The New York Dolls did everything, but they did it first

Johnny Thunders was their darkest guitarslinger and one of the inspirations for Johnny Ramone to pick up the guitar

Richard Hell was a would be poet who came to New York to reinvent himself and wound up having a hand in inventing what became 'Punk rock'

Dee Dee Ramone auditioned as a guitar player with the Neon Boys, a band featuring Richard Hell on bass and Tom Verlaine on guitar that would eventually evolve into Television

As he couldn't really play, he never got the gig, but he stayed friendly with Hell and the Ramones were soon to be found gracing the stage that Television had helped build at CBGB's

When the New York Dolls split up at the same time as Richard Hell walked out of Television, he walked straight into The Heartbreakers, along with Johnny Thunders and Dolls drummer Jerry Nolan, closely followed by Walter Lure

And they all loved music, they all had a sense of their own style, and they all loved heroin, so much so that they considered calling the band The Junkies, just like on this bootleg single

One day Richard Hell said to Dee Dee 'I'm gonna write a song as good as The Velvet Underground's Heroin'

Inspired by this, Dee Dee went back and started writing Chinese rocks, the street name for a type of heroin at the time

Johnny Ramone didn't want the Ramones to be associated with hard drugs, so Dee Dee brought it along to a Heartbreakers practice where they fleshed it out and added the guitar break in the middle

It became the Heartbreakers first single in 1977, after Hell had left the band, and the Ramones only got round to recording their version in 1980

The Ramones stayed friends with the Heartbreakers with guitarist Walter Lure accompanying Johnnys playing with his own style on Subterranean Jungle, Too Tough To Die and Animal Boy and Johnny Thunders drummer Billy Rogers replaced Marky Ramone on Subterranean Jungle and also playing on Dee Dee's Latest And Greatest

Walter Lure and Johnny Thunders 

Walter Lure apparently works as a stock broker on wall street, but still plays with his own band, The Waldos

If you see anything by any of these people, buy it

You wont be disappointed