I was reading about Richard Hell today. The man is an icon and an obscurity, this is all too often the fate of risk takers and inovators.
Richard Hell's career reminds me of an old tv comedy sketch about Orson Wells, he starts as a young man with fame and fortune (War of the Worlds and Citizen Kane), and grows into an oversized parody of himself doing crap commercials for cheap sherry.
Television are rightfully legendary, The Heartbreakers a mistake, and The Voidoids a genius piece of flawed failed art. Blank Generation is a masterpiece.
And I felt....slightly sad for old Richard Hell, but then I realized, he is still a genius. Just a quieter one.
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