The Tao of David Johansen
The New York Dolls didn’t crack the Top 100, but they changed the world, and critic Robert Christgau was on the scene to see ...
David Johansen, New York Dolls frontman with alter ego Buster Poindexter, dies at 75
David Johansen, who segued from being the New York Dolls frontman to his Buster Poindexter alter ego and back again, has died ...
David Johansen: His Life In Photos
David Johansen, the groundbreaking punk musician and tastemaker who shook up fashion's then-rigid gender norms, died on ...
David Johansen, Who Fronted the New York Dolls and More, Dies at 75
In the 1970s, he and the transgressive Dolls were proto-punk pioneers. He later refashioned himself as the pompadoured lounge ...
Farewell, David Johansen, the Ultimate New York Doll: He Was Good-Bad But Not Evil
Goodbye to David Johansen, the last jet boy standing from the New York Dolls. It wasn’t just his madman energy that helped invent punk rock — it was his warmth and soul. He got a loving send-off in ...
Martin Scorsese on David Johansen: “The energy was New York, 100% pure and uncut”
David Johansen, one of history’s most consequential New York rockers, died yesterday, and his absence will be felt throughout the Five Boroughs for some time to come. Few could verbalize what Johansen ...
Celebrity couples attend the Oscars
Zoe Saldana and Marco Perego, Adrien Brody and Georgina Chapman, and Kieran Culkin and Jazz Charton were among the couples ...
David Johansen on the New York Dolls’ Colorful History: The Lost Interview
David Johansen, who died in February at 75, talks about the history of the New York Dolls, drugs, and fashion in the Village, in this lost interview.