David Johansen, the frontman of punk band the New York Dolls, has died. He was 75.
The musician, who additionally carried out beneath the pseudonym Buster Poindexter, died on Friday at his house in New York Metropolis, his daughter Leah Hennessey confirmed to a number of shops, weeks after revealing his stage 4 cancer diagnosis.
Hennessey announced her father’s diagnosis final month after Johansen’s healthcare left the household with an “more and more extreme monetary burden” after he had been in “intensive remedy” for a majority of the previous decade.
“5 years in the past at the start of the pandemic we found that David’s most cancers had progressed and he had a mind tumor. There have been problems ever since. He’s by no means made his prognosis public, as he and my mom Mara are typically very non-public folks, however we really feel compelled to share this now, as a result of more and more extreme monetary burden our household is going through,” she wrote.
Johansen and his pioneering of punk music was explored within the Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi-helmed Personality Crisis: One Night Only, following the lead singer and songwriter by means of the lens of the influential New York Dolls band, extensively acknowledged as one of many first within the style.
David Johansen circa 1980
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“I solely cringed two or 3 times throughout this movie,” he said of the doc to Deadline at a screening occasion on the time.
Afterward, he started an eponymous group and reinvented himself within the ’80s as Buster Poindexter. He later shaped The Harry Smiths, leaning into his ardour for blues and folks music to tour the world. He’s additionally recognized for a handful of movies, like Christmas basic Scrooged with Invoice Murray and the Richard Dreyfuss-starring race observe comedy Let it Experience.
