Richard Hell left high school in the mid-1960s and moved to NYC to become a poet. He actually was published before becoming one of the most important parts of punk music history. A member of Neon Boys, Television, and Johnny Thunder's Heartbreakers, this album, his band's debut, is essential. The title track essentially defines the NYC punk scene. He also unintentionally influenced the British punk scene, when Malcolm McLaren witnessed Richard's style - the torn shirts, the safety pins (Hell had a ripped t-shirt with a target on it and the scrawl 'Please Kill Me' which is the title of the definitive non-fiction book about American punk by Legs McNeill and Gillian McCain.) McLaren fashioned the Sex Pistols after Hell's style.
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