“His vision and his imagination will be missed.”
The influential musician died on Saturday in New York City, surrounded by close friends after a brief illness, as confirmed by the PR firm the Lede Company.Though Television never found much commercial success, Verlaine’s jaggedly inventive playing as part of the band’s two-guitar assault influenced many musicians while playing at ultra-cool New York music venue CBGB, alongside the Ramones, Patti Smith and Talking Heads.
Television issued their groundbreaking debut album Marquee Moon in 1977, including the nearly-11-minute title track and Elevation.Richard E. Aaron via Getty Images “Marquee Moon has become something of a holy grail of independent rock in the years since. It has been a clear influence on such artists as Pavement, Sonic Youth, the Strokes and Jeff Buckley,”Increasing tension between Tom and fellow guitarist Richard Lloyd led Television to disband after their second album.
The group would reunite for a self-titled 1992 album for Capitol Records and sporadic live appearances. “We wanted to strip everything down further, away from the showbiz theatricality of the glitter bands, and away from blues-iness and boogie,” Television co-founder Richard Hell wrote in his autobiography, I Dreamed I Was A Very Clean Tramp.Tom went on to release eight solo albums, his most commercially successful being his 1981 solo album Dreamtime, which peaked at number 177 on the Billboard album chart.
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