Here's my fave obituary so far: http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2013/10/27/lou-reed/ http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2013/10/27/

Here's my fave obituary so far: http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2013/10/27/lou-reed/ http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2013/10/27/l... Jenny said when she was just five years old There was nothin’ happenin’ at all It was the fifties. We were living in cookie cutter houses in the suburbs. Our parents will still recovering from the war, buckling down and making a better life for their children, with barbecues and trips to the beach and… Every time she puts on a radio There was nothin’ goin’ down at all Not at all The radio was primarily for baseball. They played music, but it did not change our lives and then… Then one fine mornin’ she puts on a New York station You know, she don’t believe what she heard at all It happened overnight. Sports became secondary. The music, the politics, suddenly life was full of opportunities and children were the leaders, not their parents. She started shakin’ to that fine fine music You know her life was saved by rock ‘n’ roll Imagine that. Not an iPhone. Not an iPad. The greatest exponent of technology was the transistor radio, almost no one had a color television set, never mind a flat screen. But that rock and roll music coming out of the tiny speaker or earphone…was enough.