Johnny Thunders

Johnny Thunders
Billy Murcia
Johnny Thunders and Billy Murcia were members of the early seventies “glitter rock” group “The New York Dolls”. The group dared to go were no band had gone before, they wore heavy make-up and dressed in drag ! Their “I Love Trash” got some airplay but it was their wild stage show and sexually explicit performances that put them on the charts. On November 6th of 1972 while on tour in London, Billy Murcia died in his sleep after mixing alcohol and barbiturates at the age of 22. Long after the band was defunct, Johnny Thunders met the “Grim Reaper of Rock” in New Orleans on April 23rd of 1991, a victim of bad heroin. He was 38 years old