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Tom Verlaine, the influential guitarist, songwriter, and frontman of \u201970s art-rock greats Television, has died. The information was confirmed by Jesse Paris Smith, the daughter of Patti Smith, who mentioned he died \u201cafter a brief illness.\u201d Verlaine was 73. <\/p>\n
Born Thomas Miller in Denville, New Jersey in 1949, Verlaine grew up in Delaware and started taking part in music at an early age, beginning with piano and switching to saxophone after taking an curiosity within the music of Stan Getz. He took up guitar after stepping into the Rolling Stones, and in highschool he was shut with future punk-rock figurehead Richard Hell.<\/p>\n
Hell and Verlaine moved to New York City, the place Verlaine modified his final title in reference to the French symbolist poet Paul Verlaine. With Hell, Verlaine shaped the short-lived proto-punk band Neon Boys, who broke up and reformed as Television.<\/p>\n
Television introduced on guitarist Richard Lloyd and began gigging across the metropolis at CBGB and Max\u2019s Kansas City. In 1975, Hell left the band and Fred Smith changed him. Verlaine additionally dated Patti Smith (no relation) round this time.<\/p>\n
The band launched two albums \u2014 their 1977 debut Marquee Moon<\/em> and 1978\u2019s Adventure<\/em> \u2014 earlier than breaking apart in 1978, then reunited to file a self-titled album in 1992. They have carried out collectively sporadically ever since.<\/p>\n In addition to his work with Television, Verlaine launched a prolific solo profession. He launched ten studio albums, together with his 1979 self-titled debut and 2006\u2019s Around<\/em>. Over the final 4 a long time, Verlaine collaborated with quite a few artists, together with taking part in guitar on Luna\u2019s Penthouse<\/em> (1995). He additionally steadily reconnected with ex-paramour Patti Smith, taking part in guitar on her Grammy-nominated \u201cGlitter In Their Eyes\u201d from her 2000 album Gung Ho<\/em>; \u201cFireflies\u201d from her 1996 album Gone Again<\/em>; on her debut single \u201cHey Joe,\u201d and \u201cBreak It Up\u201d from her debut album Horses.<\/em> Verlaine additionally performed on Smith\u2019s eleventh and most up-to-date album Banga<\/em> (2012), showing on \u201cApril Fool\u201d and \u201cNine.\u201d<\/p>\n Likewise, periods Verlaine famously produced for Jeff Buckley previous to his 1997 demise had been excerpted on the 1998 posthumous album Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk<\/em>.<\/p>\n Verlaine was additionally a part of the supergroup Million Dollar Bashers, which featured Sonic Youth\u2019s Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley, Wilco\u2019s Nels Cline, Bob Dylan bassist Tony Garnier, guitarist Smokey Hormel, and John Medeski. In 2012, Verlaine teamed up with Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha on his second solo album, Look To The Sky<\/em>.<\/p>\n