Tom Verlaine, who redefined rock guitar in the punk era of the 1970s with his band Television, has died at the age of 73.
Tom Verlaine performs with his band, Television, in 2019 at Canadian Music Weeks in Toronto. Verlaine died Saturday at the age of 71.Tom Verlaine, who redefined rock guitar in the punk era of the 1970s with his band Television, died Saturday in Manhattan. He was 73.
Critic Robert Palmer noted in “Rock & Roll: An Unruly History” , “When the punk rebellion began taking shape in the mid-seventies, Television in particular carried on the [Velvet Underground’s] legacy of street-real lyrics and harmonic clang-and-drone, with appropriate nods to John Coltrane’s modal jazz and the Byrds’ resonating raga-rock from lead guitarist Tom Verlaine.”
Signed to Elektra Records , Television issued its groundbreaking debut album “Marquee Moon” in 1977; the collection’s 10-minute title track — written by Verlaine, who also played an extended solo and contributed a distinctively throttled, wobbly lead vocal –was an anomaly among the short, intensely focused songs of such CBGB contemporaries as the Ramones and Talking Heads.
He was born Thomas Miller in Danville, N.J., on Dec. 13, 1949. His family relocated to the working class suburb of Wilmington, Delaware, in 1956. A love of symphonic music led him to the piano as a child. In 1963, he took up the saxophone after gravitating to the music of jazz avant gardists Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Roland Kirk and Albert Ayler.
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