Lloyd in 1981.
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Richard Lloyd, co-founder and guitarist of the band Tv, died at age 75, the New York Occasions stories. He was recognized with cholangiocarcinoma in March. Lloyd was an integral a part of New York’s CBGB scene — a music membership within the East Village the place many punk musicians obtained their begin. Tv was no totally different. The band on the time (Tom Verlaine, Richard Hell, Billy Ficca, and Lloyd) started performing in New York, largely at CBGB, and paved the way in which for extra rock bands to carry out on the membership. “There have been only a few locations to play, and there have been no locations to play in case you performed authentic music,” Lloyd informed Consequence Sound in 2023. “That is what we had been up towards. If you happen to had been fortunate, you may get a gap slot as soon as each six months on the Backside Line or one thing. Being a neighborhood act taking part in authentic music was simply remarkable.” Ultimately, Hell left the group earlier than the discharge of their first album, Marquee Moon, an album nonetheless considered the most effective rock albums of all time and the blueprint for alt rock music.
Tv broke up shortly after their second album, Journey, in 1978. Lloyd launched three solo albums earlier than the band reunited in 1991 to launch their final album — Lloyd launched 9 solo albums in his lifetime. He left the band in 2006 to deal with his solo work and taught guitar privately to college students in New York.
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