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June 20, 2005

Richard Hell Tells Story

One of New York's original punk rockers revisits the Seventies on "Spurts"
June 11, 2004

Hell Remembers Quine

Head Voidoid talks about his fallen guitar player
October 8, 1998

Painterly Punk

Punk vet Richard Hell to exhibit visual art and prose

Time

The live fire on disc two of the Richard Hell treasury, Time (Matador, two CDs), takes me right back to the first time I saw Hell and his Voidoids at CBGB in 1978, shortly after I moved to New York. In fact, this raw data comes from almost the same time: a demon set from London's Music Machine in...

2002 RS: Not Rated

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Kentucky-born Richard Hell deserves credit (or blame) for originating much of the punk imagery and style associated with the London scene. Musically, though, the Voidoids resemble Captain Beefheart's Magic Band much more than the Sex Pistols. And Hell has never managed to capitalize on his early notoriety.

The sullen, punked-out Blank Generation stings like a casual insult. "Love Comes in Spurts"...

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