Eschewing all organizations, he wasĬreating an image that would in time become widely acknowledged as the essence of Lou quickly defined himself as an oddball loner. It was Syracuse where he met his fellow guitarist Sterling Morrison who had a similar background. While colleges in New York and Boston produced folk singers in the style of Bob Dylan, Syracuse created a bunch of proto-punk rockers. In 1960 he went into the Syracuse University, where he developed his A homosexual rock`n`roll musician was probably almost the worst nightmare come true for suburban parent`s of the 1950`s. ![]() Parents had other plans for their eldest son, but Lou couldn't fulfill their dreams. The first step was to remove himself from the control of his family. The central theme of his life became a struggle to express himself and get what he Treatments, 1959, through the summer of 1960 was a lost time for Lou. He wrote poems and played guitar all the time since 1954, when he was twelve. ![]() Lou`s dedicated his life to poetry and black rock`n`roll. Friends of Lou who visited their family house got another impression of his parents. Lou felt betrayedīy his parents, and after this he really hated them. If you walkedīecome, amongst other things, a writer, this was a terrible threat. You get to page seventeen and you have to go right back to page one again. He says himself You can`t read a book because To him was too much for a small vulnerable seventeen year old. The voltage for size or mental condition as they do today. Treatment caused a lot of problems for Reed, because in the Fifties they didn`t adjust His parents only wanted him to be healthy and learn to behave proper. ![]() Hospital three times a week for eight weeks. Recommended electroshock treatment at the Creedmore State Psychiatric To cure him for homosexual feelings and alarming mood swings. When he was seventeen in 1959 his parents sent him to a psychiatrist, Grew up with his strict conservative jewish parents in Brooklyn during the Forties andįifties. The Velvet Underground was formed as a band. Legendary songs as (Venus in Furs, Heroin and Waiting for the man) already before Reed was the boss and main figure in The Velvet Underground. The Velvet Underground and Andy Warhol story
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