David Johansen as Buster Poindexter performs onstage at The Each day Entrance Row’s celebration of the tenth Anniversary of CBS Watch! Journal in New York Metropolis on Feb. 9, 2016. Johansen died Friday at age 75.
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David Johansen, the chameleonic and charismatic vocalist who fronted the New York Dolls and located solo success beneath the moniker Buster Poindexter, died on Friday, his publicist confirmed to NPR. He was 75.
Final month, his household revealed that he had been in “intensive remedy” for stage 4 most cancers. The punk pioneer “died of pure causes after practically a decade of sickness,” in line with the publicist’s assertion.
Johansen died at his New York Metropolis dwelling “holding fingers together with his spouse Mara Hennessey and daughter Leah, surrounded by music, flowers, and love,” it learn.
A full obit will observe.
The New York Dolls carry out on the Waldorf-Astoria Lodge in New York on Oct. 31, 1973. At proper is lead singer David Johansen, with guitarist Sylvain Sylvain.
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