David Johansen, the frontman and last surviving member of proto-punk band New York Dolls, who went on to act in films such as "Scrooged," has died.

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 death, ...

drawing rave reviews but only modest sales for works like "David Johansen" in 1978 and "In Style" in 1979. His only song to make the charts was a live medley of the Animals hits "We Gotta Get Out ...

He was a survivor. Until he wasn't. I won't say he reinvented himself as much as Bowie or Madonna, then again Johansen was ...

David Johansen, a punk legend and the last surviving member of the pioneering band the New York Dolls, has died. Johansen, who was 75, had been living with cancer for nearly a decade and a brain tumor ...

David Johansen, who died February 28 at 75, helped record the soundtrack to glam-punk rock as lead singer of the groundbreaking New York Dolls. Songs like “Personality Crisis” and “Trash ...

By Rob Tannenbaum It’s a paradox that Staten Island, New York City’s most conservative borough, produced David Johansen, one of its most outrageous frontmen. Johansen led the New York Dolls ...

The New York Dolls didn’t crack the Top 100, but they changed the world, and critic Robert Christgau was on the scene to see it happen ...

My wife, Carola Dibbell, reviewed it for The Village Voice, providing a firsthand historical account of how Johansen presented ... and quite possibly more than David Bowie’s calculated gender ...