Guitarist Tom Verlaine, co-founder of the 1970s band Television has died aged 73 after battling a "brief illness".
His death was confirmed by Jesse Paris Smith, the daughter of Verlaine's past collaborator and ex-girlfriend Patty Smith. In a statement made to American radio station NPR, Paris Smith said that she looked to Tom as a second father.
"I met Tom when I was a child, not long after my dad passed away," she wrote. "In him, I felt the energy of a father, a man to hug, to laugh with, to share in mischievous jokes and wild imagination."
