DER US-AMERIKANISCHE SÄNGER, SONGWRITER UND SCHAUSPIELER DAVID JOHANSEN (NEW YORK DOLLS) IST GESTORBEN

Der am 9. Januar 1950 in Staten Island (New York City) geborene US-amerikanische Sänger, Songwriter und Schauspieler David Johansen (Bild) ist am 28. Februar 2025 ebendort gestorben. Bekannt wurde er vor allem als Mitglied der Protopunk-Band New York Dolls sowie unter seinem Pseudonym Buster Poindexter. Musikalisch bewegte er sich in verschiedenen Stilen, darunter Rock, Protopunk, Blues, Jazz und Pop.

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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 lizard Buster Poindexter.

Mr. Johansen was prolific in multiple genres, from blues to calypso, and achieved his greatest commercial success in the late 1980s and early ’90s with his pompadoured lounge-lizard alter ego, Buster Poindexter. But his 1970s heyday with the New York Dolls, a band of lipstick-smeared men in love with trashy riffs and tough women, had the most cultural impact, inspiring numerous punk, heavy metal and alternative musicians.

Gavin Edwards

https://archive.ph/20250301173706/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/arts/music/david-johansen-dead.html#selection-895.0-895.425

David Johansen, New York Dolls Frontman and Punk Pioneer, Dead at 75

Singer and actor, who scored a hit with «Hot Hot Hot» as his alter ego Buster Poindexter, dies after revealing Stage Four cancer battle last month.

The New York City-born Johansen was best known for his work in the pioneering punk group the New York Dolls, with whom — during the band’s initial run in the first half of the Seventies — he recorded a pair of influential glam punk albums, 1973’s New York Dolls and 1974’s Too Much Too Soon, with Johansen co-writing the bulk of the albums with guitarist Johnny Thunders.

Daniel Kreps, Andy Greene

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/david-johansen-new-york-dolls-singer-buster-poindexter-dead-obituary-1235284539

David Johansen, frontman of the pioneering punk group New York Dolls and solo “Hot Hot Hot” hitmaker as his alter ego Buster Poindexter, has died

It’s hard to imagine New York City in the ‘70s becoming ground zero for punk and new wave music without the existence of the New York Dolls. Favoring simple, sloppy rock n’ roll over the increasingly complex and conceptual rock music of the early ‘70s, New York Dolls made up for what they lacked in technical mastery and professionalism with attitude, gender-bending fashion (women’s clothes and high heels) and gobs of lipstick.

Anna Chan, Joe Lynch

https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/david-johansen-dead-new-york-dolls-obituary-1235912728

Even as his health declined, Johansen had had a high profile in the last years of his life, thanks to a Showtime documentary co-directed by Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi

Johansen made public appearances to promote the doc alongside Scorsese when it came out in 2023. The film was based around the filming of what turned out to be Johansen’s final full gigs, at New York’s Cafe Carlyle right before the pandemic lockdown.

Pat Saperstein, Chris Willman

https://variety.com/2025/music/news/david-johansen-dead-new-york-dolls-1236324334

The singer, who also went on to record as Buster Poindexter, was fundamental in shaping the original aesthetic of punk rock

As the singer in the New York Dolls, Johansen was fundamental in the shaping of the aesthetic that would go on to define punk rock, merging elements of glam and hard rock with a distinctively anti-establishment attitude and resonating with an emerging generation of music fans.

Max Pilley

https://www.nme.com/news/music/david-johansen-frontman-of-the-new-york-dolls-dies-aged-75-3842583

Mort de David Johansen, dernière poupée du son des New York Dolls

Meneur du groupe pilier du glam rock et pionnier du punk, aussi influent que dégénéré, le musicien est mort vendredi 28 février à 75 ans. Il avait révélé le mois dernier être atteint d’un cancer de phase 4.

Lelo Jimmy Batista

https://www.liberation.fr/culture/musique/mort-de-david-johansen-derniere-poupee-du-son-des-new-york-dolls-20250301_WNP4MCC4JJCTJEAYEMJFLK4POA

New-York-Dolls-Sänger David Johansen ist tot

Ein bisschen Greta Garbo, ein bissen Mick Jagger: Der große Sänger David Johansen brachte mit seinen New York Dolls eine ruppige Form der Queerness in den Punk. Jetzt ist er im Alter von 75 Jahren gestorben.

Er war das letzte überlebende Mitglied der New York Dolls, die in der kurzen Zeit ihres Bestehens notorisch erfolglos waren, heute aber gleich in zweierlei Hinsicht als prägend gelten: als Treiber des Punk. Als Zerstörer von Gechlechternormen im Rock.

Christian Buss

https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/tv/david-johansen-new-york-dolls-saenger-im-alter-von-57-jahren-gestorben-a-2aa5ea0d-3520-40ee-a548-b67ce97e9f76

Primaballerina des Punk

Eyeliner, Lippenstift, Glam-Punk: Was David Johansen machte, kam meist zehn Jahre später in Mode. Nun ist der Sänger der „New York Dolls“ mit 75 Jahren gestorben.

Joachim Hentschel

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/david-johansen-tot-new-york-dolls-nachruf-rock-n-roll-li.3211928?reduced=true

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