{"product_id":"i-dreamed-i-was-a-very-clean-tramp","title":"I Dreamed I was a Very Clean Tramp","description":"From an early age, Richard Hell dreamed of running away. He arrived penniless in New York City at seventeen; ten years later he was a pivotal voice of the age of punk, co-founding such seminal bands as Television, The Heartbreakers, and Richard Hell and the Voidoids - whose song 'Blank Generation' remains the defining anthem of the era, an era that would forever alter popular culture in all its forms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow this legendary downtown artist went from a bucolic childhood in the idyllic Kentucky foothills to igniting a movement that would take over New York and London's restless youth culture - cementing CBGB as the ground zero of punk and spawning the careers of not only Hell himself, but a cohort of friends such as Tom Verlaine, Patti Smith, the Ramones, and Debby Harry - is a mesmerising chronicle of self-invention, and of Hell's yearning for redemption through poetry, music, and art. An acutely rendered, unforgettable coming-of-age story, \u003ci\u003eI Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp\u003c\/i\u003e evokes with feeling, lyricism, and piercing intelligence both the world that shaped him and the world he shaped.","brand":"White Rabbit","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":65109710995833,"sku":"9781399650519","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/store.whiterabbitbooks.co.uk\/products\/i-dreamed-i-was-a-very-clean-tramp","provider":"White Rabbit","version":"1.0","type":"link"}