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.
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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
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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
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Reed was the boss and main figure in The Velvet Underground. The Velvet Underground and Andy Warhol story