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Television: The Blow Up (ROIR)
Review by Cynthia Rose, NME, December 1982
BACK IN the mid-'70s then-rock journalist Patti Smith penned the following valentine to Tom Verlaine's Television: "Boycott rock and roll on TV – who wants an ...

Prime Time: Television
Retrospective by Tom Hibbert, The History of Rock, 1983
THE RULES OF punk/new-wave music laid down in 1976-77 stated that bands should avoid displays of technical virtuosity, should profess a loathing for rock’s history and ...

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Down In The Scuzz With The Heavy Cult Figures
Report by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, June 1975
C.B.G.B. is a toilet. An impossibly scuzzy little club buried somewhere in the sections of the Village that the cab-drivers don't like to drive ...

New York: The Sound Of '75
Report by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, November 1975
"BEAT ON the brat, beat on the brat, beat on the brat with a baseball bat..." ...

Television: Marquee Moon (Elektra/Asylum)
Review by Nick Kent, NME, February 1977
CUT THE crap, junior, he sez and put the hyperbole on ice. ...

Tom Verlaine: How Pleasant (?) To Know Mr Verlaine
Profile and Interview by Nick Kent, NME, 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. ...

NY Punk
Report by Kris Needs, ZigZag, April 1977
Well, we got through to the second issue despite opposition from the hippies. Anyway, here we are...and it's about time we went Over The Top again? ...

Television: City Hall, Newcastle
Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 1978
I mean, it can’t be that difficult to come up with 800 words on any gig. A beginning, a middle and an end with a couple ...

Television, The Only Ones: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Nick Kent, NME, April 1978
LAST YEAR, Television arrived in Britain under a shower of gilded prose and hyperbole claiming that they were the hottest thing since the invention of electricity, ...

Tom Verlaine: In Search of Adventure
Interview by Dave Schulps, Trouser Press, May 1978
IT HAS BEEN over a year since Television's debut album, Marquee Moon, and for the band's American fans most of that time has been a complete ...

Television: Adventure (Elektra)
Review by Dave Schulps, Crawdaddy!, June 1978
TELEVISION USE the energy and the imagery of the Big Apple, cross-pollinating them with a musical vision akin to what was coming out of the West ...

Knock, Knock, Knocking: Television's Adventure
Review by Deborah Frost, Boston Phoenix, June 1978
HE'S THE KID in the back of every high school classroom - the one you never thought could talk. The one you try to remember (and ...

T.V. Tube Heart: An interview with Tom Verlaine
Interview by John Tobler, ZigZag, July 1978
I get the impression that the first album was the album that the record company wanted you to make and the new album is more the ...

Television (1974-1978)
Obituary by Alan Betrock, New York Rocker, September 1978
SO TELEVISION has broken up and most people want to know why. ...

Life After TV: An Interview with Richard Lloyd
Interview by John Tobler, ZigZag, November 1978
TELEVISION were one of my ultra-favourite groups of the past couple of years. The music they made has always seemed to me to combine the virtuosity ...

The Bowery Beat: CBGBs and All That
Retrospective by Tom Hibbert, The History of Rock, 1982
FROM 1970 ONWARDS, the US rock mainstream grew increasingly staid, predictable and unimaginative. On the surface, the American scene appeared to offer nothing but sleepy West ...

Tom Verlaine: The Venue, London
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, NME, June 1982
WE YOUNG Rimbauds came for diamond spears and the licks of an icepick and went away with a few mangy cardboard boxes. I hope that answers ...

Punk in New York: Blitzkreig Bop
Retrospective and Interview by Mat Snow, NME, February 1986
"And one fine morning she turns on a New York-station / And doesn't believe what she hears at all / She started dancing to that fine ...

Television: Return of the Valve Heads
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, NME, September 1992
HUNCHED AROUND a huge table which dominates the fancily decorated room that their new record company, Capitol, has allocated to them for interviews, the four members ...

Television: One Big Happy Family…
Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, October 1992
...with child abuse, divorce and incest. Television can't agree why they split up and now they can't work out if they've re-formed. "We're still the same ...

Television
Retrospective and Interview by Ira Robbins, Mojo, February 2001
TELEVISION ENDED PRETTY much as they'd begun, with a show at a small Manhattan club. It was July 29, 1978, on a night Television myth incorrectly ...

Gimme Friction: Television at Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, April 2001
ONE MOMENT, more than any other during this one-off London show on Easter Sunday, summed up the nature of the curious rock beast that is Television. ...

Television: Live at Shepherd's Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Nick Hasted, Uncut, June 2001
IT WAS the Sixties that divided London and New York punk: just traces to be kicked over, fathers to be killed, went the official line here, ...

Television
Interview by Fred Mills, Detroit Metro Times, October 2003
"'JAM PUNKS'?!? Uh-oh..." Is the guttural noise coming over the phone line a mock groan or the sound of genuine exasperation? I honestly can't tell, although ...

Television: Marquee Moon (Expanded); Adventure (Expanded) (Rhino)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, January 2004
BEFORE THE Sex Pistols there was New York's Lower East Side: trash aesthetes with short hair, kinky vixens in B-movie stilettos. Kids with minor drug habits ...

see also Richard Hell

see also Tom Verlaine