And as part of the summer series on albums celebrating their 50th anniversary, rock critic Ken Tucker is reviewing the New York Dolls' 1974 record "In Too Much Too Soon." It was the second album ...

The tension between teenybopper tropes and grimy urban reality is a recurring theme on the album—as if the lyrics in Grease had been re-written by Bukowski. Hardly any song on New York Dolls ...

New York Dolls singer David Johansen died on ... the rest of them like drag queens and hookers. The Dolls’ first album would inspire so many bands in the years that followed, from the Ramones ...

A decade later he joined the New York Dolls and their self-titled debut album was released in 1973. The controversial record cover featured the five male band members clad in wigs, make-up and ...

They scarcely lasted four years before they imploded. For context, the New York Dolls released their debut album the same year that the American Psychiatric Association declassified homosexuality ...

I loved the place, and didn’t really have to alter my New York state of mind ... from Blondie plays on the new album. Was there a great rivalry between the Dolls and Blondie way back when?

He joined the nascent New York Dolls in 1971, and their first performance came at a Christmas Eve concert at a homeless shelter. Their first album, titled “New York Dolls” and produced by Todd ...

David Johansen, the chameleonic and charismatic vocalist who fronted the New York Dolls and found solo success under the moniker Buster Poindexter, died on Friday, his publicist confirmed to NPR.