David Johansen’s Debauched, Preening Brilliance
This past Friday, the singer David Johansen, perhaps best known as the debauched, preening front man of the New York Dolls, a band essential to the genesis of punk rock in New York City in the nineteen-seventies, died of cancer, at age seventy-five. The Dolls released five studio albums over a thirty-eight year period, beginning … Read more