My wife, Carola Dibbell, reviewed it for The Village Voice, providing a firsthand historical account of how Johansen ...

As the frontman of the New York Dolls, Johansen was instrumental in the genesis of punk in the nineteen-seventies. His solo ...

David Johansen was the last surviving member of the New York Dolls, a band celebrated with inspiring the glam movement.

But his eternal-kid energy shone through on songs like this starry-eyed glam anthem. “Jumpin’ round the stage like teenage ...

David Johansen, who segued from being the New York Dolls frontman to his Buster Poindexter alter ego and back again, has died ...

The New York Dolls didn’t crack the Top 100, but they changed the world, and critic Robert Christgau was on the scene to see ...

David Johansen has died. Although best known and celebrated for his work as lead singer of formative American punk band New ...

In the 1970s, he and the transgressive Dolls were proto-punk pioneers. He later refashioned himself as the pompadoured lounge ...

In a statement shared with Vulture, Scorsese remembers the grit and “energy” of New York that came alongside Johansen’s work.

Johansen also had a successful solo career as lounge singer Buster Poindexter David Johansen, the lead singer of New York ...