Since the band’s demise, which has influenced countless other bands and artists, he has released eight solo albums
PA – Tom Verlaineguitarist and co-founder of seminal protopunk band Televisionwho influenced many bands while playing at CBGB, a downtown New York venue along with Ramones, Patti Smith and Talking Heads, is dead. She was 73 years old.
Tom Verlaine is dead Saturday 28 in New York City, surrounded by close friends after a short illness, said Cara Hutchison of the Lede Company, a public relations firm.
“Tom Verlaine went beyond what his guitar ever hinted at. He was the greatest rock and roll guitarist of all time and, like Hendrix, he could dance from the spheres of the cosmos to garage rock. It takes a special greatness”, he said. he tweeted Mike Scott of the Waterboys.
Although television was never very commercially successful, Verlaine’s inventive playing as part of the band’s two-guitar attack was influential to many musicians. Television released their breakthrough debut album Marquise Moon in 1977 – including the nearly 11-minute title track and Elevation – and the second album adventure a year later.
“Marquise Moon it has since become something of the holy grail of indie rock. He has had a clear influence on artists like Pavement, Sonic Youth, The Strokes and Jeff Buckley,” wrote Billboard magazine in 2003.
Growing tension between Verlaine and fellow guitarist Richard Lloyd led Television to part ways after their second album. adventure. The group would reunite for an album in 1992 on Capitol Records and sporadic live appearances.
“We wanted to strip everything even more of the show’s theatrics of glitter, blues and boogie bands,” wrote Television co-founder Richard Hell in his autobiography. I dreamed that I was a very clean tramp. “We wanted to be stiff and broken, as the world was.”
Verlaine has released eight solo albums, his most commercially successful being his second, 1981’s Dream time, which peaked at number 177 on the Billboard album chart. She often acted as sidekick to former teammate Patti Smith.
Online tributes included Susanna Hoffs and Billy Idol, who said Verlaine made music that influenced the punk scene in the US and UK. Smith shared a tribute on Instagram, posting a photo of the two together: “Goodbye Tom, high on the Omega.”
Tom Miller was born – he later adopted the surname of 19th-century French poet Paul-Marie Verlaine after meeting Hell, born Richard Meyers, at a Delaware preparatory school. They were tall, thin kids who had given up and gone to the East Village, where they worked in bookstores and wrote poetry together.
“He was known for his angular lyricism and pointed lyrics, a sharp wit and an ability to pluck every string in its truest emotion,” said a statement from his publicist. “Your vision and imagination will be missed.”
Source: Terra

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