The first track on their first album immediately demonstrates how the Dolls built raw excitement from distorted power chords and prison-break drums, not to mention Johansen’s antic singing.
In the 1970s, he and the transgressive Dolls were proto-punk pioneers. He later refashioned himself as the pompadoured lounge lizard Buster Poindexter. The singer David Johansen in 2004.
David Johansen, the singer from seminal punk band the New York Dolls, has died at the age of 75. Formed in the early 1970s, the New York Dolls redefined rock and roll, providing the blueprint for ...
New York Dolls singer David Johansen has died after silently battling Stage 4 cancer for several years, Fox News Digital confirmed. Johansen's wife, Mara Hennessey, told Fox News Digital he died ...
NEW YORK — David Johansen, the wiry, gravelly-voiced singer and last surviving member of the glam and protopunk band the New York Dolls who later performed as his campy, pompadoured alter ego ...
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(Photo by Christopher Smith/Invision/AP) The New York Dolls are photographed in New York, July 25, 2006. From left are David Johansen, Sami Yaffa, Steve Conte, Sylvain Sylvain, Brian Delaney, rear, ...
David Johansen, who died February 28 at 75, helped record the soundtrack to glam-punk rock as lead singer of the groundbreaking New York Dolls. Songs like “Personality Crisis” and “Trash ...
Barbie is honoring women in music with two new dolls representing two important roles: musical artist and tour manager. The doll brand teamed up with Grammy award-winning singer Alicia Keys ...
Legendary New York Dolls rocker David Johansen has died at age 75. His stepdaughter Leah Hennessey confirmed the sad news, saying the punk icon had passed away Friday at his home on Staten Island.
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