Name: I dreamed I was a Very Clean Tramp
Brand: Richard Hell

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2014-02-28

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Richard Hell

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Music

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Harper Collins

Richard Hell is an American singer, songwriter, bass guitarist, and writer. Born on October 2, 1949 in Lexington, Kentucky, USA. He has made significant contributions to the punk rock movement with his unique style and rebellious attitude.

Influenced by artists such as *Johnny Thunders*, *New York Dolls*, and *The Modern Lovers*, Richard Hell's music embodies the raw energy and DIY ethos of the punk scene. As a founding member of bands like *Television* and *The Heartbreakers*, he helped shape the sound of punk rock in the 1970s.

Aside from his musical endeavors, Richard Hell is also a talented writer. His memoir "I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp" offers a candid glimpse into his life as an artist during this influential era. With his distinctive fashion sense and provocative lyrics, Richard Hell continues to inspire generations of musicians and fans alike.

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 Debby Harry—is a mesmerizing chronicle of self-invention, and of Hell's yearning for redemption through poetry, music, and art. An 

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