Richard Hell was a founding member of the early CBGB bands Television, the Heartbreakers, and Richard Hell & the Voidoids. His Voidoids album Blank Generation (Sire, 1977) is generally acknowledged as seminal to “punk.” Hell retired from music in 1984. He has published journalism in Spin, Bookforum, the New York Times, Esquire, the Village Voice, Art in America, and many other outlets. He was the film critic for BlackBook from 2004–2006. He’s the author of an autobiography, I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp, and the novels Go Now and Godlike, as well as the collection of essays, journals, and lyrics Hot and Cold. His most recent book is Massive Pissed Love: Nonfiction 2001–2014. He lives in New York and is at work on a new novel.
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Biography via Criterion.
