David Johansen, a genre-shifting musical nomad who roared to fame in thrift-store drag as leader of the proto-punk New York Dolls and later donned a tuxedo and took the name Buster Poindexter with ...

In this Feb. 19. 2016, file photo, singer Buster Poindexter, a/k/a David Johansen, performs at City Winery in New York. Bobby Bank/Getty Images, FILE After several years as a solo artist ...

That led to his 1984 debut of musical persona Buster Poindexter, a lounge singer with a backing band that included horns. The first album yielded the hit single "Hot Hot Hot," a cover of a ...

David Johansen, a singer known for his Buster Poindexter alter ego and for founding the influential punk band New York Dolls, announced Monday he has stage 4 cancer. The “Hot Hot Hot” singer ...

In the late ’80s, he reinvented himself and performed under the pseudonym Buster Poindexter, he earned his first hit with the single “Hot, Hot, Hot.” In 1988, he famously starred as the ...

I was so lucky to have known him.” Buster Poindexter on His Return to Café Carlyle“A lot of people think Buster is a character, but it’s not really. It’s kind of a conceit.” ...