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was a guitarist and singer of influential rock band Television.
Tom Verlaine
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He was founding father of an American punk and a fixture of the 1970s New York rock scene.
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Jesse Paris Smith
Confirmed by
Who is daughter of Verlaine collaborator Patti Smith.
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Jesse Paris Smith wrote in a statement to NPR
"I met Tom when I was a child, not long after my dad passed away,"
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Patti Smith
also once dated the artist.
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Verlaine was known as the singer and guitarist with the influential rock band Television.
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In honor of the French 19th century
He adopted the stage name Tom Verlaine after Symbolist poet Paul Verlaine moved to New York City in the late 1960s.
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Jimmy Rip
A guitarist and Television member
wrote in a statement to NPR
"Tom and I had an hysterically funny conversation that lasted the last 42 years," "He was blindingly smart, incredibly well read as well as surreally silly! Standing 10 feet away onstage night after night year after year and STILL trying to figure how he did what he did was the great honor [and] pleasure of my life."
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