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! Read ^ I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp: An Autobiography by Richard Hell É eBook or Kindle ePUB. I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp: An Autobiography An acutely rendered, unforgettable coming-of-age story, I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp evokes with feeling, lyricism, and piercing intelligence both the world that shaped him and the world he shaped.. 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, a
| Title | : | I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp: An Autobiography |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.67 (611 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0062190849 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-02 |
| Language | : | English |
A compelling and entertaining memoir by a punk-rock pioneer. From an early age, Hell knew what he wanted: a “life of adventure.” He remembers growing up in suburban America in the 1950s and feeling like an outsider. He eventually made his way to New York. From Booklist Richard Hell (born Richard Meyers in Lexington, Kentucky), the punk-rock musician with the seminal punk bands Television and the Voidoids, presents an autobiography that ends in the early 1980s, when Hell stopped playing music and became a full-time writer. Hell is a fine writer and full of self-knowledge, and part of the pleasure of this randy, drug-addled memoir are his descriptions of New York during the bad old days when crime was rampant and the streets filthy. He writes about the jobs he had (including stints in such iconic bookstores as Got
An acutely rendered, unforgettable coming-of-age story, I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp evokes with feeling, lyricism, and piercing intelligence both the world that shaped him and the world he shaped.. 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. From an early age, Richard Hell dreamed of running away
"I was very disappointed in this book" according to shelley. I was very disappointed in this book. I guess I was expecting to read more about the music and art scene of nyc in the 70's, in more depth than was provided. I feel as though I know everything about all of his sexual conquests though. Not impressed. I'm sure he has more to offer as an artist in terms of experiences and memories. It would've been nice to read about them.. "Five Stars" according to Barbara G. Bucci. The real deal. "Sex pervades everything, it seems" J. Hundley I confess up front to being very excited to get ahold of this book. Richard Hell was an important part of an important era of music at a time when I was most actively involved in music myself and the NY underground scene was pivital in my own musical development. The Ramones, Patti Smith, and most significantly, Televsion created music that profoundly influenced me as both listener and practitioner. That Hell is an intelligent, thoughtful commmentator and writer only upped the ante.I now confess disappointment. That Hell decided to end his book at the point he jettisoned active music making and drug addiction (in
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