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This is the book people have been waiting for Richard Hell to write. Few people were on the inside of the whole New York CBGB’s punk scene as much as Hell and he has something to say about great legends like Patti Smith, Johnny Thunders, and Dee Dee Ramone. Equally of great import are his memoirs of teenage pal Tom Verlaine and The Neon Boys, later Television.
There’s a lot of dope about his band The Voidoids, especially Robert Quine, and even more dope about celebrity girlfriends like Sable Star ...more
There’s a lot of dope about his band The Voidoids, especially Robert Quine, and even more dope about celebrity girlfriends like Sable Star ...more
I'm a fan of Hells' writing. I frequented CBGB's in early '75 and I was lucky enough to catch Television in Hells' last days with the band in April '75. Parts of the book are conversational. My sympathies go out to the girlfriends described herein.
When Hell describes how he felt when running away, starting Television, the liberating power of rock 'n roll and punk rock, he writes such beautiful and ecstatic prose that I had to read some paragraphs again to relish them.
I know some of the people ...more
When Hell describes how he felt when running away, starting Television, the liberating power of rock 'n roll and punk rock, he writes such beautiful and ecstatic prose that I had to read some paragraphs again to relish them.
I know some of the people ...more
Feb 01, 2017
Kathy
marked it as to-read
Dec 19, 2017
cara belt
marked it as to-read
