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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Richard Hell, Hell Richard
• Edition: Ecco Press
• Contenu: Livre
• Forme du produit: Livre de poche
• Date de parution: 18.02.2014
• Catégorie: Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Général, dictionnaires
• EAN: 9780062190840
• ISBN: 978-0-06-219084-0
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Dimensions (emballage): 13,7 x 20,5 x 2 cm
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