David Johansen, punk star reinvented as ‘Buster Poindexter,’ dies at 75. Mr. Johansen led the New York Dolls as a vanguard of the punk scene and later took as his alter ego the tuxedo-clad ...

David Johansen has died at the age of 75 after being diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, PEOPLE can confirm. Johansen was known for his work as the lead singer of the New York Dolls and his cabaret ...

David Johansen, who segued from being the New York Dolls frontman to his Buster Poindexter alter ego and back again, has died at age 75. Watch Party Newsletter What to watch Win $100 📚 Celeb ...

Johansen died Friday at his home in New York City, Jeff Kilgour, a family spokesperson told The Associated Press. It was revealed in early 2025 that he had stage 4 cancer and a brain tumor.

David Johansen as Buster Poindexter performs onstage at The Daily Front Row's celebration of the 10th Anniversary of CBS Watch!Magazine in New York City on Feb. 9, 2016.Johansen died Friday at age 75.

Johansen died Friday at his home in New York City, Jeff Kilgour, a family spokesperson told The Associated Press. It was revealed in early 2025 that he had stage 4 cancer and a brain tumor.

David Johansen, frontman for the New York Dolls and the last surviving original member of that pioneering punk band, has died at the age of 75.. The death of the singer who also moonlighted as his ...

Bonnie Poindexter, who led numerous organizations, including the March of Dimes and Piedmont Opera, died Thursday at the age of 75. She died at her home after an illness. Jamie Allbritten, the ...

David Johansen, frontman of influential punk band the New York Dolls, has died.He was 75. The musician, who also performed under the pseudonym Buster Poindexter, died on Friday at his home in New ...

On “The Tonight Show” in 1988, as Poindexter and puffing a cigarette, he told host Johnny Carson that he hoped to star one day in a Broadway musical. That never happened.

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 ...