The New York Dolls were forerunners of punk, and the band’s style inspired the glam movement

The punk icon led the New York Dolls and later performed as Buster Poindexter.

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...

Flamboyant singer helped point his city’s music scene towards punk, before a successful solo career and eye-catching acting roles

David Johansen, the frontman for proto-punk band New York Dolls and actor known for his work in the Bill Murray classic "Scrooged," has died. Johansen...

He looked the part – and sounded even better. And the frontman of New York Dolls, who has died aged 75, was deeper than many gave him credit for

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

The New York Dolls frontman has died aged 75

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David Johansen, the frontman of punk band the New York Dolls, has died. He was 75. The musician, who also performed under the pseudonym Buster...