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''Blank Generation'' is the debut studio album by American punk rock band Richard Hell and the Voidoids. It was produced by Richard Gottehrer and released in September 1977 on Sire Records. ==Background== Kentucky-born Richard Mayers moved to New York City after dropping out of high school in 1966 aspiring to become a poet. He and his best friend from high school, Tom Miller, founded the rock band the Neon Boys which became Television in 1973. The pair adopted stage names after French poets they admired: Miller became Tom Verlaine, after the Symbolist Paul Verlaine, and Mayers became Richard Hell, inspired by ''A Season in Hell'' (1873) a poem written by Verlaine's idol Arthur Rimbaud. The group was the first rock band to play the club CBGB, which soon became a breeding ground for the early punk rock scene in New York. Hell had an energetic stage presence and wore torn clothing held together with safety pins and spiked his hair, which was to become punk fashion—in 1973, after a failed management deal with the New York Dolls, impresario Malcolm McLaren brought Hell's ideas to back with him to England and eventually incorporated them into the Sex Pistols' image. Disputes with Verlaine led to Hell's departure from Television in 1975, and he co-founded the Heartbreakers with New York Dolls guitarist Johnny Thunders. Hell did not last long with this band, and began recruiting members for a new one. For guitarists Hell found Robert Quine and Ivan Julian—Quine had worked in a bookstore with Hell, and Julian responded to an advertisement in the ''The Village Voice''. They lifted drummer Marc Bell from Wayne County. The band was named the Voidoids after novel Hell had been writing. Hell drew musical inspiration from acts such as Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, the Stooges, and fellow New Yorkers the Velvet Underground, a group with a reputation for heroin-fueled rock and roll with poetic lyrics. Hell also drew from—and covered—garage rock bands such as the Seeds and the Count Five found on the ''Nuggets'' compilation of 1972. Hell had written the song "Blank Generation" while still in Television; he had played it regularly with the band since at least 1975, and later with the Heartbreakers. The Voidoids released a seven-inch ''Blank Generation'' EP in 1976 from Ork Records whose tracks were "Blank Generation", "Another World", and "You Gotta Lose". The cover is a black-and-white cover photo by Hell's former girlfriend Roberta Bayley of a bare-chested Hell with an open jeans zipper. It was an underground hit, and the band signed to Sire Records for its album début. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Blank Generation (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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