REED IS KING OF MERMAID PARADE
Veteran rocker LOU REED accepted a bizarre honour in New York on Saturday (19Jun10) - when he agreed to rule as king over the annual beachfront Me rmaid Parade.
The singer and his wife Laurie Anderson took to the boardwalk at the ko oky Coney Island event in his native Brooklyn to preside as king and quee n over the ceremony, which celebrates marine life.
But the devastating effects of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico w as not far from people’s minds - many parade participants, who dressed up as mermaids and sea creatures for the annual party, marked their skin wi th black body paint to represent the disaster’s impact on local birds and sea life.
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