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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. [1] . 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. [1] Early life and career.
Nov 10, 2022 · Born John Anthony Genzale in Queens, New York, in 1952, Thunders formed his first band, the Reign, when he was 15. By the time he was 17, he was a familiar face at shows around NYC and was even to be seen in the audience at a Rolling Stones show at Madison Square Garden, captured forever in the 1970 film Gimme Shelter .
Nov 7, 2020 · According to Louder magazine, Perry grew close to legendary New York Dolls guitarist Johnny Thunders in the 1970s.
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 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.
Apr 23, 2022 · The band hurled all of their old heroes into a sort of DIY shaker, with a bit of inherent New York art scene anarchy and poured it out in a glug of electrically shambolic drug-fuelled performances. As their leader and spokesman Thunders once retrospectively declared: “The Dolls were an attitude, if nothing else, they were a great attitude.”
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Johnny Thunders (vocals/guitar) and Jerry Nolan (drums) gained fame in the pioneering proto-punk band the New York Dolls. By early 1975, the Dolls were disintegrating amid poor record sales and tensions within the band, and Thunders and Nolan quit during a tour of Florida in March 1975.
