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Remembering Clive Davis: The ultimate record man and the “soundtrack of our lives”
The music industry has lost one of its most towering architects, legendary music industry executive, star maker, and five-time Grammy Award winner Clive Davis. Clive passed away peacefully at his home in Manhattan at the age of 94. At MUBUTV (Music Business Television), this loss hits incredibly close to home as I have known Clive for 46 years. He was a good friend. I worked for him for 6 years (1981-1987). He gave me my start in this industry.
Richard Hell Reads from Godlike
In this episode of Private Life, Richard Hell reads from his novel Godlike (2005), which was reissued last month by NYRB Classics with a new afterword by Raymond Faye. Godlike tells the story of a poet perambulating downtown Manhattan in the 1970s and pining for a young poet who probably won’t love him back, closely mirroring the doomed romance between the nineteenth-century French poètes maudits Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine.
Richard Hell on Godlike and Poetry as a Way of Life
In this episode of Private Life, Richard Hell joins Jarrett Earnest to discuss his novel Godlike (newly reissued by NYRB Classics), his creative process, the love of poetry, and the stories behind his work. Click the “Subscribe” link in the player above to follow this podcast on your favorite listening platform. Richard Hell is a writer and former musician best known as a pioneer of the punk rock scene in 1970s New York.
Not Another Rock ’n’ Roll Poet
“The first couple of issues were terrible. We were publishing students from the class and writing to people, arbitrarily seeking contributions,” Hell said. “We wrote to Allen Ginsberg. He sent a poem and we rejected it because it didn’t have the level of craftsmanship. We just didn’t have a clue.” Ginsberg mailed an angry postcard in response; a few years later, he moved into an apartment directly below Hell’s, and the two remained neighbors until 1996.
Richard Hell on Doo-Wop and Documentaries
The punk musician and writer shares three recommendations Richard Hell. Photo: Nick Waplington. In the new column Read/Watch/Listen, Artforum asks artists, writers, and other tastemakers to share three pieces of media—text, video, and audio—worth paying attention to. For the first installment, musician and writer Richard Hell gives us his recommendations.
Why AI’s most critical role in 2026 will be rescue, not creation
We may earn an affiliate commission for sales made via ads/links on this page. The recent landmark ruling won by GEMA against OpenAI serves as a critical reality check. It confirms that AI operators must comply with copyright law and obtain licenses. This is a massive victory; it establishes the legal right to compensation, which is the bedrock of our industry. However, viewing this legal victory as the finish line is a dangerous mistake. It is merely the starting gun. Jacob Varghese / Noctil
Smithereens 1982 1080p BluRay x264-OFT
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Advanced Supply Chain Planning: The Only Way To Beat Rising Costs In A Competitive World
This article is part of our "Planning for Success" series on supply chain planning and operations. Global supply chain management has been buffeted by a number of headwinds in recent years, leading to rising costs and increased competition – a trend we expect will continue going forward. Ongoing geopolitical tensions in Ukraine and the Middle East are disrupting supply chains and challenging visibility on the reliability of trade routes in the near future.
Christopher Wool: See Stop Run
ArtSeen New York 101 Greenwich See Stop Run March 14–July 31, 2024 Christopher Wool could be said to have had three periods as an artist so far. First was the New York City era (circa 1985–99) of the austere/sloppy/funny/aggressive black-and-white word and pattern paintings, mostly in glossy enamel paint and/or silkscreen ink on aluminum or linen or paper, along with a separate continuing series of rough, unpeopled, hazy but high-contrast urban street-photographs and/or photobooks.
Complete Collection of the Hanuman Book Series 50 Volume Set One volume signed from Patti Smith to Tom Verlaine by Hanuman Books, Candy Darling, Patti Smith, Richard Hell on Capitol Hill Books
Madras & New York: Hanuman Books, 1986-1992. Near Fine. Item #28764 Madras & New York: Hanuman Books, 1986-1992. First Editions. 50 volumes, complete. All but one volume 16mo; Ricard's "God With Revolver" in octavo format. Original photographic jackets over printed wraps. Light rubbing to jackets and short tear to crown of David Hockney's "Picasso" (Vol. 31).
What Just Happened
In WHAT JUST HAPPENED, Richard Hell’s new poems are interspersed with images created for the book by Christopher Wool. Hell’s 2019 valedictory of an essay, “Falling Asleep,” which asserts his dreamy conclusions regarding the nature of reality, and “Chronicle,” a list drawn from his recent years’ notebooks, complete the collection.
Who You Staring At?: Visual Culture of the No Wave Scene in the 1970s and 1980s at the Centre Pompidou Paris
By LARA PAN, May 2023 One of the smallest but most interesting exhibitions marking 2023 is Who You Staring At?: Visual Culture of the No Wave Scene in the 1970s and 1980s, now at the Centre Pompidou Paris (Level 4) until June 19th. It is wonderfully curated by Nicolas Ballet, a media art historian and curator at the new media department there. The title of Ballet’s show borrows its title from Who You Staring At?, a 1982 Giorno Poetry Systems LP with John Giorno and Glenn Branca.
My Godard
Sketch by the author circa 1977-78. First, I’m sad about his death. It feels like the death of a parent. And one whose every move I craved to know, and loved, though he was 91. He was still the one to learn from. That’s what I’m going to try to write about: what I feel I’ve learned from him. The first thing I remember gleaning was that it was possible to make glamorous art that was intellectual.
Lou Reed: Caught Between the Twisted Stars
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts presents Lou Reed: Caught Between the Twisted Stars, the first large-scale exhibition from Reed’s archive which the Library acquired in 2017. The exhibition displays the life and work of the icon whose profound influence—musically, visually, and culturally—still affects a range of artists and writers today. The exhibition is free to all—no library card, ticket, or appointment is needed to view the exhibition at this time.
Text, Prose & RocknRoll: Track 31
45 min Kris sits down with punk rock legend, Richard Hell. 45 min
Richard Hell: Eight Poems from What Just Happened — Caesura
ArtWritingPoetry Feb 8 [“I write better poems than anyone”] I write better poems than anyone and the way you can tell is by attending the tiny hairs until infinite love. People say “love.” Its most general definition would be ego dissolved by reality, which is also possibly why it gets paired with death. Flies have hair and are named for their most conspicuous property. “I heard a Fly buzz — when I died — ” Buzz means fly.
A little old, a little new - WORLD
Under a Mediterranean Sky by Steve Hackett: Sixty orchestral seconds into the opening track, Hackett’s nylon-stringed guitar makes the first of its many appearances, setting the tone for what follows: a strikingly elegant evocation of the wide-open spaces the album’s title promises—an evocation that has much more in common with the traditional classical-guitar repertoire than it does with Hackett’s progressive-rock youth. Not that he has shed all traces of pop.
リチャード・ヘル＆ヴォイドイズ 1982年の2ndアルバム『Destiny Street』 2021年最新リマスター＆修復/ニューミックスによる2CDコンプリートエディションがOmnivore Recordingsより登場
DESTINY STREET REMIXED 01． The Kid With The Replaceable Head 02． I Gotta Move 03． Going Going Gone 04． Lowest Common Dominator 05． Downtown At Dawn 06． Time 07． I Can Only Give You Everything 08． Ignore That Door 09． Staring In Her Eyes 10． Destiny Street 11． Don't Die [Bonus Track] DESTINY STREET DEMOS – 2021 REMASTER 12． The Kid With The Replaceable Head (Single Version) 13． I'm Your Man (Single Version) 14． Crack Of Dawn (Demo Version) 15． Going Going Gone (Demo Version) 16． Funhunt (Demo...
Summer Guide 2009 - Writers on Their Most Memorable Warm-Weather Flings -- New York Magazine - Nymag
June 15, 2009 Simon and Jessica Kissing in the Pool, Avignon, 2001Photo: Nan Goldin The Girl Who Cursed My Sex Life By John Wray My Dealer’s Girlfriend By Richard Hell Wet T-Skirt Contest By Shalom Auslander “Don’t Worry.
Downtown Legend Richard Hell Interviews Nan Goldin About Art, Opioids, and the Sadness of Life on the Fringes
Nan Goldin made her name with photographs of her friends in their habitat of downtown New York tenement apartments and nightlife clubs in the late ’70s and early ’80s. The pictures in The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1985) represent a lost paradise to many. There’s no question, though, that looking at them is as eerily melancholy as it is inspiring, and not just because bohemian New York is gone and that we witness the era of the onset of AIDS, but because the pictures hide nothing.
Richard Hell: Confessions of a Book Collector
Richard Hell, at home with his books. Recbeca Smeyne I went up to the New York Antiquarian Book Fair the other week. I’ve collected books since I was a teenager. When I was a little boy I collected birds’ nests. There’s something about collecting that’s connected to childhood — amazement at the world, maybe, generating a desire to possess it…in acts of undercover self-definition.
Hell on The Ramones (1976)
The Ramones are cagey boys. Forest Hills, Queens was the first cage, now it’s Manhattan. (Tomorrow, the world.) The city may be a jungle but to the Ramones it felt more like a zoo. They were all brought up in Forest Hills, a neighborhood that apart from a certain exaggeration in scale and proximity to New York City looks and feels like 9/l0th’s of the populated territory of the modern USA (sounds like a German corporation).
The Heartbreakers – Chinese Rocks
I wrote that song outta spite for Richard Hell, cause he told me he was gonna write a song better than Lou Reed’s “Heroin.” I went home and wrote “Chinese Rocks.” I wrote it by myself, in Debbie Harry’s apartment on First Avenue and First Street.
Iceage announce new album, release Sky Ferreira collaboration
Iceage have announced that they will release their fourth album, ‘Beyondless’, on 4 May. They’ve also released new single ‘Pain Killer’, featuring Sky Ferreira. The song is the band’s first to ever feature a guest vocalist. As well as Ferreira’s input, like all the best albums, ‘Beyondless’ comes accompanied by an essay from Richard Hell.
Picabia, Nihilism, and Searching for Meaning In Art in 2017
This is going to be a little bit dark and weird, but I can’t help it: it’s 2017. The universe doesn’t care about us! Maybe 2018 will be better. (Those numbers look weird. I don’t want to count from Christ.) But I was asked about what book or movie or art exhibit affected me most this past year, and what came to mind was the Picabia show at MoMA. I was amazed by the show. I loved it and learned from it and I’m still thinking about it.
Richard Hell on collaboration
Collaborations have been significant for me my whole work life. It was through a collaboration that I determined it was time to play music. The book of poems Wanna Go Out? was published in 1973, attributed to Theresa Stern. It was written in 1971 when I was 21. It’s a collaboration with Tom Verlaine. I’d been struggling to write a good poem since I was 17—and it was a struggle. I would produce this or that, which I thought I did well enough, but I didn’t feel satisfied with any of it.
Richard Hell, By the Book by Harriet Staff
Brett Sokol checks out Richard Hell's book collection and discusses the punk singer's journey from poet to punk singer, and back again, in an article published yesterday at the New York Times. Upon his arrival to New York City at age seventeen, Hell "found himself gravitating toward the writers of 'The Mimeo Revolution'" Sokol explains.
Richard Hell: Confessions of a Book Collector
I went up to the New York Antiquarian Book Fair the other week. I've collected books since I was a teenager. When I was a little boy I collected birds' nests. There’s something about collecting that’s connected to childhood — amazement at the world, maybe, generating a desire to possess it…in acts of undercover self-definition. It's the classic need to own "pure" beauty and so be reflected there, subtly sabotaged by the realization that nothing is owned that isn't internal.
Raucous, Disorderly Downtown | by Richard Hell
Following the mid-twentieth-century triumph of New York’s Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, and their cohort of Abstract Expressionists and Color Field painters, what could the next generation of American artists do? New York had become the new capital of art after a hundred years of Parisian dominance: Could we sustain?
Hell Is Other People
Speak, memory: “Nan’s pussy got damp but not soaking wet,” the musician Richard Hell recalls late in his new autobiography, I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp. “It was slick, like a squeaky rubber duck.” There are many shivery, illicit pleasures in this louche memoir of bygone bands and lost downtown haunts, including the author’s anatomically vivid, clinically surreal descriptions of past conquests.
Richard Hell Reviews HBO’s Vinyl
Vinyl, Martin Scorcese and Mick Jagger’s much-hyped series about record company men in early ’70s NYC, premiered last night on HBO. Stereogum turned to punk luminary and author Richard Hell (Television, the Heartbreakers, Richard Hell & The Voidoids) to assess the first episode. As it turns out, the frontman of the show’s fictional group the Nasty Bits is based at least partly on Hell. Jagger’s son James, who plays the singer named Kip Stevens, said as much in a recent interview.
The New York Times
I also probably should have wondered about the implications of how my intended made it a condition of her acceptance that I see a psychiatrist. But I didn’t wonder, I agreed to see the shrink. I didn’t tell him much. Why would I? I hardly knew him. I didn’t have an engagement ring. It wasn’t that kind of proposal. It was a sort of negotiated proposal that emerged across a few dramatic weeks. Ultimately, she did accept, though. I had an idea about the ring.
Richard Hell Fights the Repression of NYC's Bohemian Scene
For years now there has been a lot of wistful, sometimes bitter nostalgia amongst artists and adventurous youth for the New York of the ’70s and ’80s—Cookie Mueller’s era. She has become legendary as an emblem of a period of bohemia perhaps only rivaled here in freedom and inspiration by the ’50s, when Pollock and DeKooning were making New York the capital of the world for painting, Miles Davis and John Coltrane et al.
Bloodshot's 2014: Our Opinions (Artists & Staff)
Marc Maron said it best: "Ranking artists and making lists is a dead culture's version of intellectualism." Well, we're holding onto that dead culture with cold, lifeless fingers. It’s that terrific/terrible time of year in which we think about the things we didn’t find to be trite, monotonous drivel and give thanks for the things that made us hold a little flame of hope for this world. 2014 was a year of…well, we’ll let our artists and the Bloodshot staff detail what made 2014 unique.
Book Review - 'Rimbaud - The Double Life of a Rebel,' by Edmund White - NYTimes.com
More aspects of Rimbaud are known than can be assimilated: his vastly various, influential and innovative poetry itself; his expressive letters; his scornful and unhesitating permanent abandonment of poetry at the age of 20; the anecdotes of his contemporaries showing him as a drunken, filthy, amoral homosexualteenager who becomes a reserved, hard-working, responsible and respectable (if misanthropic and disgust-ridden) adult merchant and explorer.
No Fun | AllMusicBooks
I can't say that I'm at all surprised that the abiding impression Richard Hell's autobiography left me with was of a rather dour, self important, quite humourless man. Didn't you have ANY fun during the '70s Lower East Side/CBGB's era, Rich (I know some people who were there who had a ball)? I know you were a junkie and that your music never really made you a dime, but still....
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