Timeline: The Fat-Elvis Years / RE: (TV) Attn Ms Secret X (& Othe rs)

["Casey, Leo J" <Leo.J.Casey@Volpe.dot.gov>]

> What's the evidence for that? I got the impression she must have split up
> with him before he made Cover (1984), when he stopped smoking for a while.

What you just wrote is confusing.  Maybe I'm just misunderstanding what
you're saying, but if he had stopped smoking for a while she would've been
LESS likely to have broken up --right?

Also, according to my source(s) although Tom tried several times during his
long musical career to give up cigs, there was only one time he succeeded
for any appreciable length of time (1 year), and that was 1984-1985.  I call
these Tom's fat-Elvis-at-the-end-of-the-line years (i.e., Tom's increased
appetite from lack of nicotine).

See the pictures of the fatter-faced Tom on UK 12' 1984 vinyl singles (e.g.,
Let Go The Mansion// Let Go The Mansion (Instrumental version no. 2) /
Lindi-Lu  UK 12" single 45rpm Virgin VS 696-12 1984 , OR 
Five Miles Of You // Your Finest Hour UK 7" single 45rpm Virgin VS 704 1984 

His very nice promo video of "Five Miles of You" also features a much more
robust Tom. 

My favorite though is:  [See Keith's The Wonder Tom Verlaine Quiz, Part 9,
For Madmen (& Women) Only]:
In 1996 a double CD, The Miller's Tale/A Tom Verlaine Anthology, was
released by Verlaine. It contained the only commercially available live
recordings of some of his work (other than the 1982 ROIR cassette and its
subsequent CD), a sample of songs from most of his CDs/records, and some
unreleased studio tracks. The very last page of the liner notes of this 1996
Anthology contained a relatively recent photograph of Tom. It shows him
wearing a black beret while sitting on a metal folding chair playing his
guitar. In this photo his face no longer has its former ascetic, lean, gaunt
look. What happened here? 

a) Tom's been lifting weights 
b) Tom spends too much time eating lasagna and canoli in the small Italian
restaurant, Rocco's, in the West Village 
c) Tom's girlfriend finally convinced him to give up smoking (Export A
cigarettes).  
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