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Television was an American rock band formed in New York City in 1973. The group's most prominent lineup consisted of Tom Verlaine (vocals, guitar), Richard Lloyd (guitar), Billy Ficca (drums), and Fred Smith (bass). An early fixture of CBGB and the 1970s New York rock scene, the band is considered influential in the development of punk and ...
"Prove It" is a song by American rock band Television. It was released as the second single from their 1977 debut album, Marquee Moon. NME ranked it 40th on the magazine's year-end list of the best singles from 1977. [citation needed]
Recorded at CBGB in 1978, the album was released four years after the band broke up. [7] [8] It contains covers of "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" and "Satisfaction". [9]ROIR allegedly acquired the recording from the fan who had bootlegged the band's shows; The Blow-Up's sound quality is typical of a bootlegged recording.
Richard Lester Meyers (born October 2, 1949), [1] better known by his stage name Richard Hell, is an American singer, songwriter, bass guitarist and writer.. Hell was in several important early punk rock bands, including Neon Boys, Television and the Heartbreakers, after which he formed Richard Hell & the Voidoids.
On the album's sound, Mark Deming of AllMusic writes, "Where Marquee Moon was direct and straightforward in its approach, with the subtleties clearly in the performance and not in the production, Adventure is a decidedly softer and less aggressive disc, and while John Jansen's production isn't intrusive, it does round off the edges of the band's sound in a way Andy Johns' work on the first ...
With its Southern rock influences, [1] "Left Hand Free" is atypical for an Alt-J song, with the band themselves describing it as "the least Alt-J song ever". [2] The song, written by band members Joe Newman, Thom Green and Gus Unger-Hamilton "in about 20 minutes", was built around a riff that Newman would play during rehearsals and features an organ solo from Unger-Hamilton, while Green's ...
Television has been generally well received by critics. Rock critic Robert Christgau wrote, "I prefer the more rocking, songful old Television, but it's a tribute to Tom Verlaine's conceptual restlessness and force of personality that in a world where alternative guitar means making noise or mixing and matching from the used bins, these four veterans have regrouped with a distinct new sonic ...
The music video for "Television Romance" was co-directed by Samuel Burgess-Johnson and Matty Healy, with the latter making his directorial debut. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] [ 22 ] It was released on 18 September 2017 and features the band performing the song in the living room of a residence at a tower block.