After the original New York Dolls broke up, Johnny Thunders —who had been the Dolls' Keith Richards to David Johansen's Mick Jagger —and Jerry Nolan formed the Heartbreakers, first as a trio with former Television bassist Richard Hell, who soon left to lead his own band, the Voidoids. If the New York Dolls were a precursor to punk rockers, then the Heartbreakers served as a living bridge to it —updating classic Rolling Stones-style, sneering two-guitar rock in prototypical fast-and-furious style. With Thunders' shambling, drugged-out, foul-mouthed onstage charm, and songs like "Chinese Rocks" and "Too Much Junkie Business" celebrating the heroin-junkie lifestyle, these Heartbreakers could not be confused with Tom Petty's backup band