Johnny Thunders (July 15, 1952 – April 23, 1991), born John Anthony Genzale, Jr., was an American rock and roll/punk rock guitarist, singer and songwriter. He came to prominence in the early 1970s as a member of the New York Dolls. He later played with The Heartbreakers and as a solo artist.
Read more about Johnny Thunders: Musical Tributes
Famous quotes containing the words johnny and/or thunders:
“I’m not here for your amusement. You’re here for mine.”
—John Lydon (formerly Johnny Rotten)
“Who would have suspected so large and cold and thick-skinned a thing to be so sensitive? Yet it has its law to which it thunders obedience when it should as surely as the buds expand in the spring.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)