When Television broke up for the first time in 1978, Verlaine immediately launched a solo career. His self-titled debut, released in 1979, picks up where Adventure left off. Half the tracks began life ...

Tom Verlaine, a founding member of the band Television, has died. He was 73. Verlaine’s death was confirmed by Jesse Paris Smith, Patti Smith’s daughter, in an obituary dated Saturday, Jan. 28 and ...

Co-founder and guitar player for punk rock group Television, Tom Verlaine, is dead at 73 according to reports. The musician passed away in New York City alongside friends after suffering from a brief ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Verlaine, guitarist and co-founder of the seminal proto-punk band Television who influenced many bands while playing at ultra-cool downtown New York music venue CBGB alongside the ...

Tom Verlaine, guitarist and co-founder of the band Television who, along with the Ramones, Patti Smith and Talking Heads, influenced a generation of musicians and helped shape America's alternative ...

Tom Verlaine, the inimitable guitarist, punk iconoclast, and Television frontman who died on Saturday (Jan. 28) at 73, knew how to make a first impression. Television’s first album, 1977’s Marquee ...