Richard Hell and the Voidoids' Blank Generation

by Pete Astor

To wander the streets of a bankrupt, often lawless, New York City in the early 1970s wearing a T-shirt with PLEASE KILL ME written on it was an act of determined nihilism, and one often recounted in the first reports of Richard Hell filtering into the pre-punk UK. Pete Astor, an archly nihilistic teenager himself at the time, was most impressed. The fact that it emerged (after many years) that Hell himself had not worn the T-shirt but had convinced...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1623561221
• ISBN13: 9781623561222
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.7" x 6.5"