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New York Dolls’ David Johansen Revealed To Have Stage 4 Cancer; Daughter Organizes Crowdfunding Efforts
David Johansen has been revealed to have Stage 4 cancer and a brain tumor, with his family launching a fundraiser to help with medical expenses.
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. Hennessey added that Johansen suffered a fall the day after Thanksgiving, resulting in a back broken in two places, which landed him in the hospital for a week. Johansen and his pioneering of punk music was explored in the 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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