Richard Hell and The Voidoids

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Richard Hell and The Voidoids were an American punk band . They were best known for their nihilistic mood. The song Blank Generation on the album of the same name became an anthem of the New York punk movement.

history

Richard Hell had separated from Television in May 1975 and founded The Heartbreakers with Johnny Thunders and Jerry Nolan , who had left the New York Dolls . In 1976, however, it came to a break and Hell left the band. In the same year he founded Richard Hell and The Voidoids with Robert Quine , Ivan Julian and Marc Bell , who released their first album Blank Generation in 1977 . In the following years, Hell was unable to take pictures due to his drug addiction. Only five years later it was possible to record a second album. Destiny Street was supposed to be the last studio recording, as the band split in the same year. In 1989, Funhunt: Live at the CBGB’s was released, a live album.

While Hell was only heard from once as a musician in the early 1990s, Robert Quine remained known in the music industry as a guitarist with Brian Eno or Lou Reed and Marc Bell as Marky Ramone with the Ramones .

In Ulli Lommel's feature film Blank Generation (1980), the band members appeared as actors. Richard Hell took on one of the leading roles and wrote the script together with Lommel.

Band members

Discography

Albums

  • Blank Generation , 1977
  • Destiny Street , 1979
  • Funhunt , 1989

Singles

  • Another World , 1976
  • Blank Generation , 1977
  • The Kid with the Replaceable Head , 1979

EPs

  • The Neon Boys / Richard Hell & The Voidoids (Part III) , 1980

literature

  • Richard Hell: Death means that you never have to say you are imperfect . Article and interview by Lester Bangs in: Rock Session 2 - Magazine of popular music , p. 112 ff. Rororo non-fiction book 7156, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 1978. ISBN 3-499-17156-2