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Tom Verlaine of Television, Dead at 73

Patti Smith eulogized that there was no one like him

Tom Verlaine by Paul Bachmann is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Tom Verlaine couldn’t sing for shit.

That sentiment is neither disparaging nor is it mine — Verlaine said it himself in multiple interviews over the years. If anything, that statement was modestly candid and wholly self-deprecating, as he was…