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Tom Verlaine: Words from the Front

Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 28 February 1987

TOM VERLAINE, the blank generation’s very own Neil Young, is sitting on the floor of a Phonogram press suite devouring a croissant. I’d expected someone withdrawn and a little monkish, not this amiably wry character who sees interviews as a chance to perform.

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