Here’s some advice brilliantly worded by Steve Albini: Live your life like Patti Smith will be writing your obit. Case in point, the punk/literary icon’s stunning eulogy to longtime friend Tom Verlaine, the late Television […]
Verlaine was known for his jagged guitar playing style involving heavy vibrato and distortion and off-kilter lyrics. Gus Stewart/Redferns hide caption toggle caption Gus Stewart/Redferns Verlaine was known for his jagged guitar playing style involving […]
Tom Verlaine has died at the age of 73. The punk star was best known as a frontman of the New York City rock band Television alongside Billy Ficca, Fred Smith and Jimmy Rip but […]
Tom Verlaine, frontman, guitarist, and chief songwriter of seminal guitar rock band Television, has died at the age of 73. Verlaine passed away on Saturday following a “brief illness,” according to Jesse Paris Smith, the […]
Verlaine fronted the ambitious and oblique New York band Television, with whom he made two of rock’s most acclaimed albums. Share This Article