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Television onstage at CBGB in 1977.

Photograph: Ebet Roberts

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The Lower East Side in 8 Songs

From blackface minstrels

to the Velvet Underground to virtual reality:

How a gritty neighborhood in New York

always turned out the most vital music.

NYT

Feb. 21, 2020    Updated 9:24 a.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/21/
nyregion/lower-east-side-songs.html

Television, Tom Verlaine

https://www.npr.org/artists/15399136/
tom-verlaine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_(band)

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/29/
arts/music/tom-verlaine-television-songs.html

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tom-verlaine-television-perfectionist-guitar-genius-always-kept-punk-guessing

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/jan/28/
tom-verlaine-a-life-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jan/28/
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dies-at-73

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/28/
arts/music/tom-verlaine-dead.html

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/28/
1152357360/tom-verlaine-guitarist-and-singer-of-influential-rock-band-television-
dies-at-73

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jan/02/
robert-forster-venus-by-television-
is-the-most-perfect-song-of-all-time

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/21/
nyregion/lower-east-side-songs.html

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/nov/17/
television-sage-gateshead-review

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/20/
arts/music/andy-johns-62-rolling-stones-and-led-zeppelin-engineer-dies.html

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=5552242 - July 12, 2006

https://www.npr.org/templates/
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https://www.npr.org/templates/
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https://www.npr.org/2006/05/18/
15961530/guest-dj-tom-verlaine

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popandrock.shopping8

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15961530/guest-dj-tom-verlaine

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/11/
arts/recordings-view-scaled-down-television-returns.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/29/
arts/guitar-tom-verlaine.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/15/
arts/pop-s-plucky-hero.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1984/12/25/
arts/rock-tom-verlaine.html

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arts/the-pop-life-this-verlaine-is-a-poet-of-the-rock-guitar.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1978/06/13/
archives/new-jersey-pages-band-television-rocks-around-two-guitars.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1977/02/25/
archives/new-jersey-weekly-where-to-plug-into-television.html

, Tom Verlaine    1949-2023

(born Thomas Miller)

founding father of American punk

and a fixture of the 1970s

New York rock scene

(...)

"I met Tom when I was a child,

not long after my dad passed away,"

Jesse Paris Smith wrote

in a statement to NPR.

"In him, I felt the energy of a father,

a man to hug, to laugh with,

to share in mischievous jokes

and wild imagination."

Verlaine was best known

as the singer and guitarist

with the influential rock band

Television.

Television's first two albums,

Marquee Moon and Adventure,

were met with great critical acclaim,

if not soaring sales.

These albums laid

the foundation for alternative rock.

Verlaine was known

for his jagged guitar playing style

involving heavy vibrato and distortion

and off-kilter lyrics,

like "Life in the hive

puckered up my night /

A kiss of death, the embrace of life"

from the chorus

of Marquee Moon's titular track.

During a musical career

spanning five decades,

Verlaine also achieved success

as a solo artist.

He collaborated with the likes

of David Bowie and Sonic Youth.

Younger musicians looked up to him,

such as the Dream Syndicate's

Steve Wynn

and Nels Cline of Wilco.

On its last album,

the Canadian indie pop band Alvvays

titled a song after him.

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/28/
1152357360/tom-verlaine-guitarist-and-singer-of-influential-rock-band-television-
dies-at-73

https://www.npr.org/artists/15399136/
tom-verlaine

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/29/
arts/music/tom-verlaine-television-songs.html

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jan/29/
tom-verlaine-television-perfectionist-guitar-genius-always-kept-punk-guessing

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/jan/28/
tom-verlaine-a-life-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jan/28/
tom-verlaine-frontman-and-guitarist-of-us-band-television-
dies-at-73

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/28/
arts/music/tom-verlaine-dead.html

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/28/
1152357360/tom-verlaine-guitarist-and-singer-of-influential-rock-band-television-
dies-at-73

https://www.npr.org/2006/05/18/
15961530/guest-dj-tom-verlaine

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