The lead singer of The Velvet Underground and one of the most influential men in music died yesterday aged 71 and the description of him in his High School Yearbook is quite fitting to say the least.
Reed, who will be best remembered as the lead singer of The Velvet Underground and as one of the coolest men in music, died yesterday in New York. He had been suffering from liver failure and received a transplant earlier this year and it is believed that he died as a result of an illness related to the transplant.
Reed’s death prompted a flood of tributes from contemporaries such as David Bowie and from numerous high profile members of the music industry and amongst the tributes that surfaced online yesterday was a picture of his profile in the Yearbook from Freeport High School in 1959.
Saying that ‘Lou likes music, basketball and naturally, girls’, it is a fitting description of the man he would become and you could almost imagine the last line in particular as a lyric from one of his songs: ‘As for the immediate future, Lou has no plans, but will take life as it comes.’
Rest in peace Lou, you’ll be greatly missed.
Hat-tip: Buzzfeed
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