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I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp: An Autobiography
Richard Hell
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Description for I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp: An Autobiography
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: AVGU; AVH; BGF; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 204 x 20. Weight in Grams: 240.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780062190840
SKU
V9780062190840
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About Richard Hell
Since retiring from music in 1984, Richard Hell has focused primarily on writing. He is the author of the journals collection Artifact; the novels Go Now and Godlike; and the collection of essays, notebooks, and lyrics Hot and Cold; as well as numerous other pamphlets and books. Hell has published essays, reportage, and fiction in such publications as Spin, GQ, ... Read more
Reviews for I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp: An Autobiography
"A rueful, battle-scarred, darkly witty observer of his own life and times."
New York Times "In his poetic memoir, I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp, Hell takes us on a tour of a lost world and stakes out his place in cultural history."
Los Angeles Times "Hell brings to his new autobiography more literary experience than ... Read more
New York Times "In his poetic memoir, I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp, Hell takes us on a tour of a lost world and stakes out his place in cultural history."
Los Angeles Times "Hell brings to his new autobiography more literary experience than ... Read more