Collection: Richard Hell

Richard Hell was born in 1949 in Lexington, Kentucky, where he grew up. At seventeen he dropped out of high school and moved to New York to try to become a poet. He’s been active in small press publishing ever since, but in 1973 he co-founded a rock and roll band and subsequently had much to do with the birth of “punk” as a founding member of the bands the Neon Boys, Television, the Heartbreakers, and the Voidoids. His music albums include Blank Generation and Destiny Street. In 1984 he retired from music and resumed attempting literature. He is the author of several books, including the notebooks collection Artifact, novel Go Now, essays Massive Pissed Love, autobiography I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp, and poems What Just Happened. He lives in New York City.

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