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Played bass guitar in the Neon Boys and Television with old schoolfriend Tom Verlaine, NYC mid-to late 1970's. Credited by many with inventing the "look" of punk rock - ripped clothes, spiky hair etc, he claims influenced by a portait of French poet Arthur Rimbaud. Expelled from Television for musical incompetence/independent thought (delete to taste) he briefly joined the Heartbreakers with ex New York Doll Johnny Thunders before forming his own band, the Void-Oids, with Robert Quine, Ivan Julien (guitars), March Bell (drums).
Legendary punk rocker; bands: Television, Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers, Richard Hell & the VoidoidsInvented phrase "Blank Generation"Daughter, Ruby (born 1986) - mother is singer Patty Smyth (formerly lead singer of the band Scandal ).