Richard Hell
Birthday: 1949-10-02
Place of Birth: Lexington, Kentucky
Biography: Richard Lester Meyers, better known by his stage name Richard Hell, is an American singer, songwriter, bass guitarist and writer. Richard Hell was an innovator of punk music and fashion. He was one of the first to spike his hair and wear torn, cut and drawn-on shirts, often held together with safety pins.
Movies
Geek Maggot Bingo or The Freak from Suckweasel Mountain
From the warped mind of underground auteur Nick Zedd comes this campy horrorfest that follows screwy...
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Smithereens
A narcissistic runaway engages in a number of parasitic relationships amongst members of New York's ...
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NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell
New York City, 1977 - It was a time when the city had fallen into decay, with too few jobs, money, p...
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Ramones: We're Outta Here!
Documentary covering The Ramones' long and eventful history, with footage from their final ever show...
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Llik Your Idols
Discover the New York underground scene during the 80s and throw yourself into an exciting, anarchic...
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Wild Thing
A documentary about The Troggs (performers of Wild Thing) and other Rock bands....
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Two Sevens Clash: Dread Meets Punk Rockers
Documentary about reggae music and culture in London in 1977. Filmed in Super 8 camera by Don Letts....
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Blind Light
A photographer (Edie Falco), a Swedish author (Per Myrberg) and a filmmaker experience a moment of s...
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Desperately Seeking Susan
A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in...
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Hey! Is Dee Dee Home?
Punk rock devotees will welcome director Lech Kowalski's reflective video portrait of late bassist D...
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What About Me
After a family tragedy, a young woman finds herself homeless and living on the streets of New York....
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The Blank Generation
The cream of the New York new wave/punk crop, filmed live at CBGB when the scene was just beginning....
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Oil City Confidential
Director Julien Temple's film celebrates Canvey Island's Dr Feelgood, the Essex R 'n' B band that ex...
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Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets
Maria Beatty's documentary exploring the insights and influences of the American Beat Poets. The fil...
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Sadness at Leaving
Following the erection of the Berlin wall, special agent Carl Halman is assigned by East German inte...
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Punking Out
The film documents the beginning of the punk rock movement in New York City at CBGB's, a punk night ...
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Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
An East Village performance space fought against the Bowery homeless shelter who threatened to shut ...
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Punk Revolution NYC
This documentary film traces the entire history of New York's punk movement; the VU years, the Warho...
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Blank Generation
Nada, a beautiful French journalist on assignment in New York, records the life and work of an up an...
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You Don't Know Ivan Julian
Since the inception of punk rock in New York, Ivan Julian has enjoyed a long and storied career as o...
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Once Upon a Time in New York: the Birth of Hip Hop, Disco and Punk
How the squalid streets of '70s New York gave birth to music that would go on to conquer the world -...
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