To wander the streets of a bankrupt, often lawless, New York City
in the early 1970s wearing a T-shirt with PLEASE KILL ME written on
it was an act of determined nihilism, and one often recounted in
the first reports of Richard Hell filtering into the pre-punk UK.
Pete Astor, an archly nihilistic teenager himself at the time, was
most impressed. The fact that it emerged (after many years) that
Hell himself had not worn the T-shirt but had convinced junior band
member Richard Lloyd to do so, actually fitted very well with
Astor's older, wiser self looking back at Blank Generation. Richard
Hell was an artist who could not only embody but also frame the
punk urge; having seeded and developed the essential look and
character of punk since his arrival in New York in the late 1960s,
he had just what was needed to make one of the defining records of
the era. This study combines objective, academic perspectives along
with culturally centred subjectivities to understand the meanings
and resonances of Richard Hell and the Voidoids' Blank Generation.
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