Jonathan Richman is one of the most popular and richest Guitarist who was born on May 16, 1951 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Founding member of seminal proto-punk group The Modern Lovers, who set the stage for the New Wave, punk rock and indie music.
His music style established the style for groups such as the His musical style set the tone for groups like Rivers Cuomo‘s band Weezer.’s group Weezer.
Born in Natick, Massachusetts, into a Jewish family, Richman began playing music and writing his own songs in the mid-1960s. He became infatuated with the Velvet Underground, and in 1969, he moved to New York City, lived on the couch of their manager, Steve Sesnick, worked odd jobs and tried to break in as a professional musician. Failing at this, he returned to Boston.
Late-1970s studio recordings, such as the Rock and Roll with the Modern Lovers album, also featured Richman playing nylon-stringed acoustic guitar. On a 1979 performance on French television, and in the cover photo of The Best of Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers, Richman plays a late-1970s Ibanez model 2453CW hollow-body electric guitar, a guitar similar in style to the Epiphone he would use extensively a decade later.
His birthplace was Boston, Massachusetts, home of The Velvet Underground, on which he built a lot the music he composed.
