THE VOIDOIDS (RICHARD HELL AND THE VOIDOIDS)
Richard Hell and the Voidoids were an American punk rock band, formed in New York City in 1976 and fronted by Richard Hell, a former member of the Neon Boys, Television and the Heartbreakers. (More from Wikipedia)
Punk and new wave were almost interchangeable terms before long, and some of these bands definitely had a foot in both camps: The hotbed of punk rock in the early days was the CBGB club in New York City, but the house band there almost from opening night, Television (one of the great guitar bands) is now viewed as one of the earliest new wave bands, even though their original vocalist and bass player Richard Hell would leave the band to form one of the punkiest bands of the time, the Voidoids.
(April 2010)
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Greg Shaw himself has said: “In its usual fashion, history has over-simplified what happened in New York; the Poppees are a reminder that it wasn’t all ‘blank generation’ posing.” (Blank Generation is the title of the first album by Richard Hell and the Voidoids).
(December 2010)
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After New York Dolls broke up in 1977, David Johansen released the well regarded “Animals Medley” and later reinvented himself as Buster Poindexter. Johnny Thunders and Jerry Nolan left New York Dolls in the spring of 1975 and formed the punk rock band the Heartbreakers with future Voidoids frontman Richard Hell.
(December 2016)
