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Johnny 'Guitar' Watson was born on 1935-02-03.
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Johnny Guitar - song - was created in 1954.
He had a heart attack.It's the dream of every performing artist: to end life with a show. Johnny "Guitar" Watson had the luck to die on stage. He just started his opening song, when he collapsed on stage, in the Ocean Boulevard Blues Café in Yokohama, Japan, May 19, 1996. He was declared dead shortly later in the hospital.Watson, besides as a composer, arranger, pianist and guitarist, was known as a comedian, especially joking about his own abilities (like in Gangster Of Love). Funny or not, singing the phrase "stronger than a locomotive" in his hit Superman Lover, he felt down on the bandstand.One chapter of my biography The Gangster of Love - Johnny "Guitar" Watson: Performer, Preacher, Pimp (USA, 2009) is dedicated to his tragic and humorous death. For a large part of his audience it took a while to realize that their hero performed his final, fatal act.- Vincent Bakker.
Johnny Ramone played guitar in The Ramones