“Having a legacy is better than not having one,” says Richard Lloyd, who along with co-guitarist Tom Verlaine, helped turn Television into one of the most influential and respected bands to come out of New York City’s mid-Seventies punk-rock scene. “I never get tired of hearing people say they appreciate what we did way back when. We weren’t a ‘one-hit wonder,’ but we were certainly a ‘wonder.’”
Television’s debut album, 1977’s Marquee Moon, might have failed to light up the U.S. charts (it never even cracked the Billboard 200), but it turned the heads of critics, who hailed the intricate, fluid and improvisational guitar playing by Lloyd and Verlaine as a groundbreaking combination of jazz, blues and garage rock. “I knew we were doing something special on that record,” Lloyd says. “It was simple in terms of production, but it was honest music played with heart. I think that’s what’s made it sort of timeless.”
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