“Being a rock and roll musician was like being a pimp,” Richard Hell writes in his new autobiography, I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp. “It was about making young girls want to pay money to be near ...

His later band the Voidoids had a defining hit with Hell s song Blank Generation. Time magazine, in 1977, described him as the demon-eyed New Yorker who could become the Mick Jagger of punk. The ...

I had no expectations when I visited Fales Library at New York University to look at Richard Hell’s papers. Hell is widely credited with having innovated what came to be known as “punk” culture by the ...