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UNBELIEVABLE: Richard lloyd - The Untold Story

Television guitarist Richard Lloyd diagnosed with cancer: “It has become very difficult on our own. Financially, we are strapped”

The celebrated guitarist’s condition is not operable at this time

Guitar World

Crowdfunding campaign set up to support Television guitarist Richard Lloyd as he battles cancer

Richard Lloyd played guitar alongside Tom Verlaine on Television's classic Marquee Moon album and its two follow-ups

Louder

Television co-founder battling bile duct cancer

Television co‑founder Richard Lloyd has confirmed he’s battling cholangiocarcinoma, with a new fundraiser detailing his severe health complications and mounting financial strain.

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The families traumatised by ‘evil’ funeral director Robert Bush: ‘My uncle was left in a body bag for 6 months’

Four grieving parents were given the wrong ashes of their stillborn babies, with one foetus later found in a brown paper bag

The Independent UK

Review to examine bank branch closure impacts and identify those most affected

Economic Secretary to the Treasury Lucy Rigby said a ‘clear picture’ is needed of where communities are still losing out.

Evening Standard

Fred Smith obituary

Bass player who provided subtle but potent rhythm and tone to Television on their debut album, Marquee Moon

The Guardian - UK

“David Bowie had to mix him out of his own song because Tom drove him nuts in the studio”: Richard Lloyd on episodes with Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix, and his bittersweet relationship with Tom Verlaine

They lost touch long before Verlaine’s death, but now the guitarist is at peace with those adventures. He reflects on Television, and his memories of backstage lessons with Jimmy Page's tech, and an onstage jam with John Lee Hooker

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“He told me, ‘Come in closer, I’ll tell you the secret of playing electric guitar’”: How an art-punk icon ended up playing with one of the blues’ all-time greats

Pre-Television, Richard Lloyd rubbed shoulders with many guitar stars, and had a rather memorable encounter with John Lee Hooker backstage at one of Boston’s premier jazz venues

Guitar World

Richard Lloyd obituary

Other lives: Champion of the countryside with a joyous passion for nature

The Guardian - UK

“There was the greatest guestlist in rock history – Jimmy Page, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Ronnie Wood, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton and Neil Young”: Jimmy Rip was a session man in demand by Mick Jagger and Tom Verlaine – then came a rock ’n’ roll icon

Armed with the Tom Verlaine’s first guitar, and his own first instrument, the 69-year-old session veteran has come home from Argentina to keep memories alive

Guitar World

"I said, what are you talking about? Just step over Keith Richards?!" The cult of Keef: guitar hero, blues scholar, rebel, survivor, self-parody, genius

How Keith Richards influenced several generations of rock’n’rollers – for better or worse

Louder

‘No easy answer’ to determining salaries for politicians

It comes as Stormont MLAs consider a proposal for a new body to determine pay levels.

The Independent UK

MPs in line for 2.8% pay rise taking salaries to almost £94,000

The proposal, in line with recommendations on wider public sector pay, would see MPs paid £93,904 per year.

The Independent UK

Watchdog moves to simplify rules on MPs’ expenses

Parliamentary watchdog Ipsa has proposed a series of changes, including a move away from ‘mechanistic rule following’.

Evening Standard

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Autosport

Introducing the breakout BTCC star who put the golf clubs away

When the late tin-top specialist Richard Lloyd was racing Volkswagen’s new hot hatch in the British Touring Car Championship in the late 1970s, the German manufacturer used to place adverts in Autosport proclaiming: ‘If you want to succeed in motor racing, take up Golf’.

Autosport

Top 10: Ranking the greatest BTCC drivers not to be champion

The British Touring Car Championship has been one of the most competitive and popular series in the UK since it began in 1958.

Louder

"Transcending both hype and generic pigeon-holing, it is arguably one of the finest recordings of all time": the miracle of Television's Marquee Moon

With poetic concision and angular symphonics, guitarists Richard Lloyd and Tom Verlaine always took the most unorthodox route from one guitar chord to another

Guitar World

Remembering the guitarists we lost in 2023

We had to say goodbye to a staggering number of guitar geniuses this year. We salute those players and their contributions to the instrument

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The story behind every cover version on Ghost’s new Phantomime EP

Everything you need to know about Ghost’s covers of classics by Iron Maiden, Genesis and Tina Turner

The Guardian - UK

When Keir Starmer defended Stonehenge protesters

Brief letters: Right to protest | Hansard | Musical youth | Purrfect pet names

Guitar World

Remembering Tom Verlaine, the cult hero who reconfigured guitar and inspired generations of alt-rock players

Inventive, wiry, elusive, genius, Tom Verlaine's guitar playing was a lightning rod for the artistically bold, and in partnership with Richard Lloyd, it gave Television a unique, thrilling sound

The Guardian - UK

‘They felt like a possible future’: how Brian Eno and I recorded Television’s first demos

In search of the new, Richard Williams – then an A&R man at Island Records – captured early Television in an office block salsa studio. But Tom Verlaine wasn’t impressed

The Guardian - UK

Tom Verlaine obituary

Visionary frontman of Television whose 1977 debut LP Marquee Moon is considered one of the most influential albums of its era

The Guardian - UK

Tom Verlaine: Television’s perfectionist guitar genius always kept punk guessing

A hugely gifted and original musician, Verlaine kept up the exacting standards in his solo career

Tribune News Service

Music legend Tom Verlaine, who delivered one of rock’s greatest album, dies at 73

Tom Verlaine, the acclaimed vocalist-guitarist whose experimental art-rock band Television helped define the New York City punk scene in the ’70s, reportedly died on Saturday.

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