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I was thinking about the late great David Johansen and started to jot down some notes, and they got a little long so I parked them over here: https://gsaich.wordpress.com/2025/05/30/remembering-david-johansen/
I was traveling last week and only just heard today that David Johansen died. I don't generally like to go around eulogizing geriatric rock stars, but damn, this feels like kind of a loss.
The New York Dolls were in their prime around the time I was in the womb, but they were still local heroes in NYC even when I was a teenager (it's absurd how many Johnny Thunders wannabes you could find roaming St. Marks Place on a Friday night ca. 1994 -- well after the rest of the world had moved on from big hair).
Also, I'm not sure when cross-dressing was legalized in NYC, but if it was before the Dolls started, it wasn't long before, and they still deserve credit for jumping in head-first (in platforms!), if you ask me.
Anyways, RIP, y'old dog. Hope it wasn't too painful.
David Johansen died at the weekend at the age of 75, meaning all founding members of The New York Dolls are now gone. The band never had a top 100 hit, but @RollingStone's critic Robert Christgau says they still changed the world. Here's his story of the band, from the first gig he attended in 1972 to the 2005 album, "Some Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This."
I was a punk rocker and a big fan of David Johansen and the New York Dolls. Fun Fact: My mom dated a very buttoned-up Republican type who was a huge Buster Poindexter fan and had *no idea* about David Johansen. #davidjohansen #busterpoindexter
Via con dios #DavidJohansen 
He was all of it, and the last New York Doll
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David Johansen, who fronted the legendary 1970s proto-punk band New York Dolls and also recorded under the pseudonym Buster Poindexter, has died at 75, his representative confirmed. Johansen was the subject of a documentary from directors Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi, “Personality Crisis: One Night Only.”
“I’ve known David Johansen for decades, and his music has been a touchstone ever since I listened to the Dolls when I was making 'Mean Streets,'” Scorsese said when he announced the film. “Then and now, David’s music captures the energy and excitement of New York City.” Read more @pitchfork:
#DavidJohansen has died at the age of 75 after being diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. Johansen was known for his work as the lead singer of the seminal proto-punk band the New York Dolls.
https://time.com/7263313/david-johansen-dead-singer-new-york-dolls-tributes/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky
(1/9/1950 - 2/28/2025)
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David Johansen has died.
This is a drawing of the New York Dolls’ debut album from 1973 that I drew a while ago.
Listen to: Personality Crisis https://song.link/gb/i/1473834353
#DavidJohansen was somebody I loved before I even first really got into punk rock music because of his acting career, with Scrooged being a classic every Christmas for our family and me loving every episode of The Adventures of Pete & Pete where he was among many punk icons to cameo.
His music with the New York Dolls remains some of my favorite music to come out of the #70s it was trashy and androgynous and a lil queer in a way so many bands were afraid to be at that time.
