Johnny Thunders
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Live Review by Abby Weissman, East Coast Rocker, 28 January 1987
SEEING JOHNNY Thunders live is kind of like a crap shoot. Even his diehard New York fans, long disillusioned by failed comebacks and cures, cautiously ...
Johnny Thunders: Punk and Drugs and Warhol
Obituary by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 30 April 1991
JOHNNY THUNDERS had long been a by-word for self-destruction through drugs and hard living. In 1981, Trouser Press magazine cynically declared Thunders "legally dead" alongside a cartoon ...
Sylvain Sylvain and Johnny Thunders: Lonely Planet Boys
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 22 May 1982
Two of the original New York Dolls are in London. BARNEY HOSKYNS charts their destinies. ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, 1997
JOHNNY THUNDERS'S principal solo claim to fame, So Alone consists of Dollsy covers (the Shangri-Las' ‘Give Him a Great Big Kiss,’ the Chantays' surf chestnut ...
Johnny Thunders: The Marquee, London
Live Review by Carol Clerk, Melody Maker, 1 September 1984
WHEN JOHNNY came marching back to London this time around, he took us all by surprise. ...
Johnny Thunders: Town And Country Club, Kentish Town, London
Live Review by Cathi Unsworth, Sounds, 12 December 1987
RETURN OF The Living Dead — Part 97. ...
Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 9 April 1983
THE LATEST trio of ROIR cassettes expands the label's category of historical documentation – a division which offers some excuse for the fact that Reachout ...
The Heartbreakers, Patti Palladin: Lyceum, London
Live Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 31 March 1984
Smacked Bottoms ...
Johnny Thunders: Hurt Me (New Rose)
Review by Don Watson, New Musical Express, 28 January 1984
PAIN! ...
Two Johnnies Get a Lift: Christmas Eve 1976
Memoir by Ed Jones, Rock's Backpages, December 2021
IT WAS 11.30 pm on Christmas Eve, 1976, at the height of the punk explosion. To the dismay of the entire nation, I had temporarily ...
Johnny Thunders: The Heartbreak Kid
Retrospective by Graeme Thomson, Uncut, May 2011
"Everything JOHNNY THUNDERS touched broke," says one of his old bandmates. On the 20th anniversary of Thunders' death, Uncut pieces together the story of a ...
Johnny Thunders: Nothing Is Forever
Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 21 October 1978
Maybe you sneered at the New York Dolls; so maybe you missed a Distant Early Warning of the new wave. Johnny Thunders is back in ...
Go, Johnny, Go: Thunders' So Alone
Sleeve notes by Ira Robbins, Sire Records, February 1992
AMONG THE LIFETIME residents of abyssville are those rock'n'rollers whose faith in the liberating rebellion of mangy guitar music gets crossed up into a personal ...
Johnny Thunders: Jonathan Swift's, Cambridge MA
Live Review by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 10 September 1981
"SHUT UP!" Johnny Thunders yells, greeting the crowd at Jonathan Swift's about an hour after his set is scheduled to start. "You guys ready for ...
Johnny Thunders: Diary Of A Lover (Jem); Hurt Me (New Rose, import)
Review by Julie Panebianco, The Boston Phoenix, 7 February 1984
JOHNNY THUNDERS' drug habit has been his brazen insignia since his days with the New York Dolls. In fact, he once led the notorious Junkies ...
Johnny Thunders: Sticks & Stones – The Lost Album
Review by Kris Needs, Record Collector, March 2009
Johnny was a great songwriter… here's the proof. ...
In Cold Blood: The Death of Johnny Thunders
Retrospective by Kris Needs, MOJO, June 2006
How much do we know about the death of Johnny Thunders? That it was murder, says Kris Needs. ...
Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, November 1978
WHEN JOHNNY came swaggering home last month (well, second home), you could safely bet there was no other place I'd be that night than right ...
The First Punk: Johnny Thunders
Retrospective by Nina Antonia, MOJO, March 2005
FOR THE GENERATION of kids who became punks, the New York Dolls' appearance on The Old Grey Whistle Test in November 1973 was an epiphany. ...
Book Excerpt by Nina Antonia, Cherry Red Books, August 1999
JOHNNY THUNDERS didn’t just flirt with death, he courted it. Even so, his eventual demise in New Orleans on 23rd April 1991 still came as ...
Born To Lose: A Film About Johnny Thunders
Report by Paul Gorman, MOJO, 1998
NINETEEN YEARS in gestation, Born To Lose – which matches the addled life and times of its subject Johnny Thunders by being simultaneously intriguing and ...
Johnny Thunders: An American In Sweden
Report and Interview by Richard North, Offbeat, April 1989
SO, WHY did I wait around half a day for a three-minute interview with Johnny Thunders? ...
Beyond The Valley Of The New York Dolls
Report and Interview by Roy Trakin, Musician, October 1981
THE FIRST TIME I ever laid eyes on the New York Dolls was New Year's Eve, 1972, at the old Mercer Arts Center, and, quite ...
see also Gang War
see also Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers
see also New York Dolls
see also Patti Palladin
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