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Richard Hell (born Richard Lester Meyers; October 2, 1949) is a singer, songwriter, bass guitarist, and writer.
Richard Hell was an innovator of punk music and fashion. He was one of the first to spike his hair and wear torn, cut and drawn-on shirts, often held together with safety pins.Malcolm McLaren, manager of the Sex Pistols, has credited Hell as a source of inspiration for the Sex Pistols' look and attitude, as well as the safety-pin and graphics accessorized clothing that McLaren sold in his London shop, Sex. Hell was in several important, early punk bands, including Neon Boys, Television, and The Heartbreakers, after which he formed Richard Hell & The Voidoids. Their 1977 album, Blank Generation, influenced many other punk bands. Its title song was named "One of the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock" by music writers in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame listing and is ranked as one of the all-time top-ten punk songs by a 2006 poll of original British punk figures, as reported in the Rough Guide to Punk.
Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist, who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses.
Called the "Godmother of Punk", her work was a fusion of rock and poetry. Smith's most widely known song is "Because the Night", which was co-written with Bruce Springsteen and reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978. In 2005, Patti Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture, and in 2007, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. On November 17, 2010, she won the National Book Award for her memoir Just Kids. She is also a recipient of the 2011 Polar Music Prize.
'Blank Generation' Television live at CBGBs 1974
Richard Hell - Blank Generation (Live CBGB's 1975)
Richard Hell - Blank Generation
THE BLANK GENERATION trailer - Official NY punk - CBGB, Ramones, Talk Heads, Patti Smith, Blondie
RICHARD HELL & The Voidoids * Blank Generation * @ CBGB´s 1979
Blondie: Platinum Blonde/Out In The Streets (Blank Generation 1976)
Television - Little Johnny Jewell & O Mi Amore
Richard Hell & Voidoids - Blank Generation (Studio version)
Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Blank Generation
Television Live at CBGB, January 1975 - UFO - very rare tune.
On top of the hour (compulsive my behaviour)
I see my life through sky news (keeping things in order)
Keep on watching on my wide-screen set
Can't contain myself
I'm going pay-per-view
Think I'll explode (in the corner of my room)
If I do too much gak (sits my one big eyeball)
It's with the advent of this pay-per-view
Can't control myself
I scratch my knee
I have to scratch the other
(this is sky news) documentaries are the best
Thru' my t.v., through my t.v.
All my problems come
I study quite hard (in the corner of my room)
When I should be in bed (sits my one big eyeball)
I'm in the open university
A constant imprint of the test card on my eyes
I think I should rest (compulsive my behaviour)
Sleep on one side and then the other (keeping things in order)
Always searching for the abilene