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THE SAD, LONELY DEATH OF ROCKER JOHNNY THUNDERS AND A LOVE THAT ENDURES … FOREVER?By Alyne A. Pustanio Johnny Thunders ~ John Genzale (July 15, 1952 - April 23, 1991)On Friday night, September 24th, two members of the Louisiana State Paranormal Research Society and I will be spending the night in the Johnny Thunders Death Room to investigate the truth behind the rumors of ghostly activity. And for part of the night you can join us there LIVE with host Michael Vara on his popular internet radio broadcast “Late Night in the Midlands”!! 10PM September 24th 2010 www.latenightinthemidlands.com ~ Please listen to the show here now!
Johnny Thunders was born John Genzale on July 15, 1952 in Queens, NY where for the first decade or so of his life he demonstrated the normal interests of a growing boy: little league baseball, playing with friends on summer afternoons, collecting comic books, and – thanks to the burgeoning “British Invasion” – learning to play guitar. But somewhere in his early teens his interests took a decidedly different turn and by 1967 Johnny was playing in his first real band, The Reign. Later that year he formed his own band, Johnny and the Jaywalkers, and changed his name for the first time, becoming Johnny Volume. Various jobs, various incarnations with various bands, and another name change – to Johnny Thunders after the DC comic book character and this one would “stick” – Johnny finally fell in with a band that had three things necessary for success – talent, management, and timing: this band was The New York Dolls. Unlike the scene in L.A., where Glam Rock had taken hold and glitter ruled, the NY scene of the early ‘70’s had a harder edge to it, and this edge fit right in with the punk scene exploding in London at the time. Bands like the Ramones, The Patti Smith Group, and Blondie (when they were good), were making names for themselves at clubs like CBGB’s and Max’s Kansas City. The New York Dolls burst into the midst of this scene. With front man David Johansen – a dead ringer for a young Mick Jagger – and other talents like Syl Sylvain and Billy Murcia, the Dolls quickly rose in popularity. Thunders recorded two albums with the band The New York Dolls and Too Much Too Soon, and inevitably the Dolls were lifted out of the NY scene and sent out to create a sensation across America. Their new manager, Malcolm McLaren, would later become famous as the manager of the premiere punk band of the 70’s, the Sex Pistols. Before Sid and Nancy There Was …
The song Iggy Pop wrote about Sabel Starr:LOOK AWAY I slept wlth Sable when she was 13 When the New York Dolls came to L.A. in 1973 to play the Palladium as headliners for the “Death To Glitter” concert, Johnny met one of the most significant women of his life, Sabel Starr. Starr was probably the most well-known groupie on the L.A. music scene in which she had moved since the age of 12. Starr could point to notches in her lipstick case marking members of Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, scores of English Glam Rockers like Mott the Hoople, Marc Bolan, Slade, and numerous others. At the time she met Johnny Thunders she had just ended an affair with hardcore alternative rocker Iggy Pop. Iggy moved on to her sister Corel, and Sabel moved on to Johnny Thunders. When the Dolls left L.A. after their Palladium gig, Sabel was with them. The relationship between Johnny and Sabel was tempestuous at times, but there was a genuine love there. Back in NY, the two set up housekeeping in an apartment on West 24th Street with the help of Johnny’s mother and sisters. But Sabel soon found she was unable to fit the mold as the perfect girlfriend of a “good Italian boy from Queens,” and the pressure soon became obvious. Johnny’s growing addiction to heroin wasn’t helping things. After bouts of physical abuse from Johnny, a short-lived separation, two abortions, and an attempt at suicide, Sabel left Johnny for good, returning to L.A. and her parents’ home. Sabel’s departure hit Johnny hard. Everyone that knew them felt the same way – they were soul mates, the loves of each others’ lives. The hope survived that the couple would one day reunite, but as time passed it was obvious – Johnny and Sabel just weren’t meant to be. Thunders had already left the New York Dolls and formed his own band, The Heartbreakers, when his tumultuous relationship with Sabel Starr came to an end. The Heartbreakers saw minimal success in America, but were welcomed with open arms by the increasingly volatile English punk scene. After the breakup of the band, and throughout the 1980’s, Thunders moved about through other bands, playing with various artists across America, England, and Europe. His last recording was a contribution to an album for the German punk band Die Toten called “Born Too Loose.” It was recorded only 36 hours before his death.
In April 1991, like so many musicians before him, Johnny Thunders drifted into New Orleans, coming to rest in a little out-of-the-way guest house on St. Peter Street where, on April 23rd, he died. The death of Johnny Thunders is still surrounded in mystery and members of Johnny’s family remain unsatisfied to this day that the New Orleans Police and Coroner’s Departments did everything they could to solve the case. An autopsy would reveal that Johnny died of drug-related causes, but the circumstances surrounding his death were never made clear. A known drug-addict, Thunders was undergoing methadone treatment at the time of his death and often traveled with a large supply of methadone. Yet it was reported that a large quantity of LSD had been found in his system at the time of the autopsy; this was a drug that Thunders didn’t like and rarely had used, according to those who knew him. DeeDee Ramone of the Ramones is quoted in his book Poison Heart: Surviving the Ramones as saying that he had received a call on April 24th, the day after Thunders’ death, from a mutual friend who indicated that Thunders had gotten mixed up with “some bastards” in New Orleans, “some posers and drug dealers” who had dropped LSD on Thunders, stolen his methadone supply and anything else they could, and left him in his room to die. Some of the facts bear out this assertion. Johnny’s room was ransacked and many of his belongings were missing including his passport, musical instruments, clothes and some make-up. Johnny had crawled – or been placed – under the low coffee table where rigor mortis had set in and frozen his emaciated body into a weird “pretzel-like” shape. Local singer Willy Deville, who was living next door to the guest house at the time and gave plenty of interviews to the press, described the scene: “When he [Thunders] came out … rigor mortis had set in to such an extent that his body was in a U-shape. When you’re laying on the floor in a fetal position, doubled over, well, when the body bag came out, it was in a U. It was pretty awful.” Additional autopsy findings only muddied the waters. The level of drugs found in Thunders’ system had not been enough to cause fatality, but foul play could not be ruled out. What was confirmed was that Thunders had been suffering from an advanced stage of leukemia, which explained his emaciated appearance but was not indicated as cause of death. Although there was no obvious evidence to support the finding, foul play could not be ruled out. In the end, Thunders’ death, what caused it and what occurred in the hours before he passed, may never be explained. Johnny’s family, (Thunders was survived by his ex-wife Julie and four children, sons John Genzale, Vito Genzale, Dino Genzale, and daughter Jamie Genzale, Johnny's sister Maryann, and her husband Rusty) exasperated by the “laissez faire” attitude of the New Orleans authorities, whom they feel simply dismissed Thunders as just another musician “who crawled to New Orleans to die,” still search for answers. The original police reports on the case went missing, a coroner’s department employee was fired in the aftermath, and since Hurricane Katrina has very likely wiped out what documented evidence there might have been to help bring closure to the family, the death of Johnny Thunders is destined to remain one of the many mysteries of New Orleans. " " What Sabel Starr, then living in Las Vegas, felt when she heard the news of Johnny’s death is known only to her, and she has taken her feelings and her love for Johnny Thunders to her own grave. " " The “Uncrowned Queen of Groupies,” the inimitable babe with the shining platinum hair, legs “to there,” and seven inch platform shoes whose smile radiates from photographs with some of the legends of rock and roll, met her own death to brain cancer with quiet dignity on April 17, 2009. " " Her love of Johnny Thunders had been strong enough to compel her to leave the high-life of the L.A. groupie scene, as well as her family and everything familiar to her, at the ripe old age of 15. After she left Thunders, Starr never went back to “the scene.” She took back her real name, Sabel Shields, and relocated to Nevada where she made a life for herself, worked mediocre jobs, had two children, and, finally, found another partner late in life. But everyone knew Johnny, the dark-haired Italian boy, lived on in some secret room in her heart. " " Death has now set them both free, so the question is: Have Johnny and Sabel reunited on the “other side”? "
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"THREE PARANORMAL RESEARCHERS" AND ONLY ONE KNOWS THE WORDS TO “TRASH”! Since the death of Johnny Thunders in 1991, guests who have stayed in the room where he died have reported a number of ghostly encounters and experiences. Strange whispers occur, shadowy figures are seen crossing the room, the sound of breathing, and the feeling of someone unseen sitting on the bed.
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