David Johansen, the gravelly-voiced showman who helped ignite the punk rock movement as the vocalist of the New York Dolls before he recorded “Hot Hot Hot” as the lounge lizard Buster Poindexter and acted in Scrooged, has died. He was 75.
Johansen died Friday at his home in Staten Island, his stepdaughter, Leah Hennessey, told The New York Times.
Hennessy revealed Feb. 10 that Johansen had been battling Stage 4 cancer for a decade, had a brain tumor and had broken his back in a fall just after Thanksgiving. The family asked for donations to help with their medical expenses.
The outlandish and raw New York Dolls, fond of vulgarity and dressing in drag, were comprised of Johansen, guitarists Sylvain Sylvain and Johnny Thunders, bassist Arthur Kane and drummer Jerry Nolan when they laid down in eight days their eponymous breakthrough album, produced by Todd Rundgren for Mercury Records, in 1973.
“We went into a room and just recorded,...
Johansen died Friday at his home in Staten Island, his stepdaughter, Leah Hennessey, told The New York Times.
Hennessy revealed Feb. 10 that Johansen had been battling Stage 4 cancer for a decade, had a brain tumor and had broken his back in a fall just after Thanksgiving. The family asked for donations to help with their medical expenses.
The outlandish and raw New York Dolls, fond of vulgarity and dressing in drag, were comprised of Johansen, guitarists Sylvain Sylvain and Johnny Thunders, bassist Arthur Kane and drummer Jerry Nolan when they laid down in eight days their eponymous breakthrough album, produced by Todd Rundgren for Mercury Records, in 1973.
“We went into a room and just recorded,...
- 3/1/2025
- by Mike Barnes
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