Richard Hell was the frontman for the early American punk band Richard Hell and the Voidoids. Their album, Blank Generation, featured the song "Love Comes in Spurts".
Hell hung out with fellow early punks Tom Verlaine and Patti Smith, and played for a while with Verlaine in his band Television, but they split over creative and personal differences.
Hell is sometimes thought of in connection with a trivial contribution to punk fashion: torn and cut shirts.