David Johansen, best known for being the lead singer in the seminal punk band, The New York Dolls, has been diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer. His daughter, Leah, announced the news via her Instagram ...

David Johansen, the frontman and last surviving member of proto-punk band New York Dolls, who went on to become a lounge singer under the name Buster Poindexter and act in films such as ...

New York Dolls singer David Johansen died on 28 February at his home in New York City. It had been revealed earlier this year that Johansen had stage 4 cancer and a brain tumour. The Dolls’ self ...

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 ...

David Johansen, the frontman and last surviving member of proto-punk band New York Dolls, who went on to become a lounge singer under the name Buster Poindexter and act in films such as ...

He was 75. Johansen died Friday at his home in New York City, Jeff Kilgour, a family spokesperson told The Associated Press. It was revealed in early 2025 that he had stage 4 cancer and a brain tumor.

David Johansen, the singer and last surviving member of the glam and protopunk band the New York Dolls who later performed as Buster Poindexter, has died. He was 75.

David Johansen, frontman for the punk band the New York Dolls, died at his home in New York City weeks after revealing his diagnosis of stage 4 cancer and a brain tumor. He was 75. Johansen’s ...