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| | The Blank Generation Revisited |
 | | The band was originally called the Neon Boys, founded by Richard Hell (born Richard Myers in Lexington, Kentucky) and Tom Verlaine (formerly a Jersey boy called Miller), changing the name with the arrival of Richard Lloyd and drummer Billy Ficca. |
 | | Mapplethorpe, her roommate and soulmate, was quite the hustler himself, a Catholic boy from Queens who became the foremost documenter of the New York gay S&M scene, a revolutionary in the art world and a society figure. |
 | | Of the second wave of Bowery bands, Suicide, Pere Ubu, Talking Heads and The Dead Boys were by far the most interesting, but as the impact of punk dissipated into New Wave, electro and disco, the climate changed, and those with the sharpest pop instincts eventually outstripped the conceptualists. |
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