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Thomas Joseph Miller (December 13, 1949 – January 28, 2023), known professionally as Tom Verlaine, was an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter, best known as the frontman of the New York City rock band Television.
Jan 29, 2023 · Born Thomas Miller, Verlaine — who died on Saturday at 73 — renamed himself after a symbolist poet, Paul Verlaine, and he built his songs around guitar patterns that interlocked like cats’...
- Jon Pareles
Apr 6, 2023 · Tom Verlaine, who died on January 28, 2023, had an approach to playing guitar that was never easy to describe. Post-punk, art rock, art punk, whatever; it was one of Verlaine’s great creative achievements that over three studio albums with Television, and a prolific solo career, he was able to unshackle his style from labels.
- Jonathan Horsley
Feb 2, 2023 · The death of Tom Verlaine on Jan. 28, at age 73, has inspired eulogies from countless artists whose own work has stretched the boundaries of rock. As the frontman, guitarist and chief songwriter for Television, Verlaine was an icon of the New York punk scene that developed at CBGB, yet he never fit neatly under any particular genre ...
Jan 29, 2023 · Friends, peers and famous fans are paying their respects to late Television frontman Tom Verlaine, who died on Saturday (January 28), in New York, aged 73. Television were one of the most acclaimed and influential bands from the New York punk scene of the 1970s, and the esteem in which Verlaine was held is evident in the outpouring ...
- Paul Brannigan
Jan 30, 2023 · Patti Smith remembers her friend Tom Verlaine, the front man and guitarist for the band Television, in the wake of Verlaine’s death, on January 28th.
Jan 29, 2023 · Tom Verlaine, a founding father of American punk and a fixture of the 1970s New York rock scene, died Saturday in Manhattan as the result of a brief illness. He was 73.
