Farewell to David Johansen, New York Dolls frontman

David Johansenfather of the bright glam-punk deel group New York Dolls And who later had a second part of his career as a fake lounge singer: Buster POINDEXTERdied yesterday (February 28) in New York after a long battle against cancer.
In recent weeks, Johansen has made his health situation public: the diagnosis of cancer at the fourth stadium (theeggi here), a brain cancer and a fall the day after the thanks that left him with his back broken in two points. With a declaration, in conjunction with the launch of a fundraising campaign, his family had made it known that he was “completely forced to bed, unable to understand and want, with cure 24 hours a day”.

In 1971, Johansen joined guitarists Johnny Thunders and Sylvain Sylvain, the bassist Arthur “Killer” Kane and the drummer Billy Murcia to form New York Dolls. Their first show was held on Christmas Eve of that year in a refuge for homelessness at the Highott Hotel. In a short time they became a point of reference at the Mercer Arts Center in New York. Their self -marked record debut of 1973, produced by Todd Rundgrenbecame one of the most significant albums of the pre-Punk era, despite being a commercial failure published by a large label.

“The Dolls dominated the chicken coop of New York,” the co -founder of the DictatorsAndy Shernoff. “Each band tried to imitate the dolls. But no group was as beautiful as the Dolls, or it was fashionable as the Dolls, or had beautiful songs like Dolls, or played as well as the Dolls. They were exciting and charismatic. In England there were many glam bands that made great records: the Sweet, the Roxy Music, the Slade, sucks Quatro. The New York Dolls brought that excitement. In the local scene of New York and have inspired many people to found bands, including me.
After the debut for the New York Dolls, another album arrives “TOo Much Too Soon“Published in 1974 followed by the dissolution of the band.
After the implosion of the Dolls in 1976, Johansen continues his career as a solo artist with various projects, until he got to success in 1987 Buster POINDEXTER Thanks to the song “Hot Hot Hot“.

“It is interesting that Caribbean music is identified with the story of Buster,” he said years ago in an interview with Spin. “Most of the music we played for the first two years was Jump Blues. We made a Latin disc. ‘Hot Hot Hot’ was just a song that I had heard, like, to Tortola or somewhere else. But it’s a great song. Everyone is tired because it was used until the exhaustion. But, friend, that Buster stuff was a great concert.”

On the wave of success in 1988 he also made a memorable cameo in the role of the ghost of Christmas in Bill Murray’s film “Scrooged”.
After a 28 -year -old break, the Dolls gathered in 2004 by the will of the watery fan Morrissey and released three new studio albums, the last of which was “Dancing Backward in High Heels” of 2011.

“My experience is that different people recognize me for different reasons,” said Johansen. “For example, some people will say: ‘Oh, there is that guy who sang’ Hot Hot Hot ”. Or: ‘Here is the guy of the Dolls’. Once he continued – I was doing petrol and there were two guys who worked there. They thought they were not at the ear, but one of the two says:” Who is that guy? ”

Johansen was recently (2023) the “subject” of the documentary of Martin Scorsese “Personality Crisis”, who told the life of the teenager artist in New York in the 1960s, before he became famous with the Dolls.