My wife, Carola Dibbell, reviewed it for The Village Voice, providing a firsthand historical account of how Johansen presented himself in what was already a bleak time for him: “Too smart not to survive and too smart to be boring about it,

As the front man of the New York Dolls, Johansen was instrumental in the genesis of punk in the nineteen-seventies. His solo work was equally audacious.

Tons of tributes have arrived following the passing of a true music legend – David Johansen of the New York Dolls – who passed at the age of 75 on Saturday, March 1, after revealing only weeks prior he had been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer.

Jersey musicians are mourning the passing of David Johansen, founder and frontman of the New York Dolls, who died Friday, Feb. 28.

"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