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Television
Part of the New York punk scene of the late 1970s, Television became one of the
city's great cult bands, inspiring the likes of Sonic Youth, The Strokes and
Pavement with their angular, new wave rock. Formed by Delaware school friends
Richard Hell and Tom Verlaine, who fled to the Big Apple with the intention of
becoming great poets, they became regulars at the legendary CBGBs club and grew
up alongside The Ramones, Talking Heads and Blondie, before Hell left to form
The Heartbreakers and The Voidoids. More technically proficient than most punk
acts, the band's classic debut albu...
