David Johansen, the frontman and last surviving member of proto-punk band New York Dolls, who went on to become a lounge singer under the name Buster Poindexter and act in films such as “Scrooged,” ...

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, Buster ...

David Johansen on stage with the New York Dolls: ‘We were really into confronting the audience – Hey, you stupid bastards. Get up and dance’ - Richard Creamer/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images David ...

Why did you record in Newcastle? We’d played there before, and we seemed to mesh with the populace so seamlessly that I hardly even noticed I wasn’t at home. I loved the place, and didn’t really have ...

New York Dolls singer David Johansen helped pioneer glam rock and punk in the early 1970s. His band was at the forefront of an emerging scene in New York City that paved the way for Blondie, Ramones, ...

The New York Dolls didn’t disappear after their second album flopped in the marketplace. There were even the occasional shows — one where the rejiggered band dressed all in red, and later a May 1976 ...

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“Really, what makes the Dolls so eternal is the attitude – it got into rock’s water supply and never left.” I keep telling young friends in shiny-new rock bands that half the battle in becoming a ...

The last album that Guns N' Roses released before the band's original core fell apart was the 1993 covers collection The Spaghetti Incident?. On that one, GN'R paid tribute to the bands that inspired ...