Tom Verlaine, co-founder of Television, which helped put New York club CBGB on the map in the 1970s and continues to influence ambitious rock bands today. (Kerstin Rodgers / Redferns) Tom Verlaine, the singer and guitarist who fronted the singular, ambitious and oblique New York band Television, with whom he made two of rock’s most acclaimed albums, died Saturday in Manhattan. He was 73. Verlaine’s death was confirmed to The Times by his former manager, John Telfer, who stated that it… Source link
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