RSD 2022
1x LP
‘Four Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers’ demo sessions from 1976 & 1977, compiled together on one album for the first time. The album shows the development of the band building towards their classic 1977 ‘L.A.M.F.’ album (recently reissued with a newly found original master), and further points to the direction they would have gone had they not split up. Includes ‘I Wanna Be Loved’ from a recently discovered Master. Pressed in transparent magenta vinyl, it comes with a 12” poster of the Roberta Bayley cover photo – an outtake from the L.A.M.F. cover session, and an inner bag with the late Walter Lure interviewed by Johnny Thunders’ biographer Nina Antonia in 2005. Comes in the year of Johnny Thunders’ 70th birthday, and realeased on the 31st anniversary of his death.
Tracklist:
Side One
BORN TOO LOOSE
CHINESE ROCKS
LET GO
CAN’T KEEP MY EYES ON YOU
I LOVE YOU
IT’S NOT ENOUGH
DO YOU LOVE ME
TAKE A CHANCE
Side Two
BORN TO LOSE
I WANNA BE LOVED
GOING STEADY
FLIGHT
PIRATE LOVE
GIVE HER A GREAT BIG KISS
TOO MUCH JUNKIE BUSINESS
LONDON BOYS
Tracks 1 – 3 Essex Studio demo, Feb ’77
Tracks 4 – 9 Jay Nap Studio demo, Fall ‘76
Tracks 10 – 13 SBS Studio demo, Jan ‘76
Tracks 14 – 16 Riverside Recordings demo, Dec ‘77
Johnny Thunders – lead guitar, vocals
Walter Lure – lead guitar, vocals
Billy Rath – bass guitar (except 10 – 13 Richard Hell)
Jerry Nolan – drums, vocals (except 14 – 16 Terry Chimes)
