Reed has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice as a member of the Velvet Underground in 1996 and as a solo act in 2015.
1.3 1964–70: Pickwick and the Velvet Underground.1.4 1970–75: Glam rock and commercial breakthrough.1.5 1975–79: Addiction and creative work.1.8 2000–12: Rock and ambient experimentationīiography 1942–57: Early life.1.7 1990–99: Velvet Underground reunion and various projects. Lewis Allan Reed was born on March 2, 1942, at Beth-El Hospital (later Brookdale) in Brooklyn and grew up in Freeport, Long Island. Reed was the son of Toby ( née Futterman) (1920–2013) and Sidney Joseph Reed (1913–2005), an accountant. His family was Jewish and his grandparents were Russian Jews who had fled antisemitism his father had changed his name from Rabinowitz to Reed. Reed said that although he was Jewish, his “real god was rock 'n' roll“. Reed attended Atkinson Elementary School in Freeport and went on to Freeport Junior High School. His sister Merrill, born Margaret Reed, said that as an adolescent, he suffered panic attacks, became socially awkward and 'possessed a fragile temperament' but was highly focused on things that he liked, mainly music. Having learned to play the guitar from the radio, he developed an early interest in rock and roll and rhythm and blues, and during high school played in several bands.
