# I Dreamed I was a Very Clean Tramp

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- Authors: [Richard Hell](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-hell)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2027-05-20

## Description

From an early age, Richard Hell dreamed of running away. He arrived penniless in New York City at seventeen; ten years later he was a pivotal voice of the age of punk, co-founding such seminal bands as Television, The Heartbreakers, and Richard Hell and the Voidoids - whose song 'Blank Generation' remains the defining anthem of the era, an era that would forever alter popular culture in all its forms. How this legendary downtown artist went from a bucolic childhood in the idyllic Kentucky foothills to igniting a movement that would take over New York and London's restless youth culture - cementing CBGB as the ground zero of punk and spawning the careers of not only Hell himself, but a cohort of friends such as Tom Verlaine, Patti Smith, the Ramones, and Debby Harry - is a mesmerising chronicle of self-invention, and of Hell's yearning for redemption through poetry, music, and art. An acutely rendered, unforgettable coming-of-age story, I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp evokes with feeling, lyricism, and piercing intelligence both the world that shaped him and the world he shaped.

## Editions

### I Dreamed I was a Very Clean Tramp

- Publisher: White Rabbit
- ISBN: 978-13-9965-051-9
- Published: 2027-05-20
- Language: en_GB

### I Dreamed I was a Very Clean Tramp

- Publisher: White Rabbit
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-13-9965-052-6
- Published: 2027-05-20
- Language: en_GB