Sheer lust, everybody rolling around, crawling around, kissing anything you found, sticking fingers and toes wherever they’d fit,” he writes. Lure was the decades-long musical collaborator and stage-top straight man to Heartbreaker Johnny’s freeform explorations. But genius has its downside too, and a big part of that is a refusal to admit that other people’s ideas and thoughts might, in their own way, be as valid as your own. In 2018 the Waldos album “Wacka Lacka Loom Bop a Loom Bam Boo” was released, garnering critical acclaim. He tells about his bandmates, not so much about Billy, but of Jerry and particularly of Johnny. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. You learn quite a lot about society, too. Not sure if they will. 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. Published Walter also tells the very human and personal stories of his bandmates as they struggle with the music industry, the music press, the fans, each other, but mostly with themselves. Dave Thompson is the author of over 150 books, including co-written memoirs with New York Doll Sylvain Sylvain, Motown legends Brian and Eddie Holland (forthcoming), Hawkwind’s Nik Turner, the Yardbirds' Jim McCarty, Fairport Convention’s Judy Dyble, and more. I wasn’t even sure, if I want to read it or not. 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. Start by marking “To Hell And Back: my life in Johnny Thunders' Heartbreakers, in the words of the last man standing” as Want to Read: Error rating book. It gave me much more than I had expected. As a big Richard hell fan it is annoying to have him talk bad about Hell several times but not explain why he was so bad.The most we get is he was aloof. He was convinced otherwise by literary agent Lee Sobel – whose agency has in recent years sold autobiographies by former New York Doll Sylvain Sylvain, and a Student Teachers’ founding member Laura Davis-Chanin. Ego-Allüren und Eitelkeiten fraßen sich durch die Band, der Sänger Richard Hell knallte so durch, dass die anderen ihn hinausdrängten. You could wear it for a year or two at gigs but then the things would start falling apart. In early 2020, he published a memoir, To Hell And Back: My Life In Johnny Thunders’ Heartbreakers, In The Words Of The Last Man Standing. Born in the UK, Thompson is now a US resident living in Delaware. Johnny was as bad as I’d ever seen him—during rehearsals, he could only play two or three songs before he’d need to run to the bathroom to shoot up some shit… six months later, on April 23, 1991, Johnny was dead,“ Lure writes. Die Stuttgarter Band BRTHR veröffentlicht ihr drittes Album: „High Times for Loners“. The best document of this is the Live at Max’s album which should be in every collection. He is a columnist for Goldmine magazine, and his work has also appeared in Rolling Stone, Spin, Alternative Press, Mojo, Record Collector, and many other major publications.