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>> the ramones are part of a wider new york scene. >> you had people like patti smith. >> im an artist. rock n roll is my art. >> the new york dolls. >> the dead boys. >> rock and roll anybody can play. >> and richard hell. >> richard hell was one to cut his own hair. ripping his clothes and safety pinning them together. >> he was the king of the punks. the safety pin thing, for instance, is his. its pretty clear he invented that. ♪ hey, ho, lets go >> punk in the united states is a statement ...

>> anthony: cheap rent brought a lot of people together. it wasnt just living spaces were cheap. there were venues where you could put whatever it was you did out there where -- >> richard: yeah, cbgbs didnt exist until we created it. i mean, we went and proposed that we be the house band there. >> this is terrific. this next numbers called "i belong to the blank generation". 1, 2, 3. ♪ >> anthony: and then, your band, the voidoids. what were your expectations? >> richard: i wanted everything ...

So many people didnt get recognized. richard hell is still living in the same apartment he lived in 40 years ago. >> danny: who likes to move in new york? youve got a good deal, the neighborhood got all better around him, you know? iggy was supposed to be the one who didnt make it most of all. and hes still there, the most dangerous. god sends us these signs that there are miracles, dont give up hope, what you believe is beautiful probably is. not everyone will know it, in time. ♪ love you lik...

Cutting their hair like me. and you have this inadvertent tectonic affect on kids all over the world. >> richard: it wasnt inadvertent, but it was indirect. i mean, i wanted to have that effect. other bands who responded to the way i was doing things got famous. so it ended up having this huge impact and influences. when i first saw the picture of the sex pistols, it was like, i just had to laugh. >> anthony: thats a charitable interpretation of events. malcolm mclaren came to new york, and saw ...

I mean, was it special? >> richard: i think the creation of the mythology of the 70s kind of began in the mid-90s. i can see why people who werent there wish they were there. but it goes against all my instincts to think that way just because, the idea is, we didnt like the way things were, so we decided to change them. >> woman: why are you here tonight? >> man: i guess were just interested to see whats going on. we saw, i think it was the "new yorker." more or less just to see what was happeni...

>> richard: be out of it. >> anthony: you came here first as a writer, as a poet. new york in your mind is where the writers life was. >> richard: yeah, well, it was just a place that had the most stimulation. >> anthony: was music even in the back of your head or was poetry and writing? >> richard: my model was dylan thomas when i was a teenager. you know, so being a drunken womanizer. that was my ambition. ♪ >> anthony: you woke up in your own lifetime, open up a paper, and realized like a m...

But it was funny and strange. >> anthony: cheap rent brought a lot of people together. it wasnt just living spaces were cheap. there were venues where you could put whatever it was you did out there where -- >> richard: yeah, cbgbs didnt exist until we created it. i mean, we went and proposed that we be the house band there. >> this is terrific. this next numbers called "i belong to the blank generation". 1, 2, 3. ♪ >> anthony: and then, your band, the voidoids. what were your expectations? >>...

I mean, was it special? >> richard: i think the creation of the mythology of the 70s kind of began in the mid-90s. i can see why people who werent there wish they were there. but it goes against all my instincts to think that way just because, the idea is, we didnt like the way things were, so we decided to change them. >> woman: why are you here tonight? >> man: i guess were just interested to see whats going on. we saw, i think it was the "new yorker." more or less just to see what was happeni...

In britain dressing like me, and cutting their hair like me. and you have this inadvertent tectonic affect on kids all over the world. >> richard: it wasnt inadvertent, but it was indirect. i mean, i wanted to have that effect. other bands who responded to the way i was doing things got famous. so it ended up having this huge impact and influences. when i first saw the picture of the sex pistols, it was like, i just had to laugh. >> anthony: thats a charitable interpretation of events. malcolm m...

Recognized. richard hell is still living in the same apartment he lived in 40 years ago. >> danny: who likes to move in new york? youve got a good deal, the neighborhood got all better around him, you know? iggy was supposed to be the one who didnt make it most of all. and hes still there, the most dangerous. god sends us these signs that there are miracles, dont give up hope, what you believe is beautiful probably is. not everyone will know it, in time. ♪ blet down. ♪ ♪