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Article: [ FOR a certain generation of music fans... ]
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- Evening Times
- Article date:
- June 24, 2004
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FOR a certain generation of music fans, the name Television still
sends shivers down the spine.
Band founder Richard Lloyd has described the melding of his guitar
sound with Tom Verlaine's as being like "two gears in a clock."
It is precisely that intricate relationship, coupled with
Verlaine's visionary lyrics that have sustained the band's popularity
across quarter of a century when virtually nothing but ardent fans
and devotees kept the Television legacy alive.
The seminal New York new wavers broke up in 1978 after releasing
two massively influential albums, Marquee Moon and Adventure.
But after a gig at David Bowie's Meltdown festival in London and
another in Edinburgh in summer ...