Richard Hell Part 1
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Richard Hell is one of the founding fathers of Punk Music. Born Richard Meyers in Kentucky, after dropping out of school he moved to New York with literary ambitions. In 1972 he formed the band 'The Neon Boys' with his schoolfriend Tom Miller and drummer Billy Ficca. The following year the band became 'Television', with Meyers and Miller assuming the names Richard Hell and Tom Verlaine, and they recruited young guitarist Richard Lloyd.
Television discovered the legendary CBGB, the club out of which American Punk music developed, in 1974. During his time in Television, Hell also developed a unique look, wearing battered and torn clothing, which was the key visual inspiration for the Sex Pistols. He left Television in 1975 and joined former New York Dolls Johnny Thunders and Jerry Nolan in 'The Heartbreakers' for a year, before forming his own band 'Richard Hell and The Voidoids'. After recording two albums, the band split, and Hell went into partial retirement, although since the late 1990s he's returned to writing.
In this interview Hell discusses his various influences, Andy Warhol and pre-punk pioneers The Velvet Underground, watching The New York Dolls at Mercer Arts Centre, Television, CBGB, heroin, The Heartbreakers, The Voidoids, and the UK Punk scene.
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I can't think of anyone who was in as many truly great bands as Richard Hell. Television. The Heartbreakers. The Voidoids. He had the hat trick!
What a visionary, he changed the world of music more than most know.
Don't get me wrong Television is great, really great. Bands like Blondie,Talking Heads, Ramones etc.But when I was younger I loved ( and still do) Richard Hell and the Voidoids. I just related to his music more as a young man than some of the other bands of that era. "Let me out of here."
Richard Hell is a smart, interesting person and we do not get many chances to hear from him. Thank you for posting this interview.
@georgeadams5390
2 жыл бұрын
Umm......uh......ummm....uh.......... smart....ummm...... interesting
@chriscoughlin9289
Жыл бұрын
@@georgeadams5390 Why are you conflating glibness with intelligence? Verlaine was notoriously reticent and ill at ease where making pronouncements about his craft - and the whole CBGB mythology - was concerned, too. Should we prepare ourselves for a similarly idiotic, reductionist assessment of HIS legacy next? We’re all on the edge of our seats…
@michaelgraham9774
7 ай бұрын
@georgeadams5390 Yeah that's how a lot of people talk. That's like making fun of a great writer for poor handwriting. Go fuck a cactus
He is really sweet reliable ....hes never wavered from his stance.
Richard Hell is a genius and a treasure. Stop whining about the way he talks and read one of his books.
Super smart dude! love him👊🏻😎💙read his book!!!!
@galetinm
11 ай бұрын
Which one? There's like 9
Dicky Heck!
I like Richard's books too!
ommmmm.
Just finished reading the new book, Richard. Not bad.
>Find: “uum” >Select all >Delete
@towhee89
4 жыл бұрын
please hhahahahahhah
@towhee89
4 жыл бұрын
uuuh
@john807100
Жыл бұрын
That would make this video like 30 sec long
Took me some time to understand that was Richard Hell talking… I first wondered who that guy could well be.
If only Richard and Tom Verlaine would write their autobiographies and tour.
@leahflower9924
2 жыл бұрын
What is his accent though I read he started in Kentucky then Delaware then ny I don't hear any of those accents lol
@Lola-AreaCode212
2 жыл бұрын
Richard Hell has. It's good, too.
@altagraciaadames3483
Жыл бұрын
Well Tommy Boy just passed away to the Great Beyond.
Like some other people here, I want to know what happened to his luxuriant drawl. Did someone step on his larynx?
Does anyone know the provenance of this interview? Like who is giving it and when? Is it made specifically for this channel?
@AmadOwns
7 жыл бұрын
hellverlaine cbgb documentary
@BobbyGeneric145
4 жыл бұрын
Is there a Tom Verlaine segment too?
@altagraciaadames3483
Жыл бұрын
It was made for the history of the origins of Gangsta Rap, and how Richard Hell was the Godfather that spawned it all.
I was saying let me out of here before I was even born it's such a gamble when you get a face.
@MsTullerulle
Жыл бұрын
My absolute favourite opening to a song!
@altagraciaadames3483
Жыл бұрын
If you think you can win 🏆, Come on Man! I was a Green Beret In Vietnam 🇻🇳 Written by Douglas Colvin and sung by Jeffrey Hyman
ummm this is how people really, uhh talk, in a uhhh real life, so uhhh get over it.
When did my beautiful Richard become Ray Romano? Only kind of kidding...I hope it isn't neurological (the verbal things).
@john807100
Жыл бұрын
Lol. A brain disorder that turns people into Ray Romano.
@nolagospeltracts8264
Жыл бұрын
Former chad
@altagraciaadames3483
Жыл бұрын
Hell at least for dangerous stunts. Like walking down the street or sharing an intense scene with AL Pachino, Mr. Hell could be his stunt double 🤔 facts Steven Segal used a stunt double for walking down the street, you can't this stuff up. 🤔
@matthewensign9683
9 ай бұрын
Being that he was a junkie, I'm surprised he cleaned up so well and is still alive.
Ttt ttt tt ttt tt today junior!
I couldn't listen to this because of the 756 "erm" and "umm".
I liked Richard Lloyds interview better.
@altagraciaadames3483
Жыл бұрын
I liked 👍 ♥️ ❤️ 💕 💖 Richard Milhuas Nixons interviews better.
@michaelgraham9774
7 ай бұрын
Richard Lloyd is a good musician but he's so insufferably bitter about everything
Wow. what does this have to do with Richard Hell?
@snipes1000
8 жыл бұрын
+baghead777 Lmao, that is Richard hell.
@baghead777
8 жыл бұрын
yungbenz I don't think so...
@snipes1000
8 жыл бұрын
I know so.
@baghead777
8 жыл бұрын
yungbenz This was so long ago.. I don't remember...
@snipes1000
8 жыл бұрын
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Its weird how todays 20 year olds that like Richard Hells music are mostly middle upper class kids romanticising his era, whereas during his days with the Voidoids his fans were alienated mostly working class kids who. He's popular today with hipsters in New York who are exactly the type who wouldn't have got him in the 70s.
@obscuredestinies
7 жыл бұрын
Richard Hell came from an affluent background and went to a private school. Don't assume!
@fabienh3943
4 жыл бұрын
@Parker that's why John Lydon is punk and The Clash never was 😉
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I have respect for this man, but of course the Velvets were targeted to a pre-existing audience. I don't think Warhol glommed onto them by accident.
@djikopgot
3 жыл бұрын
A pre-existing audience? If the Velvets were created for a pre-existing audience, then they failed miserably. Songs about drugs, prostitution, drag queens and homosexuality did not have a big market in the mid to late 60s. I don’t think you could be more wrong.
@TheIsaac41
3 жыл бұрын
@@djikopgot thats the nature of capitalism, there are always new markets to expand and plunder
@joshbaino3087
2 жыл бұрын
A pre-existing audience, yes, but not necessarily a commercial one
@leahflower9924
2 жыл бұрын
@@djikopgot I didn't know he liked VU not surprising though, I wondered if he ever got with Nico they would've had some tall skinny kids lol
@leahflower9924
2 жыл бұрын
@@joshbaino3087 I saw Lou Reed with my dad at some little club in new York he still had the underground thing going on you think David Bowie or Mick jagger would be at that club nah they had diva status unlike Lou Reed who was singing pale blue eyes etc...
The uhms and uhs is because for him is too much to say about the VU in such short time.
ehhm aaaahmmm umm
Uh hum Uh um um um. Uhm
@eddiestone8124
6 ай бұрын
yer mother
Television buries Richard hell musically, but Richard Hell buries Tom Verlaine intellectually. I just wish Richard was a smoother speaker.
@zaradragonia9863
Жыл бұрын
Who wants two intellectuals playing punk music? The Sex Pistols broke the rules and created a new generation. Hell is a loser with no band and nothing going for him. You lost Hell you drug fucked moron
@steveshattah
Жыл бұрын
I like the way he speaks. Too bad he wasn't a smoother bass player.
@altagraciaadames3483
Жыл бұрын
@zaradragonia9863 the Sex Pistols were an inception of Richard Hell. It's well-documented dear. Essentially no New York Dolls no Ricard Hell equals no Srx Pistols, These are fact not biased opinions. Respect the man and his short but brilliant legacy. Hell most well-established musicians in jolly old England 🇬🇧 acknowledge. And just like Hell the Pistol were also a lightning-in-a-bottle phenomenon that finally blew its tires out in all fuking places San Francisco California. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha 😂 😄 😆 🤣 😉 😀 😂 😄
@reginaayat5390
9 ай бұрын
I disagree. Robert Quines guitar work is unbelievably creative
@michaelgraham9774
7 ай бұрын
They both put out close to the same number of albums in their time despite Television being much more musically active during their time
ummm ahh ummm ah umm I ah rock n roll
Uhm, uhm, uhm, wish he’d get back on junk. He was a lot more, uhm, uhm, uhm … interesting.
@altagraciaadames3483
Жыл бұрын
Your evil, that s what say about Robert Downey Jr
@michaelgraham9774
7 ай бұрын
Go fuck yourself. That's the type of shit someone says who's never seen the effects that hard drugs have on people
this guy writes books? He's flailing.
@alexandermorris4336
3 жыл бұрын
Good books without all the ums haha
@TheNeverposts
3 жыл бұрын
I hope you're right
ummmm
@altagraciaadames3483
Жыл бұрын
Richard went from Hell to become a Tibetan monk Um Um. Remember Allen Ginsburg when being harassed by cops 👮♂️, he use to Um them away.
Lou Reed hated the beatles
@baphometfathom5348
Жыл бұрын
To be fair Lou was a massive contrarian so you never know if he was just saying that lol but I don’t hear a lot of influence from those British bands into their music so I don’t know for sure
@nypete4458
Жыл бұрын
Iggy, is it really you?
@altagraciaadames3483
Жыл бұрын
@baphometfathom5348 Lu Lu was actually their contemporary s, and he didn't really view them with such awe. Remember Lou Reed is old School. He was really close friends with none other than Dion from Dion and the Wanderers.
i love him and his writing, esp the short stories but come on! "Umm, ahh, um, ahh, um, then ahm." Kind of annoying and distracting to hear him jabber on
@ianhorton3469
3 жыл бұрын
At least he’s not Bernard
Sounds like early stage Alzheimers....he`s really incoherent.