Kid Was Selling His Late Father's Guitar — What Lou Reed Did Left Him Crying

Описание: November 1982. A desperate 19-year-old sat outside CBGB on the Bowery, trying to sell his late father's 1968 Fender Stratocaster for three hundred dollars. His family was facing eviction, and the guitar was the only thing of value they had left.
His father, Jimmy Chen, had been a session musician who played on Velvet Underground recordings and countless underground albums throughout the 1970s. He died suddenly from a heart attack three months earlier, leaving behind a widow, three children, and crushing debt.
Marcus had spent hours on that cold sidewalk with no luck. Then a man in a black leather jacket and dark sunglasses stopped. It was Lou Reed.
What happened in the next twenty minutes would change Marcus's life forever. Reed didn't just recognize the guitar or remember working with Marcus's father. He did something that went far beyond a simple act of charity.
This is the true story of how Lou Reed saved a family, preserved a musical legacy, and proved that sometimes the most profound acts of kindness happen quietly, without cameras or publicity, between two strangers on a New York street.
The music doesn't die. It just keeps playing.
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