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Sadly, The New York Dolls lost it's voice Friday.
I got a tear over this one. I've been a fan of David Johansen and Buster Poindexter since the beginning. His songs have spanned a few relationships. They collapsed the old Broadway Central Hotel, for chrissakes.
His untimely finale was due too a recently discovered stage 4 cancer and a brain tumor. Judging his insane stage show I suspect the tumor may have been there all along, but I digress. He was 75. RIP David.
Rolling Stone once called the Dolls “the mutant children of the hydrogen age”. In the '80s Johansen adopted the persona of Buster Poindexter, a 1930s Lounge Lizard. The CD that always makes me smile.
The song that brought down the house. Here on "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert". Remember that show?
Rolling Stone once called the Dolls “the mutant children of the hydrogen age”
This our old friend Buster Poindexter: