Music

Tom Verlaine, Founder of Punk Group Television, Dead at 73

R.I.P.

He died “after a brief illness,” according to Jesse Paris Smith, the daughter of musician Patti Smith.

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Alec Karam
Tom Verlaine plays the guitar
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