Peter Laughner Essay

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Peter Laughner Peter Laughner was a very good person, great song writer and a very gifted musician as well. But unfortunatly every good career that person has has to come to an end as Peter Laughner's did. Peter Laughner died of pancreatitis according Lester Bangs. The death of Peter laughner is in some way inadvertently connected with Lou Reed. The way that Peter Laughner thought he could be the new Lou Reed was by doing amphetamine and by drinking on a daily basis. By doing a lot of drugs including amphetamine and by doing a lot of drinking just like Reed did during that time Laughner died at a young age of twenty-four. Peter Laughner died because of three reasons one was because he was trying to be like someone he was facinated about and admired a lot and the other two reasons were because he did too many drugs and he also drank too much alcohol. Peter Laughner was addicted to amphetamine and other drugs because he though he could be the new Lou Reed. Peter Laughner was said to be dead because of the use of too much alcohol. Which is why Lester Bangs said that “before dying on June 22nd at the age of twenty-four of acute pancreatitis, he founded Cleveland, Ohio's original legendary underground rock band, Rocket from the Tombs”(Bangs 217). Before Peter Laughner died, one night when he was out drinking and doing drugs he had gone out to CBGB'S to party but when he tried going on stage with Patti Smith he got thrown off and ended up in the hospital. “ Peter was in the hospital a lot during his the last two years of his life”(Bangs 218). Laughner was in the hospital a lot because of all the alcohol and drug abuse he did. There were many thoughts on how Peter Laughner died which would include drug overdose or any other accident. But the real reason to why Peter laugner died was because of the acute pancreatitis according to Lester Bangs. Lou Reed had a big

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