Verlaine, the band’s pale and lanky frontman, was a producer and singer-songwriter, but perhaps best known as a guitarist. Verlaine, she explained, “He plays lead guitar with edgy reverse passion like a thousand bluebirds screaming.” Verlaine, told New York Magazine in 2005, “For me, Tom Verlaine and television were what most inspired me: They weren’t glamorous, they were human.” When they were decades earlier in Writing in an article for Rock Scene magazine about the band and Mr. Patti Smith, an occasional collaborator and former romantic partner of Mr. Though the group only released two albums before disbanding, their music - crystalline and gruff, built on snappy rhythms and cascading twin guitars - influenced countless rock acts on both sides of the Atlantic. His death was confirmed by publicist Cara Hutchison of the Lede Company, who cited “a brief illness” but gave no further details.įounded in New York in 1973, Television helped spearhead a boisterous, artistically ambitious punk movement that grew out of CBGB, a paint-chip East Village club that became a haven for bands like the Ramones, Talking Heads, Blondie and the Patti Smith Group became. Tom Verlaine, a rock and roll poet whose lyrical guitar playing, choppy vocals and impressionistic lyrics helped propel his band Television into one of the most influential groups on New York’s 1970s punk scene, died January 28 in Manhattan.
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