David Johasen, New York Dolls and Buster Poindexter Singer, Killed in 75
David Johasen, the main and multitalented main singer and native member who survived the New York Dolls seminal proto-glam-dolls band who also discovered fame in the 1980s and 90s as the Poindexter buster singer, had died at the age of 75 years.
Johansen died on Friday afternoon in his room, surrounded by flowers and music and holding hands with his wife, Mara Hennessey, and Leah stepchildren, Hennessey confirmed to ABC News.
“We have an extraordinary adventure of life together. He is an extraordinary man. So thankful we go public with news of his illness before his death because the last few weeks have been full of messages and love from family, friends, “Fans,” Hennessey told ABC News in a statement.
Johansen’s stepfather, Leah Hennessey, revealed that in February that Johansen had “underwent intensive treatment for stage 4 cancer for the past most of the decades,” which had spread to his brain five years earlier. He said Johansen also broke his back in two places on the stairs down a day after Thanksgiving 2024.
David Johansen from New York Dolls appeared on stage at the forum in North London.
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“Because of trauma, David’s disease has developed exponentially and my mother carries it all the time,” Hennessey wrote on a website for sweet assistance musicians funds, non -profit charity bodies that provide financial assistance and others for musicians in need.
“We have long lived with my illness, still having fun, seeing friends and family, continued, but this falls a day after Thanksgiving really brings us to a completely new port level,” said Johasen in a Rolling Stone statement. “This is the worst pain I’ve ever experienced throughout my life. I never asked for help, but this is an emergency. “
Born January 9, 1950 in the New York City region in Staten Island, Johasen performed with local bands before joining what was later known as a doll in 1971 as their singer and songwriter. Changing their names into New York dolls, the band made a single spark on the New York music scene with their voices that were stripped and driving, coupled with the presence of Androgynous, the presence above the stage that boasted large hair, makeup, high heels, velvet and spandex.
In this February 10 1974 file, the member of the New York Dolls rock band is displayed. LR: Arthur Kane, Jerry Nolan, David Johasen, Sylvain Sylvain, and Johnny Thunders.
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New York dolls have never achieved commercial success that extended during the heyday of their 1970s and was dissolved in 1976 after years of changing and personnel, after only recording two albums-“New York Dolls” and “Too Too Sour but regardless of their abbreviated term, dolls-New York gave an invalidable basic influence Aerosmith, sex pistols, kisses, clashes, David Bowie, Morrissey, Billy Idol, brakes, Joan Jett and many inspire them.
The visual aesthetics of the doll in particular helped give birth to a metal hair scene in the 1980s, with their appearance to be imitated by bands -bands such as Poison, Twisted Sister and Mötley Crüe.
Although they were never inaugurated, the New York doll was nominated three times to be included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: in 2001, 2021 and 2022.
In February 19, 2016, photo files, buster Poindexter singers, A/K/A David Johansen, appeared at City Winery in New York.
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After a few years as a solo artist, Johansen changed his name in the 1980s as the singer Lounge Lounge Buster Buster which is loaded with Tuksedo. With the band The Banshees of Blue, he scored the Hit Billboard Hot 100 Simple with the cover of the Jive-Infused Dance song 1987 “Hot Hot Hot,” the only hit single Johasen.
Johasen recorded four albums as POINDEXTER EBULLIENT, to be in the process of the presence of frequent tonight Talk Show. He also appeared as Poindexter with the “Saturday Night Live” home band for the 1986-1987 performance season.
Johansen continued the following years to do and record Solo and with various other bands, including his own blues, Harry Smiths, in the early 2000s. He reunited briefly around the same time as a former member of New York Dolls, recorded three more albums and did a show and a direct tour occasionally.
Johansen also enjoyed his career as an actor, including impressive changes as a ghost of cigar who grumbled, wisecracking, and driving in Bill Murray in the 1988 Hit comedy “Scroged.”
David Johasen as a ghost of Christmas and Bill Murray was displayed in a scene of the 1988 film comedy “Scroged.”
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In 2023, the influence of half a century Johansen on music was celebrated in A documentary Entitled “Personality Crisis: One Night Only,” directed by Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi, which featured records of Johansen’s Cabaret at Café Carlyle in New York, in his 70th birthday celebration.
“Vegetarian, straight, gay, whatever,” Johansen said about his legacy in the film trailer. “I just want to drop the wall and have a party.”
In December 4, 2009, photo files, singer David Johansen appeared directly on the stage at the Kentish Town Forum in London.
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Johansen married three times and divorced twice. He survived his wife, artist Mara Hennessey, who he married in 2013, and their daughter.
