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Tom Verlaine Without TV: The New Season

Roy Trakin, New York Rocker, September 1979

THE BREAK-UP of a band, in the wake of our experience with the Beatles and countless others, should no longer be a traumatic event, but there certainly was cause for anguish among local fans when Television decided to call it a day, dissolving the matchless dueling guitars on Richard Lloyd and Tom Verlaine.

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