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John Anthony Genzale (July 15, 1952 – April 23, 1991), known professionally as Johnny Thunders, was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. He came to prominence in the early 1970s as a member of New York Dolls. He later played with the Heartbreakers and as a solo artist.
Nov 7, 2020 · Learn how the legendary New York Dolls guitarist died under mysterious circumstances in 1991, after a lifetime of addiction and hardship. Read the testimonies of his friends and fans, including Aerosmith's Joe Perry, who witnessed his decline and tried to help him.
Nov 10, 2022 · published 10 November 2022. Brilliant, self-destructive, hugely influential, Johnny Thunders was a voice of nature who made helped make the TV Yellow Les Paul Junior one of the coolest electric guitars ever.
Jul 15, 2016 · Johnny Thunders’s story is so steeped in doomed glamour and junkie mythology that somewhere along the line the man that was John Anthony Genzale has been lost in the telling, but to know one you have to know the other.
Johnny Thunders (July 15, 1952 – April 23, 1991), born John Anthony Genzale, Jr., was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter.
Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers - Born To Lose (1977). #JohnnyThunders Footage from 1976/'77 of Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers with Born To Lose from the single Born To...
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Johnny Thunders was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, best known as a member of bands such as the ‘New York Dolls’ and ‘The Heartbreakers.’ Born and raised in Queens, New York City, Thunders began performing during his high-school years.
