![]() ![]() Then, in 1976, he formed Richard Hell and the Voidoids – the missing link between the artily ambitious Television and the cruder Bowery rock of the Heartbreakers. He stayed with the Heartbreakers for a year – long enough, given the band's legend as a band who played for dope money. He'd formed Television with his boarding school friend Tom Verlaine in 1973 after leaving Television in 1975, he joined Johnny Thunders, formerly of the New York Dolls, in the Heartbreakers. that period when that record was being made was a particularly bad phase."īy the time Destiny Street emerged in 1982, Hell's place in the New York junkie-punk pantheon was assured. ![]() ![]() I'd been living like that for four or five years by then pretty much, and it would have phases and cycles. I might hear a noise behind me and I'd jump out of my skin! I knew I was fucking myself up I just didn't know how to stop. I'd end up shooting coke around the clock and get so freaked and paranoid that I couldn't tolerate the idea of stepping out into the street. "I was strung out on dope," remembers Hell today, his Southern drawl betraying his Kentucky roots. ![]()
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