Tom Verlaine of the rock band Television dies at 73

Verlaine’s death was confirmed by Jesse Paris Smith, Patti Smith’s daughter, in an obituary dated Saturday, Jan. 28 and obtained by TODAY.com. The late musician died peacefully in New York City after an unspecified “brief illness” and was surrounded by his close friends.

Jesse Paris Smith noted that Verlaine and her mother have shared years of memories that have ended up “bonding them forever.” Tom Verlaine of Television performs on stage at Hammersmith Odeon, London, May 28, 1977. He is playing an Ampeg Dan Armstrong guitar.Though the group’s lineup changed over the years, the legacy of the band and their first album “Marquee Moon” would live on, even earning the No. 107 spot on“500 Greatest Albums of All Time” list, in part for the"cryptic electricity and strangled existentialism of guitarist Tom Verlaine’s voice and songwriting.

Patti Smith backstage with Tom Verlaine of Television before performing at the event "Arista Records Salutes New York with a Festival of Great Music” at City Center. September 21, 1975.Jesse Paris Smith publicly mourned his death on Saturday, Jan. 28, sharing two black and white photos of Verlaine on“Dearest Tom. The love is immense and forever,” she wrote in part. “My heart is too intensely full to share everything now, and finding the words is too deep of a struggle.

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