I Dreamed I was a Very Clean Tramp: An Autobiography, by Richard Hell

Richard Hell: I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp

The Leonard Lopate Show | Mar 8, 2013

Writer and musician Richard Hell charts his childhood, coming of age, and misadventures as an artist in the era of rock and roll. I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp: An Autobiography is about his journey from the hinterlands into the city in search of art and passion when he was 17. He was a pivotal voice of the age of punk, starting such seminal bands as Television, the Heartbreakers, and Richard Hell and the Voidoids, and he help make CBGB a punk ground zero. 

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