Richard Lloyd (born 25 October 1951, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, probably best-known as a former member of the rock band, Television and as one of rock's true weirdos.
Lloyd first became interested in music as a small child and would sit at the age of three or four at a small 28 Key child's piano, playing notes and wondering where they went as the vibrations subsided. When he was a young teenager he ...
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Richard Lloyd (born 25 October 1951, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, probably best-known as a former member of the rock band, Television and as one of rock's true weirdos.
Lloyd first became interested in music as a small child and would sit at the age of three or four at a small 28 Key child's piano, playing notes and wondering where they went as the vibrations subsided. When he was a young teenager he spent his evenings with a transistor radio balanced on his ear and a pillow over his head, searching for intelligent life. When he saw the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show and experienced the phenomenon of Beatlemania, his main interest was anthropological, wondering how four young men would cause mass hysteria worldwide the likes of which could only be matched by world wars. He followed the British Invasion back to its roots in American Blues and Jazz and listened to as much blues and jazz as he could find.
Lloyd attended Stuyvesant High...
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