The original junkie-punk Richard Hell revisits Destiny Street

The original New York junkie-punk, Richard Hell, has taken another go at recording the album he was too wasted to do justice to the first time round. He talks to Paul LesterThirty years ago, there were two notorious punk bass players with monstrous aliases and reputations to match. The British one, Sid Vicious, had just overdosed on heroin and died in an apartment in New York. His US counterpart, Richard Hell, was in London, in the grip of an addiction to hard drugs that threatened to destroy h...

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