Tom Verlaine: How Pleasant (?) To Know Mr Verlaine
Nick Kent, NME, 26 March 1977
OPINION: Tom Verlaine is a great songwriter, the next seminal rock charismatic, a genius.
OPINION: Tom Verlaine is an egomaniac, a back-stabber, a thankless paranoid.
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