SAN FRANCISCO - Tom Snyder, who pioneered the late-late network TV talk show with a personal yet abrasive style and his robust, trademark laugh, has died from complications associated with leukemia. He was 71.

Snyder had John Lennon’s final televised interview (April 1975) and U2’s first U.S. television appearance in June 1981.

Here’s U2’s first U.S. television appearance in June 1981.

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