Not the Great American Rock and Roll Band
Ladies and gentlemen, Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers. Just because it’s great, because it’s Wednesday, because Johnny’s still dead, because Max’s is a faint memory, and because there’s a lightning storm sweeping across Manhattan. And it’s not the Grateful Dead. Comment away.
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Amen.
Thanks for the jolt of energy on a muggy (though now sunny) day.
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The history of "Chinese Rocks" reads like the travels of a dirty syringe. When Dee Dee Ramone couldn't get the Ramones to record his starkly truthful song about addiction, he brought it to his drug buddy Hell who added a couple of lines and put it in The Heartbreakers' repertoire. Hell was no longer a Heartbreaker by the time the band released "Chinese Rocks" as the A-side of its English-only 1977 debut single...A couple of years later, Sid Vicious recorded "Chinese Rocks" on Sid Sings, a live album that employed Nolan's post-Heartbreakers band, the Idols...And, tying it all in a neat bow, former Voidoids drummer Marc Bell was in the Ramones when they belatedly recorded (the suddenly singular) "Chinese Rock" on 1980's End Of The Century.