Maureen Tucker
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Emerging from a middle-class Catholic family in Queens and later raised in Levittown, she took up drums at nineteen, teaching herself a minimalist style that favored toms, a snare and an upturned bass drum played with mallets. After leaving Ithaca College and a brief stint as an IBM keypunch operator, she was recruited by Sterling Morrison to replace the Velvet Underground’s original percussionist…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources