Alexander von Zimlinsky was born in Austria, studied piano at the Vienna Conservatory, gave music lessons to Schoenberg, moved to the US, and died in New York in 1942. Johnny Thunders was born in New York ten years later, played rock and roll music and is known for his distinctive guitar playing with The Heartbreakers and New York Dolls. Both musicians, that is where the similarities end.

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