“New York Dolls” singer David Johansen is dead: an obituary on the Glam-Punker-Culture

Eyeliner, lipstick, glam-punk: What David Johansen did usually came into fashion ten years later. Now the singer of the “New York Dolls” died at the age of 75.

The purple spandex pants that David Johansen wore at the “Musikladen” by Radio Bremen was not only perfect on the butt. At the end of 1973 that was, in the same episode of the show the teenage favorites occurred The Osmonds and the DKP-related songwriter Dietrich Kittner. And just Johansen’s New York DollsA wild delegation from the East Village, which played primeval rock-‘n ‘roll with modern technology and chuzp.