Одна из самых любимых групп и исполнителей,в свое время получивших славу
в 70-х годах. А также знаменитый Ричард Хелл,он же Ричард Майерс,он же актер,он же писатель,он же музыкант.что еще про него сказать?хороший человек.нет,этого ,пожалуй,мало.Он Человек.
Richard Hell (born October 2, 1949) is a professional name of Richard Meyers, an American singer, songwriter, bass guitarist and writer.
He is probably best-known as frontman for the early punk rock band Richard Hell & The Voidoids. Their 1977 album, Blank Generation, influenced other early punk bands. The title song is cited as being among the top ten punk songs, for instance, in the book Rough Guide to Punk (2006), by all the various early British punk figures polled in the book: Glen Matlock, original Sex Pistols bassist and composer of most of their music; Mark Perry, founder and editor of the first and best British punk fanzine, Sniffin' Glue, as well as founder of punk group Alternative TV; Geoff Travis, founder of Rough Trade, the main British punk record shop and early label; and Kris Needs, editor of ZigZag magazine and its famous Rock Family Trees.
Hell was an originator of the punk fashion look, the first to spike his hair and wear torn, cut and drawn-on shirts, often held together with safety pins. Malcolm McLaren, designer of the Sex Pistols, has said Hell was the inspiration for the Sex Pistols' look and attitude, as well as the safety-pin accessorized clothing McLaren sold in his London shop, Sex. (Members of the Sex Pistols dispute this.)
Since the late eighties Hell has devoted himself primarily to writing, publishing two novels, as well as several other books. He was the film critic for BlackBook magazine from 2004-2006.
Biography
Early life and career
Hell grew up in Lexington, Kentucky in the 1950s. His father, a German Jew from mid-19th-century immigrants, grew up in Pittsburgh, and was an experimental psychologist, researching animal behavior. He died when Hell was seven years old. Hell was raised by his mother, descended from Welsh and English farmers near Birmingham, Alabama. After her husband's death, she returned to school and eventually became a teacher.
Hell attended a private boarding school in Delaware for one year (the 11th grade) where he became friends with Tom Miller (later Tom Verlaine). They ran away from school together and were arrested in Alabama for arson vandalism a short time later.
Hell never finished high school but moved to New York City to make his way as a poet. In New York he bought a used table-top offset printing press and began publishing books and magazines under the imprints Genesis : Grasp and then Dot Books. Before he was twenty-one his own poems were published in numerous periodicals, ranging from Rolling Stone to the New Directions Annuals.
The Neon Boys, Television, and the Heartbreakers
In 1969, Verlaine joined Hell in New York and they eventually formed the Neon Boys. Their 1973 self-titled single is arguably the first punk song. Not long after, they changed their name to Television.
Television's performances at CBGB helped kick-start the first wave of punk bands, inspiring a number of different artists including Patti Smith who wrote the first press review of Television for the Soho Weekly News in June of 1974. She had an affair with Tom Verlaine, and formed a highly successful band of her own (the Patti Smith Group). Television was the band that convinced CBGB owner Hilly Kristal to book rock bands at his club, and they built its first stage.
Hell started playing his song "Blank Generation" during his stint in Television. In 1975, Hell split (or was fired from) Television after a dispute over creative control. Hell claimed that he and Verlaine had originally divided the songwriting evenly but later Verlaine favored his own songs. Verlaine remains characteristically silent on the subject.
Hell left Television the same week that Jerry Nolan and Johnny Thunders quit the New York Dolls and the three of them formed a band called The Heartbreakers (not to be confused with the later Tom Petty band). After a few shows Walter Lure joined as a second guitar player.
The Voidoids
A year later, in early 1976, Hell quit The Heartbreakers and started Richard Hell & the Voidoids with Robert Quine, Ivan Julian, and Marc Bell. The band released two albums, though the second, Destiny Street, was a less successful lineup that retained only Quine from the original group, and suffered from Hell's distractions, narcotics especially, during recording, as he himself has described. Richard's best known songs with the Voidoids were "Blank Generation" (the title track of the group's original album), "Love Comes in Spurts," "The Kid With the Replaceable Head," and "Time".
Dim Stars and Hell's books and further life
Hell's last major musical work to date was in the band Dim Stars in the early '90s. Dim Stars was considered something of an indie rock supergroup,
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