Richard Hell
- Actor
- Writer
- Composer
Singer and bass guitarist in the Neon Boys and Television with
schoolfriend Tom Verlaine, NYC mid-to late
1970's. Credited by many with inventing the "look" of punk rock -
ripped clothes, spiky hair etc, he claims influenced by a portrait of
French poet Arthur Rimbaud. Expelled from Television for musical
incompetence/independent thought (delete to taste) he briefly joined
the Heartbreakers with ex New York Doll Johnny Thunders before forming
his own band, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, with Robert Quine, Ivan
Julian (guitars), Marc Bell (aka
Marky Ramone, drums).
