I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp An Autobiography

Richard Hell

eBook - 2013

The autobiography of Richard Hell, icon of an indelible era of rock and roll and "rueful, battle-scarred, darkly witty observer of his own life and times" (The New York Times).From an early age, Richard Hell dreamed of running away. He arrived penniless in New York City at seventeen; ten years later he was a pivotal voice of the age of punk, cofounding such seminal bands as Television, The Heartbreakers, and Richard Hell and the Voidoids—whose song "Blank Generation" remains the defining anthem of the era, an era that would forever alter popular culture in all its forms.How this legendary downtown artist went from a bucolic childhood in the idyllic Kentucky foothills to igniting a movement that would take over New York... and London's restless youth culture—cementing CBGB as the ground zero of punk and spawning the careers of not only Hell himself, but a cohort of friends such as Tom Verlaine, Patti Smith, the Ramones, and Debbie Harry—is a mesmerizing...

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Published
HarperCollins
Language
English
Main Author
Richard Hell
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Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
Kindle Book
ASINB0089LOFHQ
Release Date5/21/2024
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9780062190857
Release Date5/21/2024