CHEER UP SAD SACK

I'm not one for birthday posts, but a friend of mine linked to a nice video of Johnny Thunders (born July 15, 1952), and it was hard not to be a little moved. It's a video of him with three kids and I'm not sure what the story is behind it. It looks like they were going to use clips for a future music video. It was nice to see him clowning around with young bullshit detectors. One of his last recorded songs, "Kids Are People" plays intermittently in the background and at one point the kids are singing along. The song was recorded for what was to be his next album (See Sticks and Stones, linked below).

Here's just a few other songs, the last of which, a rerecorded version of "Born To Lose", was recorded with the German band Die Toten Hosen just 36 hours before he passed away. A whole lot of other Thunders related stuff has been posted here before, scroll down these posts. A lot of the links are still good.

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Listen:

The Heartbreakers - Born To Lose mp3 at Town Full of Losers
The Hearbreakers - Chinese Rocks mp3 at Event Magic
The Heartbreakers - Can't Keep My Eyes On You mp3 at Raven Sings the Blues
Johnny Thunders with Die Toten Hosen - Born To Lose (streaming) at YouTube His last recording
LP Download: Johnny Thunders - Sticks and Stones (via ADrive) at Teenage Dogs In Trouble (1990) NOTE: It's a rar file that contains FLAC files that will have to be converted to mp3s. Here's a converter that can be downloaded.
Video:
Johnny Thunders - Pirate Love, German TV 1985 at YouTube
Visit:
Earlier Johnny Thunders posts
Johnny Thunders at Wikipedia