Richard Hell

ARTICLES IN LIBRARY

Tom Verlaine: How Pleasant (?) To Know Mr Verlaine
Profile and Interview by Nick Kent, NME, March 1977
OPINION: Tom Verlaine is a great songwriter, the next seminal rock charismatic, a genius.
OPINION: Tom Verlaine is an egomaniac, a back-stabber, a thankless paranoid. ...

Richard Hell: Hold Off
Essay by Alan Betrock, ZigZag, July 1977
2:39 Richard Hell and the Voidoids glide into take one of 'The Plan', a quirky composition, supported by subtle mood changes. At 2:43 it's finished.
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Talking Heads: Talking Heads '77; Richard Hell & The Voidoids: Blank Generation
Review by Nick Kent, NME, October 1977
LAST MONTH the more alert London habituee got the chance to compare England's new wave inner-workings with those of its fore-runner over in New York when ...

To Hell & Back
Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, October 1977
"I'M GLAD my name's Hell, because at least those people at the radio stations are gonna have some idea what to expect. I intend to live ...

Richard Hell & The Voidoids, Siouxsie & The Banshees: Music Machine, London
Live Review by Paul Rambali, NME, November 1977
THERE IS something about the Music Machine in Camden Town that severely dulls one's capacity for enjoyment of an evening of live ...

To Hell and Back: Richard Hell
Interview by John Tobler, ZigZag, February 1978
Richard Hell had just got up, and one of the first things he focused on was John Tobler, looming over him with a tape recorder. He ...

Elvis Costello, Richard Hell, John Cooper Clarke: Hammersmith Palais, London
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 1979
Are you ready for the fiiinal soluuuuuuuuuuuuuushun (oh yeah)? ...

Richard Hell: Destiny Street
Review by Mitchell Cohen, Creem, November 1982
SAY YOU AND these other guys used to hang out in this neighborhood, and you all had pretty much the same goals, the same diversions, the ...

Richard Hell
Interview by Cynthia Rose, City Limits, April 1983
This week sees the opening of Smithereens, a low-budget feature film by Manhattan film school grad Susan Seidelman. Initially an experiment shot in 1980, it has ...

Richard Hell: RIP (Rior)****
Review by Bill Black, Sounds, December 1984
"RICHARD HELL HAS been the most emotionally compelling, brilliant, innovative and influential rock 'n' roll performer of the past ten years. Unfortunately, these qualities are evident ...

Robert Quine
Interview by Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever, November 1997
WHO IS ROBERT Quine? According to him, he 'remains one of the most compelling, appalling and universally hated figures in music history.' ...

The Richard Hell Interview
Interview by Ian Fortnam, music365.com, 2000
RICHARD MEYERS, AKA Richard Hell, has more than made his mark on many areas of the media. Musically, he formed Television with Tom Verlaine, the Heartbreakers ...

What Fresh Hell Is This?
Interview by 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 Generation’–much of the incunabula ...

Richard Hell: Hell Is Other People
Interview by Ben Myers, Careless Talk Costs Lives, March 2002
IN HOT And Cold, Richard Hell's new collection of three decades of writing, there's a photo of a young obscure poet called Theresa Stern. She looks ...

The Backpages Interview: Richard Hell
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, March 2002
The original Bowery ripped-shirt nihilist – born plain Richard Meyers in Kentucky – is back with two collections of odds'n'ends: the two-CD Time (Matador) and a ...

Punk's Founding Father, Richard Hell
Profile and Interview by Nick Hasted, The Independent, August 2005
RICHARD HELL was punk's John the Baptist. In one year, 1974, he found the movement its home (CBGB's), created its style (ripped and spiked), indicated its ...

see also Heartbreakers, The

see also Television