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"Blank Generation"
Single by Richard Hell and the Voidoids
from the album Blank Generation
A-side	Blank Generation
B-side	Love Comes In Spurts
Released	1977
Recorded	1977
Genre	Punk
Length	2:45
Label	Sire
Writer(s)	Richard Hell
Richard Hell and the Voidoids singles chronology

Blank Generation is the title track of The Voidoids' debut album Blank Generation. Hell wrote the song during his time with the band Television, and performed it live with another band, The Heartbreakers.^[1] British contemporaries of Hell, the Sex Pistols rewrote Blank Generation into their own song called "Pretty Vacant"^[2].

^ Allmusic song review
^ "I came back to England determined. I had these images I came back with, it was like Marco Polo or Walter Raleigh. I brought back the image of this distressed, strange thing called Richard Hell. And this phrase, 'the blank generation'. [...] Richard Hell was a definite, 100 percent inspiration, and, in fact, I remember telling the Sex Pistols, ‘Write a song like Blank Generation, but write your own bloody version,’ and their own version was 'Pretty Vacant’.” --Malcolm McLaren in an interview in Please Kill Me, the Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain, Grove Press (1996), p. 199.

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