Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers - Chinese Rocks

Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers - Chinese Rocks Videoclip

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Johnny
• Thunders
• Heartbreakers
• Walter
• Lure
• Punk
• Rock
• 1977
• Dee-Dee
• Ramones

[DressSmartLookHard]

Amazing song...anything involving Johnny Thunders has to though doesn't it! Loved The Dolls and this is amazing. Just one question...is this the original or was the Ramones version original? I think it was RAMONES but can someone clear it up please?

[denimdemon]

Hi,

take a look to the first comments.

Cheers.

[jack911brown]

R.I.P Johnny.16 years today.

[denimdemon]

16 fuck'n years of pain!

[SettleForNothing]

Pain? To you, I think. Im sure he's much happier now and free of any "links"....

[denimdemon]

... for us!

[up2space]

long live Dee Dee Ramone.

[Titchymouse1]

Personally i prefer the ramones (but then again i prefer the ramones over anyone!)and anyway are you saying you've nver wanted to be like someone? I realise ill probably get thumbs down for this comment but hey.

[giglio33012]

@DressSmartLookHard ....Dee Dee wrote it but Johnny did not want The Ramones doing a drug song so he gave it to Richard Hell who was in The Heartbreakers at the time and then Johnny Thunders stole it...

[jonbecker03]

@DressSmartLookHard i guess i just don't "get" johnny thunders completely. and i never have for twenty years, though i'm attempting to do so now. he was an interesting but erratic guitar player. yet he apparently has been quite influential. he's an acquired taste but many people seem to have acquired it. (yes, i know that he was of historical importance to the punk movement and even to the glam rock movement. i'm just trying to figure out how he became that important.)

[adolfGoooglification]

@norrisonthespot

hahahahaha...that's gold. They would've sold a helluva lot more records if Petty was the lead...

Fuck Tom Petty and his middle-american, middle of the road view of life. Him and Springsteen are a blight on humanity, let alone American culture...what a prick. Fucking Travelling Wilbury's, they're a blight on humanity too...

Roy Orbison is beyond reproach though. A gentleman and an extraordinarily talented singer...

[DressSmartLookHard]

@brineb58 Cheers

[brineb58]

@DressSmartLookHard

This IS the original!!!

[TBOMBURBOOTY]

johnny dident steal this song , or anything else.... he allways had other people do work for him . i bet you wish you were bad enough to have an M.O. like johnny's. you moly tech faggit.

[aivopark]

Andy mc coy wanted the band to be called Chinese Rocks, but Michael Monroe said Hanoi Rocks.

[norrisonthespot]

Thank God Tom Petty took over lead :)

[mimesis6mime]

here's the straight story from 'End of the Century'

Dee Dee wrote the song, Johnny Ramone said they couldn't record it cause the Ramone's didn't sing about dope, so DD gave it to Richard hell who wrote the line "digging a chinese ditch" then RH and thundersy played it in original heartbreakers, Richard left, Thunders recorded it on LAMF, and so Johnny Ramone bitched out Dee Dee for the letting the song go, and Dee Dee said it was Johnny's fault but DD still felt humiliated.

[polytech44xyz]

Johnny Thunders basically stole this song- it was actually written by Richard Hell and Dee Dee Ramone. The Ramones were going to use it on their Rocket To Russia album, but Joey got flak from their record co. over what were determined to be "controversial drug oriented lyrics"...