Television singer, guitarist and songwriter Tom Verlaine has died at age 73 after an unspecified brief illness. The New York Times reports the news was confirmed by Jesse Paris Smith, the daughter of Verlaine’s friend and fellow artist Patti Smith.
Television was one of several influential bands to emerge from New York City’s fruitful mid-’70s music scene. They built a following by performing regularly at CBGB, the club that also helped give birth to the Ramones, Blondie and Talking Heads.
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