I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp

The autobiography of Richard Hell, icon of an indelible era of rock and roll and “rueful, battle-scarred, darkly witty observer of his own life and times” (The New York Times).

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, cofounding such seminal bands as Television, The Heartbr...