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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.

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Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories Biography: general Biography: arts & entertainment

• Full title: I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp
• Author: Richard Hell
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9780062190840
• ISBN: 0062190849
• ID: 02518659
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
• Weight: 266 g
• Dimensions: 136 × 204 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. March 2014

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