Wikipedia: Richard Hell (born Richard Lester Meyers) is an American singer, songwriter, bass guitarist, and writer. Richard Hell was an innovator of punk music and fashion. He was one of the first to spike his hair and wear torn, cut and drawn-on shirts, often held together with safety pins. Malcolm McLaren, manager of the Sex Pistols, has credited Hell as a source of inspiration for the Sex Pistols' look and attitude, as well as the safety-pin and graphics accessorized clothing that McLaren sold in his London shop, Sex.[2] Hell was in several important, early punk bands, including Neon Boys, Television, and The Heartbreakers, after which he formed Richard Hell & The Voidoids. Their 1977 album, Blank Generation, influenced many other punk bands. Its title song was named "One of the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock" by music writers in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame listing[3] and is ranked as one of the all-time top-ten punk songs by a 2006 poll of original British punk figures, as reported in the Rough Guide to Punk. BRIAN CASSDY CATALOGUE 8 2014: Ernie Stomanch aka Richard Hwll flip movieE... is his first book, a minimal, semi-erotic alphabet book published under his own Genesis Grasp imprint. Then known as Richard Meyers, Hell issued the book under the pseudonym "Ernie Stomach." The book would be an important event for the then Meyers, marking one of his earliest uses of a persona, experiments that would shortly culminate in "Richard Hell." As he later wrote of this work: "I attributed the book to 'Ernie Stomach' [...] rejecting the concept of a rigid identity, but instead affirming one's multiplicity and continuum of selves and that the whole range of such selves should be cultivated for works (as opposed to the old-fashioned idea of narrowing own to 'find your voice').'. The inventory of Hell's papers at NYU list this title as a supplement to the final issue of GENESIS : GRASP, though that is not noted anywhere in the book itself. A rare and important document, linking punk to its under-appreciated literary roots. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.