2019 Levittown School District Hall of Fame Inductees
Holmes Sterling Morrison
Alumni Award
Division AvenueA founding member of the Velvet Underground, guitarist Sterling Morrison was part of a New York musical scene that brought a vibrant new cultural dimension to rock music at the height of the sixties. In 1965 he helped form the first "alternative rock" band. Their debut album, The Velvet Underground & Nico was released in 1967 and was called the "most prophetic rock album ever made" by Rolling Stone in 2003. They have been ranked #19 on Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" and the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996. Holmes Sterling Morrison passed away in 1995.