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Billy Murcia (October 9, 1951 – November 6, 1972) was an American musician who was the original drummer for the New York Dolls. Biography. Murcia was born in Bogotá, Colombia, and raised in Jackson Heights, New York, United States. He and Sylvain Sylvain both attended Quintano's School for Young Professionals, in the late sixties.
A posthumous New York Dolls album, Lipstick Killers, made up of early demo tapes of the original Dolls (with Billy Murcia on drums), was released in a cassette-only edition on ROIR Records in 1981, and subsequently re-released on CD, and then on vinyl in early 2006.
Jul 27, 2023 · New York Dolls. at 50. Once, my grandmother told me about taking the floral hat pin she kept tucked in her coat lapel to stab a man who tried to attack her on the subway. I found myself laughing ...
Jul 15, 2018 · Billy Murcia, a first-generation immigrant from Columbia was the drummer, Sylvain Sylvain, whose parents were Egyptian Jews, was the guitarist, with Johnny Thunders, who was from an Italian family ...
Apr 14, 2023 · In one scene of the doc, an interviewer mentions drummer Billy Murcia’s death at age 21 and asks if Johansen ever worried about an early death himself. “No,” he says. “I never learned my ...
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Jul 27, 2023 · Drummer Billy Murcia’s family came to the city from Colombia. As they started to put the band together, a local Italian kid — John Anthony Genzale — got their attention. As with many young bands, musical considerations were secondary to pursuits governed by teenage hormones.
Oct 1, 2008 · Thunders and Murcia’s replacement, Jerry Nolan, left the Dolls in 1975 to form the Heartbreakers and the New York Dolls finally fizzled out by 1977. Nonetheless, their influence remained potent through the early Eighties, when Mötley Crüe became a sensation on Hollywood’s Sunset Strip with their outrageous glam get-ups and we-don’t-give ...
