Johansen died on Friday (February 28) at his New York City home, according to a family spokesperson. The punk icon revealed his battle with stage four cancer in February 2025, after suffering a ...

David Johansen, who segued from being the New York Dolls frontman to his Buster Poindexter alter ego and back again, has died at age 75.

But a fall around Thanksgiving 2024 “brought us to a whole new level of debilitation,” he revealed at the time. New York Dolls was a short-lived but memorable punk band of the 70s. After the ...

In the New York Dolls, Johansen defined an era when ‘70s glam rock was getting leaner and meaner as the seeds of punk rock began to sow. With a transgressive gender-bending style — lipstick ...

David Johansen, the larger-than-life frontman of the 1970s proto-punk band New York Dolls, has died. He was 75. The singer's daughter, Leah Hennessey, told PEOPLE that Johansen died in his New ...

The New York Dolls were forerunners of punk and the band’s style – teased ... breaking up after two albums by the middle of the ’70s. In 2004, former Smiths frontman and Dolls admirer ...

the former lead singer for the New York Dolls, whose unvarnished sound and flamboyant style helped inspire punk and glam rock in the 1970s, has died at age 75, his wife Mara Hennessey said on ...

David Johansen with the New York Dolls in 1973 (photo: Richard Creamer / Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images). David Johansen, whose flamboyant style turned glam-punk progenitors the New York ...