What Fresh Hell Is This?
David Dalton, Gadfly, 2002
RICHARD HELL was the primal Punk, the ur-Punk: the spiky-haired one. The torn t-shirts, the safety pins, the era-defining Blank Generationmuch of the incunabula of Punk came from him.
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