I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp

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 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.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Hell, Hell Richard
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 18.02.2014
• EAN: 9780062190840
• ISBN: 978-0-06-219084-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 205 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Punk, Rock and Roll, Rock, Biography: general, Memoirs, General and world history, History of the Americas, The Americas, Biography: arts and entertainment, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Personal Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Music, MUSIC: Genres & Styles / Rock, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Rich & Famous, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Fashion, MUSIC: Genres & Styles / Punk, HISTORY: Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), MUSIC: Essays, HISTORY: Essays, MUSIC: Genres & Styles / Musicals