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Herbie Flowers obituary
Bassist who played on an estimated 500 hit songs – the most recognisable being the motif he provided for Lou Reed’s Walk on the Wild Side
The producer Jeff Wayne later said that Flowers instinctively understood how the stripped-back arrangement could work, putting down an initial riff and overdubbing the part an octave higher. After Tiffin grammar school, aged 18, he was conscripted into the Royal Air Force, where he gained the nickname Herbie (short for “Herbaceous Borders”, a play on his surname). Later in life, settled in Ditchling, East Sussex, he would play jazz breakfast events at the Brighton fringe festival, with the drummer Malcolm Mortimore.
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