To Hell and Back
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To Hell and Back

My Life in Johnny Thunders' Heartbreakers, in the Words of the Last Man Standing

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eBook - ePub

To Hell and Back

My Life in Johnny Thunders' Heartbreakers, in the Words of the Last Man Standing

About this book

There have been many books written about Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, but only by people who weren't there. Walter Lure was—from the band's chaotic beginnings on New York's Lower East Side, through a now-legendary UK tour with the Sex Pistols and the Clash, and on to a yearlong stay in London—eyewitness and midwife to the birth of UK punk.



Now, he tells his story in To Hell and Back, a thrilling ride through the clubs and dives of two continents, in the company of one of the most notorious junkies in rock 'n' roll history. Drawing from his own contemporary journals, Lure paints a vivid portrait of life in both cities, during perhaps the most crucial musical uprising of the past forty years…the music, the characters, the clothes, the fights, the drugs, the orgies, the lot.

Lure lays bare his own battle with drugs, and reflects upon his life after the band's split—rising to become a Wall Street fixture yet still finding time to make music.

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Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Introduction
  3. One From Floral Park to the Fillmore
  4. Two That Kid
  5. Three Watching the Dolls
  6. Four Heartbroken
  7. Five Rookie of the Year
  8. Six Cash In, Dope Out
  9. Seven I’m Not the New Kid Anymore
  10. Eight Farewell to Manhattan
  11. Nine And Hello to London
  12. Ten Anarchy on Tour (or Not)
  13. Eleven Christmas
  14. Twelve Drugs
  15. Thirteen Track Marks
  16. Fourteen Oh Carol
  17. Fifteen Bands
  18. Sixteen Chinese Rocks
  19. Seventeen Deportees
  20. Eighteen Back to London
  21. Nineteen Over the Rainbow
  22. Twenty Hearts Breaking
  23. Twenty-One Clean-Up Time
  24. Photographs
  25. Epilogue
  26. Appendix One Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers Discography
  27. Appendix Two Walter Lure Discography