Richard Hell's autobiography

[schwenko]

Richard Hell recently gave a reading in Austin, TX of excerpts from his autobiography.
Here is part of a report by one attendee as posted on the Television mailing list:

"richard said he had just sold his autobiography, to echo, who did "just kids"
with such success (and, he said, the steven tyler autobiography -- so who the
hell knows). the work seems to be more or less finished -- so i think there's
a good chance we will see it within a year or so. just a guess.

i was really impressed with the text. i think this may be a sort of male
counterpart to "just kids" -- well written, from the same period, and a very
different perspective (IIRC, patti didn't spend much time on descriptions of
breasts, or make multiple references to blonde pubic hair, or what can be done
with a "granite-like cock").

the first reading dealt with early TV, with a small, casual tom diss/aside, no
mention of RL. mostly just a very beautiful description of what it felt like
to make that music. richard did talk at length later about peter laughner,
which i really appreciated. another section dealt with his relationship with
lizzier mercier, which i didn't know anything about.

he said he needed to end the book far enough in the past so as not to totally
piss off anyone he is close to today. so it ends around 1984-85, when he got
off dope and out of music. he seems to have come to the conclusion that he
had become a completely hideous dope fiend, a stereotype, and a man without
values. so he changed course."

btw that's Lizzy Mercier


Sugoi !!!

[schwenko]

http://www.observer.com/2011/10/down-at ... ife-story/

Sugoi !!!

[toyah]

I'll be curious to see how he details his attempt to take over The Heartbreakers, Johnny Thunders' band after Thunders and Jerry Nolan left The New York Dolls during the Malcolm McLaren period, as Hell has bolted Television round about the same time..