Walter Lure, who played rhythm guitar for the Heartbreakers, a pioneering band of the 1970s New York punk scene, and who had a most unpunk second career on Wall Street, died on Aug. 21 at in Queens. Mr. Lure’s current group, Walter Lure and the Waldos, confirmed his death, at Flushing Hospital. The Heartbreakers were together for a brief three years and recorded only one studio album, L.A.M.F., released in 1977 on the British label Track Records. But among the bands that clustered around downtown clubs like Max’s Kansas City and CBGB during the early punk years, the Heartbreakers had an outsize reputation. “But they’re kind of like mythical, you know, because no one ever saw them.

Source: New York Times August 27, 2020 19:18 UTC