You don't get a more
punk history than Richard Hell.
Co-founder of the Neon
Boys and Television with Tom Verlaine during those early formative
punk years in the early 70's. Member of the first incarnation of The Heartbreakers with
Jerry Nolan and Johnny Thunders and co-writer of the classic
'Chinese
Rocks' with Dee Dee Ramone.
Punk rock owes a
massive debt to Richard hell - poet, writer & musician. His spiky haired
and
ripped clothes look was 'borrowed' by Malcolm McLaren. His tune
'Blank Generation'
was adopted by the punk generation and anglicised in the Sex Pistols song
'Pretty Vacant.'
And while never perhaps delivering the killer punch always promised Hell's
importance to punk and its aftermath should never be understated. |
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