NEW YORK (AP) — David Johansen, the wiry, gravelly-voiced singer and last surviving member of the glam and protopunk band the ...
David Johansen, the frontman and last surviving member of proto-punk band New York Dolls, who went on to become a lounge ...
In the 1970s, he and the transgressive Dolls were proto-punk pioneers. He later refashioned himself as the pompadoured lounge ...
He also appeared in such movies as “Candy Mountain,” “Let It Ride,” “Married to the Mob” and had a memorable turn as the Ghost of Christmas Past in the Bill Murray-led hit “Scrooged.” ...
and the two became close friends while working on ‘Scrooged,’ which Glazer wrote with Murray starring. Since then they’ve worked together off and on –– Glazer produced ‘Lost in ...
Johansen also worked in film and television, playing the Ghost of Christmas Past in 1988’s “Scrooged” opposite ... And by the end of four weeks… it started out as a three-piece band ...