moved; it was heavily laced with gold, and a ramiform pattern broidered in gold thread ran up the sides of his silk stockings of a paler blue.