Background
According to the liner notes of the 2003 reissue, Television originally wanted to record Marquee Moon with veteran jazz recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder (John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, and most of the classic Blue Note Records catalog) at his legendary Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey recording studio.
The title track was done in one take; drummer Billy Ficca thought that they were rehearsing. The album was dedicated to William Terry Ork, on whose label, Ork Records, the band's first single ("Little Johnny Jewel (Parts 1 & 2)") had been released. The album cover features a portrait of the band taken by Robert Mapplethorpe.
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