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Tom Verlaine
Born Thomas Miller on December 13, 1949, in Denville, New Jersey, the singer,
songwriter, and guitarist was better known by his stage name Tom Verlaine,
leader of pioneering punk / new wave band Television. Growing up in Wilmington,
Delaware, he began learning the piano and the saxophone as a teenager.
Fascinated by avant-garde jazz, he began learning the guitar, and developed a
style of his own made up of inverted harmonic developments. Also interested in
poetry, he took the last name of French poet Paul Verlaine as his stage name. In
1972, he formed the Neon Boys with bassist R...
