Tom Verlaine, singer and guitarist for seminal art-punk band Television, dies at 73

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Jesse Paris Smith, daughter of musician Patti Smith, confirmed Verlaine’s death to the New York Times. She did not specifiy a cause of death, saying that Verlaine died “after a brief illness.” Although Television first attracted attention at the punk rock club CBGB, Verlaine wasn’t a fan of punk, which he described as “just amped-up bubblegum with angrier lyrics.” Among other things, punk bands eschewed solos, which Verlaine and fellow guitarist Richard Lloyd did not.

The first two Television albums — “Marquee Moon,” released in 1977, and “Adventure,” a year later — were enough to cement the band’s enduring legend. But the records didn’t sell and the band broke up, reuniting for a third album, called “Television,” in 1992 before disappearing again. They toured sporadically, even after Lloyd left in 2007, frustrated at Verlaine’s unwillingness to record new music.

Television’s music introduced ideas that hung around rock music for decades. Subsequent generations of musicians seemed to base their styles on one song or even part of one; the bridge to the stupendous ten-minute song “

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