(TV) Review of Sonic Transmission

[Graham Urquhart <gurquhart@madasafish.com>]

Brief review in todays (19th August) Guardian:

Sonic Transmission: Television, An Illustrated History - Tim Mitchell

'The subtitle is pushing its luck a bit: the "illustrated" aspect of 
this biography of the recently reunited seminal 1970s art-rockers 
comprises a dozen pages of black-and-white photographs and reproductions 
of album sleeves and posters. Still nobody ever appreciated Television 
for their good looks, and this slim - and rather optimistically priced - 
volume does a serviceable job of telling the story of Richard Hell, Tom 
Verlaine and the band from the beginning to end. It is common among 
low-budget rock biographies which are, essentially, a collage of 
cuttings for the author to over-compensate by slathering the pages with 
opulently purple prose. Mitchell, to his credit, resists this 
temptation, assembling the facts with a modest lightness of touch. A 
genuine and insightful appreciation of the music also radiates gently 
throughout. Will likely provoke a certain amount of rummaging in attics 
for dog-eared copies of Marquee Moon.  (Andrew Muller). Glitter Books 
#11.95.
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