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New York Dolls’ David Johansen Dies At 75 After Revealing Stage 4 Cancer Diagnosis
David Johansen, the frontman of punk band the New York Dolls, has died. He was 75.
Hennessey announced her father’s diagnosis last month after Johansen’s healthcare left the family with an “increasingly severe financial burden” after he had been in “intensive treatment” for a majority of the past decade. He’s never made his diagnosis public, as he and my mother Mara are generally very private people, but we feel compelled to share this now, due to the increasingly severe financial burden our family is facing,” she wrote. Johansen and his pioneering of punk music was explored in the Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi-helmed Personality Crisis: One Night Only, following the lead singer and songwriter through the lens of the influential New York Dolls band, widely acknowledged as one of the first in the genre.
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