Tom Verlaine, singer and guitarist for punk legends Television who crafted the band’s 1977 masterpiece 'Marquee Moon,' has died at the age of 73
Jesse Paris Smith, the daughter of Patti Smith, confirmed Verlaine’s death Saturday following a “brief illness” to. “He died peacefully in New York City, surrounded by close friends. His vision and his imagination will be missed,” Smith wrote.
Born Thomas Miller, Verlaine , was high school classmates with fellow punk icon Richard Hell, with whom he’d later form his earliest bans with. Arriving in Manhattan’s Lower East Side at the dawn of punk, Verlaine and Hell first teamed up for the short-lived act Neon Boys before co-founding Television in 1973 alongside guitarist Richard Lloyd.
Verlaine and Television honed their sound as one of the premier acts at the legendary punk clubs like CBGB — establishing one of the earliest residencies at that venue — and Max’s Kansas City. Patti Smith -who once likened Verlaine’s guitar sound to “” – was in the audience for one of Television’s early shows in 1974, and split the bill with Television when the Patti Smith Group made their CBGB the following year.
Hell would soon leave Television to join fellow punk act the Heartbreakers. With Verlaine and Lloyd at the reins, the duo formed developed a guitar sound that merged punk riffs with jazz interplay.
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