But his eternal-kid energy shone through on songs like this starry-eyed glam anthem. “Jumpin’ round the stage like teenage girls/Castin’ our swine before the pearls,” Johansen sang gleefully, as if the Dolls’ Seventies party never ended.

He never stopped growing as a songwriter and a singer, always exploring,” filmmaker, who helmed Johansen doc Personality Crisis: One Night Only, says of late artist

From Wayne Osmond to Gene Hackman to Michelle Trachtenberg, we’ve marked the loss of many beloved or notable celebrities who have died this year.

Johansen, a pioneer in punk music who found solo success under the moniker Buster Poindexter, died on Friday. His family announced last month that he had been in treatment for advanced stage cancer.