"In his poetic memoir, Hell takes us on a tour of a lost world and stakes out his place in cultural history."-Los Angeles Times
"A rueful, battle-scarred, darkly witty observer of his own life and times."-New York Times
The sharp, lyrical, and no-holds- barred autobiography of the iconoclastic writer and musician Richard Hell, charting the childhood, coming of age, and misadventures of an artist in an indelible era of rock and roll.
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.
| ISBN: | 9780062190840 |
| Publication date: | 27th March 2014 |
| Author: | Richard Hell |
| Publisher: | Ecco an imprint of HarperCollins |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 292 pages |
| Genres: |
Music of film and stage Popular music Biography: arts and entertainment Memoirs General and world history History of the Americas Composers and songwriters Musicians, singers, bands and groups Biography: general Fashion and textile design Music |
"In his poetic memoir, Hell takes us on a tour of a lost world and stakes out his place in cultural history."-Los Angeles Times
"A rueful, battle-scarred, darkly witty observer of his own life and times."-New York Times
The sharp, lyrical, and no-holds- barred autobiography of the iconoclastic writer and musician Richard Hell, charting the childhood, coming of age, and misadventures of an artist in an indelible era of rock and roll.
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.
I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp features in the following genres: Music of film and stage, Popular music, Biography: arts and entertainment, Memoirs, General and world history, History of the Americas, Composers and songwriters, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Biography: general, Fashion and textile design, Music
I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp is available in Paperback
I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp was written by Richard Hell and published by Ecco an imprint of HarperCollins
I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp has 292 pages
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