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An unused Heartbreakers ticket?! An unforgivable sin!

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Gang War poster from 1979

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JT plays The Exit Club in Chicago, Illinois.

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Online ad for Waldo's Fall 2015 tour of the UK.

09/16 - The Railway Hotel, Southend

09/17 - Jazz Cafe, London

09/18 - Hare & Hounds, Birmingham

09/19 - Soup Kitchen, Manchester

09/20 - Broadcast, Glasgow

09/21 - Cluny, Newcastle

09/22 - Brudenell, Leeds

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The ‘Breakers break up. Trouser Press, June 1978

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Johnny and the boys play Mainichi Hall, Japan, on January 28, 1985.

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JT article from Japanese "Music Life" magazine, 1985.

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Rip my sweet prince, I COULD’VE CHANGED HIM ☹️☹️☹️☹️

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Johnny and groupie, Sable Starr, in 1979. Photo by David Arnoff.

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Poster (second one on the blog) for JT and Wayne Kramer's Gang War show at the Star Bar in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on November 6, 1979!

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Glen Matlock and JT rockin' out at the Prince Of Wales Hotel in Melbourne, Australia, in September 1986!

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Two ads for JT and Wayne Kramer's Gang War gig at the Palms in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 31, 1980. The Variants and Nervous System opened.

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Ads from the Los Angeles Times (top image) and L.A. Weekly (bottom image) for JT’s show at Fender’s on March 21, 1986.

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Sydney, Australia - 1986

Here’s a story that’s posted to the ancient, yet still functioning, JT Cyber Lounge (last modified in 2001):

When Johnny came out here to Australia way back in 1986, I think it was... I was only 17 years old and went to 4 of the 5 gigs he played in Sydney, as well as met him and hung out with him. He dragged me up from the side of the stage, at this long since demolished venue called 'the Tivoli', and we did an impromptu performance on the spot, afterwards he asked me if I wanted to hang out and if I knew any clubs in Sydney where he could go post-gig. I took him to a club called the 'Propaganda' down in Kings Cross, along with Glen Matlock from the Pistols, the guitarist; a black English guy whom I don't remember the name of, as well as Susan, Thunders' then paramour. I think Jerry Nolan was suffering from a broken collar-bone or something, and was escorted back to the hotel by his stunning 6 ft. redhead Swedish girlfriend who was wearing a totally see-through lace shirt that night.

Anyway, I will always remember dancing in that half empty club (it was a Tuesday or Wednesday night) to 'Lust for Life' by Iggy Pop, with Thunders, Matlock, my Argentinian girlfriend from high school; Liliana, and Susan who shimmied and sashayed like a blonde punk Anita Ekberg. Johnny asked us if we would come to the gig on the next night and do backing vocals for 'Gloria' with them. Needless to say I jumped at the chance, it was the first time I ever performed on stage. Up to that point I had been playing guitars for five years, jamming in garages etc. and secretly harbouring the usual adolescent rock'n'roll, punk rock, guitar playin' fantasies, as you do... so it was pretty wild for me to debut on stage for the first time in my life as part of Johnny Thunder's backing band. Since then, I've played in a couple of local sort of punky, rock'n'rollish sort of bands and put out a few recordings, done a bit of touring between Sydney and Melbourne and all that. But I will never forget Johnny or that short time.

Maria G.

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A poem which was recently posted on eBay.  From the description:

“This was found folded in a 1971 book written by Mel Lyman, a musician and possible cult leader, and owned by a harmonica player who was on a few albums as a band member in the early 1970's...so the possibility that this "Julie Jourden" is the same woman who married Johnny Thunders is quite real.

It is an interesting little poem about what I believe is Bergen Street in Brooklyn.”

This looks like the genuine article to me.  To be honest, it’s a pretty impactful piece of writing that precisely describes a woman caught in the depths of poverty and addiction.