Johnny was in fine form during this interview...so fuckin funny. His dry sense of humor is brilliant 😚

Walter just passed. RIP, Heartbreakers. You guys were great.

"Do you miss not looking like a lesbian?" says the guy dressed like Ellen DeGeneres.

R.I.P NOLAN .RATH.THUNDERS AND WALTER ROCK N ROLL FOREVER

"my mother never thought that" pwned.

Johnny telling his influences during this time is so incredible, considering he influenced a genre and a generation. Drugs do kill. And they fuck up brilliance. Case in point.

Wow Johnny Thunders tells it like it is.

Lol, Johnny kept outclassing the interviewer numerous times.

"By drugs, I'm not going to ask what, but I know your drummer drinks which I find shocking" "Yeah, I find that shocking myself" HAHAHA

Tony Wilson: Aren't you a bit old for this, Walter? Walter: *stunned pause*

What a fucking cool guy Johnny was.

Dirty Johnny from Queens.. and cute Walter from Long Island baby.

Johnny was so ahead of his time

"Do you miss lookin like a lesbian" Unlike lots of complainers here , I found that rather funny.....even Johnny thought it was funny... He could handle that.....those are the kind of good natured insults these guys throw at each other the whole fuckin day...

HAHAHA WALTER'S GIGGLE ON ''WHAT DO YOU LEARN FROM HIM?''

Mr. Thunders and Mr. Lure.. great couple. Best. The Heartbreakers. Only the real rock n roll band. Punk ROCK band.

Labels suck but regardless of what Johnny says, the Heartbreakers were in the New York scene in the late 70's, and at various times hung out with the Sex Pistols and The Ramones (Dee Dee at least)...Johnny Thunders was such a huge influence on punk music that it's inaccurate to say he wasn't punk. He was...protopunk! = )

I dig that he shouts out Iggy and MC5, I heard he stole a press pass from some girl, and followed T Rex around on tour for a summer or something.

"chow mein" lol so cute

RIP Walter Lure

Walter is great. "Is my hair on fire?"

did Billy Rath EVER talk?? I swear, I've never seen 'em opening his mouth other than in some pictures... Johnny looks fantastic of course, but Walter don't look too bad either...

Say what you like about Johnny, but he always kept his wit, and it was quick, about him.

interviewer: I know your drummer drinks, which I find shocking.. johnny: yeah I find that shocking myself interviewer: alright listen, walter and johnny that you very much. johnny: chow mein

..the one and only...

There was a strange occurrence in the Uk in the 1980’s. Music journalists, those who somehow found themselves on TV, had an arrogance about them. In their own demeanour and attitude, it was clear they felt they were more of a star than the folks they were interviewing. This is Tony Wilson, who later on learned to affect a certain modesty..Worst examples - David Hepworth,... Andy Kershaw God forbid.

Thunderous looks cadaverous and they are both strung out here.

I fucking love Johnny t

Johnny didn’t even see 38. Sad.

The late Johhny Thunders and Waldo are both gone, and bassist Billy Rath watching from the side stage gone too, and interviewer Tony Wilson, '24 Hour Party People' film, gone as well. All left their mark on music.

Love you Tony. RIP.

RIP JT and Uncle Waldo

"Terminal Indifference" sounds like a good band name!

i think its from the latter part of the anarchy tour because JT's hairs grown back a bit

Rip waldo

Tony Wilson and Thunders…damn

So does Walter - crazy good hair.

back when johnny was semi functional

Classic. BEST rock & roll band in the world in 1977. Untouchable. Too bad they never captured their sound correctly on LP Cursed the Dolls & The Heartbreakers

Back in the old MySpace days I emailed Walter Lure a few times and he replied..he told me a story about them doing a TV show up in Manchester (he think?) how he died his hair last minute with food colouring and the stuff started running. He lit a cigarette and his hair went up in flames. This is the show he was talking about. But you don't really see it properly. He's just fanning out what's just burnt. I then read his autobiography and he mentioned the story again. I didn't get it why Billy Rath wasn't up there with them. He can be seen sitting watching the interview instead. In Waldo's book Billy was a dimwit. Maybe that's why they contemplated booting him out at one point and get Nils Stevenson in instead. Billy usually looked shy or paranoid on stage. I didn't realise that he was mainly a speedfreak than a smack head. I heard radio interview Billy gave and he sounded like an alright guy. After the Pistols broke up Sid Vicious thought he was gonna replace Billy in the Heartbreakers. Sid wasn't even asked to contribute to Johnny Thunders' So Alone album. I wonder why.?

I love Bob Millen!

lol...looking like a lesbian! i love johnny's response, "my mother never thought that"

“Their chemicals are, uh... very easy gotten”

"Dee Dee was never gay." Ask Seymour Stein about that.

hilarious

Ask Walter Lure about that.

Johnny dressed fucking great! Im a dork...hang head in shame...

Walter Lure's hair looks like when a 5-year-old kid finds a pair of scissors and cuts their own hair.

true that shit

Walter's hair is amazing. Wondering who did it?

I shared a bill with Walter L....The Bowery....

yeah, ok buddy.

He was so much more than that, though huh :D

Johnny always seems to look like he was embalmed years before he actually died. He made some killer fucking records, though.

Crazy they moved to England to get on the nhs methadone program lol

ciao mein...

@iloveferminA So fucking funny! They kicked so much ass

fu fu fu fu fu funky

are you sure this vid is from '78? that Junkies pin would be 2-3 years old, seems like they are talking about the Anarchy Tour which was '76. Also by '78 JT was mostly in NY doing one reunion show after another and didnt quite look this clean

Nice to see John here as the cocksure New Yorker he once was. I like the interviewer...for a change no sycophant bullshit. Even John found the "lesbian" bit funny. That sadly would change radically during the late 80's, when a mention like that would have him totally defensive and insecure. That Walter Lure had the charismatic presence of a broomstick...just the right bloke John would tolerate next to him on stage, so his star would shine even brighter.

Johnny s voice is shot ...from UK club dates...

Bob Milan?????

2:17 Bob Mylan? does he mean bob Dylan?

Who does jhonny mention after gene Vincent?

Walter lure... still alive to this day. I always wondered if he had a bad drug habit too.

ive seen some interviews and stuff that he also did flirt with a guy a few times after he was done hooking but johnny ramone said hed kick him outta the band in the early days around 75..if its true who knows the early ny days is hard to tell sometimes

Bob Mellon? haha 2:18

Chow mein 😂

God that was louis theroux wasn't it? 😏

Jesus, Johnny has the unhealthiest skin pallour i've ever seen, a mix of grey and greasy white...

Thats Tony Wilson..... Record label prez of Factory Records (Joy Division,Buzzcocks,New Order) I really don't think he is a moron, he's just a legend. With a name like Fabio "Punk" you should know that.

Why didn't Tony Wilson get the Heartbreakers to play live on his show 'So It Goes'? It could have changed everything for the band. Is this the only TV appearance the Heartbreakers did on British TV during the punk days. Shocking!

Chow mein

johnny thunders was not punk.. but rock /roll.. and they were all around long before.. europe jumped on the bandwagon.. so..whats punk to you?

he wore pancake makeup most of the time and besides, You Can't Put Your Arm Around a Memory what KILLER records did he really pen and perform like a professional? the guy was smacked out of his mind 24/7.

What is the drummers name here?!?

No one would ever tell.rappers or grungers how nasty they look

The interviewer is a bit of a NOZZLE. You can see why JT was uncomfortable and reluctant to do the talking during most interviews.

anyone know how old walter was in 78?

tony wilson once again trying too hard to be 'edgy' and divisive. Sad really...

Dee Dee would killed Johnny, the whole band hated his junk habit as well and they still couldnt dump him till 89 i think

thats Anthony Wilson the last true taste maker of the 20th century without him there would of been no joy division, new order, happy mondays, the haciefuckinenda, hes not insulting johnny im tellin ya he would have been pure blunt about it if he was, he is one of the rare few people at the time who gave punk and alternative acts a platform and positive publicity in the UK do your homework kiddies

I didn't like this interview at first thought tony Wilson was being a prick but I've re watched it and think johnny and walter aren't taking the interview very seriously anyway its actually really nice to watch particularly as johnny thunders is looking good before drugs really started to have an impact

Yawning Johnny 😂 Tony Wilson was trying to hard to be splashy...Johnny was chill as always

Strange how when these guys were actually around, nobody cared all that much. Same with the Ramones and everybody else, we just don't appreciate the great ones until they're gone. Eventually, we'll be left with a bunch of crappy tribute bands ruling the music scene.

JT looks a little pail here dope sick

Everybody hating on Wilson forgets about factory records and the hacienda he ingratiated punk as much as a mainstream tv presenter could, like Walter lure him self said less then 10 years later after this interview that working on Wall Street was a means to pay the bills and rent, you can only be in the gutter so long, literally and artistically before it gets sad or kills you, shit Wilson was a degenerate in Sheeps clothing and an amazing taste maker. Doyah reeasearch before ya start blabbing shit

Johnny looks like a corpse in this

Ya know he did kinda look like a lesbian on the 1st Album cover, but the guy was being kind of rude for pointing it out to his face..

Interviewer is embarrassingly bad

wth? looking like a lesbian? what rock did that guy climb out from under??

Walter is Bi.

Punk Rock was the answer to Disco..younmyst understand that the only other music going on was DISCO.

@youhavegeniusshins Heroin will do that to ya.

i never heard johnny sound like this.his voice later got high and whiny.

*Hahahaha!* Tony Wilson looks like an old lesbian... What a fool.

Wilson was a boy

was Johnny gay?

What's the obsession with homosexuality? Who cares? And what the fuck is the interviewer going on about Thunders "looking like a lesbian"? No wonder so many musicians hate doing interviews.