I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp

I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp: An Autobiography is a 2013 memoir by the American writer and musician Richard Hell, published in March 2013 by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins. The book recounts Hell's childhood in Lexington, Kentucky, his arrival in New York City in 1966 at the age of seventeen, his transformation from aspiring poet to a founding figure of the punk scene at CBGB with Television, The Heartbreakers, and Richard Hell and the Voidoids, and his subsequent decline into heroin addiction. The narrative ends in 1984, the year Hell retired from music to focus on writing.