Knowing the history, “Marquee Moon” makes interpretive sense. Verlaine and Patti Smith influenced each other in the early days of the nascent punk scene. Smith wrote about Television for the ...

Geese have covered the likes of Television‘s ‘Marquee Moon’ and Green Day‘s ‘American Idiot’ during their annual Geesefest residency in NYC. The Brooklyn rockers – comprised of ...

Television made two of the Seventies ... I ever catch that ventriloquist/I’ll squeeze his head right into my fist.” “Marquee Moon” is rightly his most famous song, translating the ...

And no one was more effusive than Red Hot Chilli Peppers' bassist Flea. "I listened to Marquee Moon 1000 times," claimed the man born Michael Peter Balzary. "And I mean listened, sitting still ...

and Television’s reunions in the 2000s. During that time, Verlaine found new sounds and modes of expressing “Marquee Moon” every night. “In 45 years of playing this song, in hundreds of ...

Television got their start in the mid-'70s at the iconic Manhattan music club CBGB. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "MARQUEE MOON") TELEVISION: (Singing) There I stand 'neath the marquee moon just waiting.