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Johansen began his career in the late 1960s as the lead singer of the Vagabond Missionaries, a local Staten Island band [8] and later in the early 1970s as the singer/songwriter in the proto-punk band the New York Dolls. [9] The New York Dolls were in the Mercer's scene, appearing on the bill at a New Year's Eve 1972 gig with Ruby and the ...
David Johansen — the sole surviving founding member of the New York Dolls and a solo artist who also performs as the lounge singer Buster Poindexter — is suffering from stage four cancer, a ...
According to AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine, the New York Dolls developed an original style of hard rock that presaged both punk rock and heavy metal music, and drew on elements such as the "dirty rock & roll" of the Rolling Stones, the "anarchic noise" of the Stooges, the glam rock of David Bowie and T. Rex, and girl group pop music. [1]
Punk legend David Johansen's family is raising funds to pay for his stage 4 cancer treatment. The actor and former New York Dolls frontman has been living with cancer for nearly a decade and a ...
One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This is the third studio album by the American hard rock band New York Dolls. It was the group's first release of original material since their 1974 album Too Much Too Soon. The album was produced by Jack Douglas and written mostly by band members David Johansen and Sylvain Sylvain.
Daughter of David Johansen — the legendary singer of the New York Dolls — says that her father is "totally with us —mentally, emotionally" following a bad fall on Thanksgiving Leah Hennessey ...
The David Johansen Group Live was originally a promotional-only LP released by David Johansen to help promote his solo career away from the New York Dolls. The nine tracks from the promotional LP were recorded on July 21, 1978 at the New York's The Bottom Line. In 1993, a CD was released of the full 18 songs from the 1978 concert.
David Johansen, an actor and popular singer with the New York Dolls, is “bedridden and incapacitated,” according to his daughter. The Sweet Relief Musicians Fund recently hosted an online ...