Prove It

"Prove It"
Single by Television
from the album Marquee Moon
Released	1977
Format	7"
Recorded	A & R Studios, NYC
Genre	Art punk
Length	5:05
Label	Elektra
Writer(s)	Tom Verlaine
Producer(s)	Andy Johns Tom Verlaine
Television singles chronology
"Marquee Moon" (1977) "Prove It" (1977) "Foxhole" (1978)

"Prove It" is the second single from American rock band Television's debut album, Marquee Moon, released in 1977. It was released as a single with "Venus" on the B-side and became the most successful of their three hit singles in the UK.^{[citation needed]} Despite entering at a (then) relatively high position of number 28, it only got up to number 25 and dropped out of the Top 40 after another week at number 29.^{[citation needed]}

Like its preceding single, "Prove It" was a staple of Television's early live shows, often as a set closer.^{[citation needed]} The lyrics, reflecting upon a detective story, echo the movie The Long Goodbye which came out a few years before Marquee Moon.^{[citation needed]}

Although the song has never been covered on record, the riff of "Prove It" was used by X as the basis for their song "Adult Books" on their 1981 album Wild Gift.^{[citation needed]}

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