Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers
‘L.A.M.F. – the lost ’77 mixes’

Remastered 40th anniversary edition

note - ***NOT the 2021 'Found' Masters - that 2CD set is also in our store***

2017 edition: Gatefold card CD wallet, includes 20-page booklet with notes and lyrics.

The Heartbreakers – Johnny Thunders, Walter Lure, Billy Rath (replacing Richard Hell) and Jerry Nolan – were formed in 1975 out of the ashes of the New York Dolls.  In 1977 they were at the centre of the London punk scene, having been invited by the Sex Pistols onto the infamous 'Anarchy Tour'.  UK punks treated the US band as rock royalty because of their New York Dolls pedigree.  Pistols' manager Malcolm McLaren had briefly managed the Dolls in New York.

Signing to The Who's label, Track Records, they were treated to the best recording studios in London to record their only album, 'L.A.M.F.'.  But when the LP came out, there was universal criticism of the sound quality.  Journalists who'd been championing the band such as Jon Savage, Julie Burchill, Nick Kent, Tony Parsons et al criticised the 'muddy mix', and drummer Jerry Nolan left the band because of it.

Both Track Records and the Heartbreakers ran out of money and collapsed when the album didn't sell to expectations.  Manager Leee Black Childers broke into the bankrupt Track offices to retrieve the multitracks and many mixes (though not the master), leading to efforts to remix the album in 1984 and finally, after Johnny and Jerry's death, to recompile it in 1994.  Since then, it's been regularly acclaimed as a classic:-

"That 'L.A.M.F.', the only album by Johnny Thunders' swaggering, smacked-up post New York Dolls outfit, The Heartbreakers, is one of New York punk's defining artefacts (despite being recorded in Britain), is beyond dispute.  12 songs that put the guitarist's abiding passions - Chuck Berry, The Rolling Stones, Phil Spector and Shadow Morton girl groups, glam, garage, trash and junk - in perfect, speedy collision." - Damien Love, Uncut magazine, 9/10 review.

To coincide with the album's 40th anniversary in 2017, it's been repackaged and remastered. The album comes with a 20-page booklet with the background story by Johnny Thunders' biographer Nina Antonia, together with lyrics.  Nina’s ‘Johnny Thunders – In Cold Blood’ biography is due to coincide as its first e-book publication.

Recently Walter Lure, the co-frontman, songwriter and sole surviving Heartbreaker, has been performing ‘L.A.M.F.’ with an all-star line-up.  In late in 2016 with Clem Burke of Blondie, Tommy Stinson of The Replacements and Guns & Roses, and Wayne Kramer of the MC5, a live gig was filmed for a forthcoming DVD, CD and LP album release, 'LAMF live at the Bowery Electric' (all available here shortly).  More Walter dates, again with Clem Burke but this time along with Mike Ness of Social Distortion and Glen Matlock of the Sex Pistols have been announced for both east and west coasts of the USA in late November/early December 2017.

Catalogue number: FREUDCD044R

Also available: 'L.A.M.F. the FOUND '77 Masters' - 2CD book package.  Search our ebay shop!

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