Born Thomas Miller, Verlaine — who died on Saturday at 73 — renamed himself after a symbolist poet, Paul Verlaine, and he built his songs around guitar patterns that interlocked like cats ...

He adopted the stage name Tom Verlaine in honor of the French 19th century Symbolist poet Paul Verlaine after moving to New York City in the late 1960s. Verlaine developed a cult following ...

“Farewell Tom, aloft the Omega.” Born Thomas Miller, Verlaine (who adopted his last name from the French poet Paul Verlaine), was high school classmates with fellow punk icon Richard ...

The punk rocker, born Thomas Miller, adopted his stage name after French symbolist poet Paul Verlaine. Verlaine performing on stage at Hammersmith Odeon, London, on April 16, 1978. Redferns ...

where they took on their stage names (Verlaine's being inspired by French poet Paul Verlaine) and formed the proto-punk trio Neon Boys with drummer Billy Ficca. The group quickly disbanded before ...

The discovery of a rare picture of the tragic, handsome poet, made by his lover Paul Verlaine, set off a bidding war in Paris. By Marisa Meltzer The story sounds like the plot of a novel.

Tom Verlaine, frontman for iconic punk band Television ... is said to have borrowed his stage name from the French poet Paul Verlaine). The two eventually escaped to New York where, along with ...

Tom Verlaine is a stage name - it is meant to reference French symbolist poet Paul Verlaine. Television was a fixture of the local New York rock scene. The band never received nationwide notoriety ...

They suffered the harsh homophobia of their time. They are the French Oscar Wildes. Getty Images Paul Verlaine is currently buried in a cemetery off the Paris ring road "It is a question of simple ...

It was used by Rimbaud's lover, fellow French poet Paul Verlaine, during a heated argument between the pair in Brussels on 10 July 1873. The revolver sold for more than seven times the estimate ...

Verlaine was born Thomas Miller in New Jersey, but adopted his stage name in homage to the French symbolist poet, Paul Verlaine. After Television split, he released a string of solo albums ...

They suffered the harsh homophobia of their time. They are the French Oscar Wildes. Paul Verlaine is currently buried in a cemetery off the Paris ring road "It is a question of simple justice to ...