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 I’d expected someone withdrawn and a little monkish, not this amiably wry character who sees interviews as a chance to perform.
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