Tom Verlaine Dies: Influential Guitarist For Punk Group Television Was 73

Tom Verlaine Dies: Influential Guitarist For Punk Group Television Was 73

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Tom Verlaine, whose Television band was one of the more influential groups on the New York Punk scene in the 1980s, died today at 73 in Manhattan. Jesse Paris Smith, the daughter of Patti Smith, announced the death, attributing it to “after a brief illness” in her statement. . Television was not a…

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