Marquee Moon
Television · 1977
Marquee Moon is Television's debut, recorded at A&R Recording in New York in November 1976 after the CBGB regulars spent years turning down record deals they judged wrong for them. Produced by frontman Tom Verlaine and engineer Andy Johns, it favours interlocking guitar lines and extended structures over the blunt riffs of the punk scene the band emerged from, and its influence on the rock guitar playing that followed has far outpaced its modest original sales.