As the frontman of the New York Dolls, Johansen was instrumental in the genesis of punk in the nineteen-seventies. His solo ...
My wife, Carola Dibbell, reviewed it for The Village Voice, providing a firsthand historical account of how Johansen ...
David Johansen was the last surviving member of the New York Dolls, a band celebrated with inspiring the glam movement.
But his eternal-kid energy shone through on songs like this starry-eyed glam anthem. “Jumpin’ round the stage like teenage ...
David Johansen, who segued from being the New York Dolls frontman to his Buster Poindexter alter ego and back again, has died ...
In a statement shared with Vulture, Scorsese remembers the grit and “energy” of New York that came alongside Johansen’s work.
He never stopped growing as a songwriter and a singer, always exploring,” filmmaker, who helmed Johansen doc Personality ...
Johansen also had a successful solo career as lounge singer Buster Poindexter David Johansen, the lead singer of New York ...
David Johansen has died. Although best known and celebrated for his work as lead singer of formative American punk band New ...
In the 1970s, he and the transgressive Dolls were proto-punk pioneers. He later refashioned himself as the pompadoured lounge ...