- Born
- Birth nameLester Meyers
- Height6′ 1¼″ (1.86 m)
- 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).
- IMDb mini biography by: Chris Bright <cbright@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- SpousesSheelagh Bevan(2002 - present)Patty Smyth(1985 - 1987) (divorced, 1 child)
- Daughter, Ruby (born 1986) - mother is singer Patty Smyth (formerly lead singer of the band Scandal).
- Legendary punk rocker; bands: Television, Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers, Richard Hell & the Voidoids
- (1996-) Has now given up music in favour of writing.
- Invented phrase "Blank Generation"
- Rock & roll is trying to convince girls to pay money to be near you.
- [on actress Zoë Lund] I've known a lot of serious drug users, but Zoë was queen. You've got to admire someone as committed to it as she was. She didn't just love heroin... she believed in it.
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