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    So Alone


    Johnny Thunders' career is virtually a one-man history of American New Wave rock & roll. Not entirely coincidental, it's also the story of one fuckup and blown chance after another. The New York Dolls, which he cofounded with David Johansen in 1972, never got anywhere commercially, though they were...

    1978 RS: Not Rated

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Biography

In a perversely brilliant casting maneuver, filmmaker Lech Kowalski picked Johnny Thunders to play Jesus in a 1982 documentary on New York junkie life. In actuality, Thunders was a Jesus noir, a trashy Jean Genet saint, his hard-fated life a furious, unfocused rebellion. Never more than a cult figure, he died in 1991, ready made for myth -- the last of the hell-bent rock & roll true believers. Eve...

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