From our July 2023 issue, Uncut interviews David Johansen, the New York Dolls frontman turned nightclub act, country-blues ...
David Johansen, the gravelly-voiced singer, was last surviving member of the glam and protopunk band the New York Dolls.
My wife, Carola Dibbell, reviewed it for The Village Voice, providing a firsthand historical account of how Johansen presented himself in what was already a bleak time for him: “Too smart not to ...
The man who stood in front of the Dolls, often in heavy makeup and with various parts of his torso unclothed, was David ...
David Johansen, the lead singer and last surviving original member of the band New York Dolls, has died at 75.
Goodbye to David ... queens like the Ronettes and the Shangri-Las, cosplaying as bad girls and teetering on their high heels. As Johansen told Rolling Stone in 1972, “We like to look 16 and ...
Johansen began singing with a local band on Staten Island, the Vagabond Missionaries, in the 1960s. A decade later he joined ...
produced David Johansen, one of its most outrageous frontmen. Johansen led the New York Dolls, five bright-eyed boys who dressed flamboyantly and dreamed of sounding like the Shirelles crossed ...
NEW YORK, March 1 (Reuters) - David Johansen, the former lead singer for ... he made it work! You and I would look like absolute idiots but he looked cool," Abramson said. "And he was able to ...
My wife, Carola Dibbell, reviewed it for The Village Voice, providing a firsthand historical account of how Johansen ... thinks I look fruity, but in jeans I feel rockin'”), like “Wreckless ...
"Some people would do, like ... David Bowie and T. Rex, among others. Led by Johansen, the Dolls stood out from even their most colorful peers thanks to striking stagewear and androgynous looks ...