Richard Hell Was the First Person to Shoot Up Heroin in Front of Me
Richard Hell
Legs McNeil, co-founder of Punk magazine, on the time rocker Richard Hell shot up heroin right in front of him and why Hell is the best—and laziest—writer in rock and roll.
Richard Hell was the first person to ever shoot up heroin in front of me.
We were “filming” the photo comic The Legend of Nick Detroitin early 1976, which would become the worst-selling issue of PUNK magazine ever, and I was picking up Richard at his apartment on East 12th Street....
