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Guns N’ Roses returned to Abu Dhabi Tuesday night for a show at the Etihad Arena. This was their fourth visit to the United Arab Emirates since 2017, and they mixed up the setlist for the occasion and brought out some surprises. The most notable one came near the end …

Unlike the other New York Dolls — the band he didn’t quite invent but came to personify after he was recruited when geeky bassist Arthur Kane and doomed drummer Billy Murcia knocked on his door in 1971 and asked if he’d join — David Johansen grew up solidly middle class …

Three years ago, in the midst of researching my book Talkin’ Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America’s Bohemian Music Capital, I knew I had to talk to David Johansen. Not because Johansen — who died Feb. 28 at the age of 75 —was one of those …

Martin Scorsese has paid tribute to David Johansen, who died on Feb. 28 at age 75. The filmmaker helmed the Johansen doc Personality Crisis: One Night Only, which featured interviews with the New York Dolls frontman and punk rock pioneer. “With David Johansen, it started with the music, of course. …

David Johansen, frontman for the New York Dolls and the last surviving original member of that pioneering punk band, has died at the age of 75. The death of the singer who also moonlighted as his swing music alter ego Buster Poindexter and, as an actor, appeared in films like …

When Morrissey attempted to reunite the New York Dolls in 2004 for a performance at London’s Meltdown festival, he thought his odds of success were low. “I expected David [Johansen] to laugh at me and put the phone down,” he said that year. “But he was very agreeable and it …

For the first 20 years of David Johansen‘s career — despite his immense role in kickstarting the punk movement as the frontman of New York Dolls and all of his great solo work that followed — genuine mainstream success seemed like an impossible dream. That changed in 1987, when he …

David Johansen thanked fans for their support in a fundraising campaign that was launched following news of the New York Dolls singer’s battle with stage 4 cancer. Earlier this week, the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund and Johansen’s daughter Leah Hennessey launched theDavid Johansen Fundto raise money for the singer’s physical …

For the past five years, New York Dolls frontman David Johansen has been privately battling significant health setbacks. He has been diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer and a brain tumor, and is bedridden and incapacitated following a fall in November where he broke his back in two places. He now …

In Personality Crisis: One Night Only, Martin Scorsese’s new documentary about the life of New York Dolls frontman David Johansen, the singer makes it clear he doesn’t want to make it easy for the filmmaker: “I think it’s best to leave an incomplete picture of yourself,” he says. Although Johansen …