From an early age, Richard Hell Dreamed of running away.
How this legendary downtown artist went from a bucolic childhood in the idyllic Kentucky footh.
He arrived penniless in New York City at seventeen; ten years later he was a pivotal voice of the age of punk, cofounding such seminal bands as Television, The Heartbreakers, and Richard Hell and the Voidoids--whose song "Blank Generation" remains the defining anthem of the era, an era that would forever alter popular culture in all its forms.
From an early age, Richard Hell Dreamed of running away