He composed nearly 600 scores for the show and conducted the 35-piece orchestra that played them in the studio.

Derringer’s decades in the music industry spanned teen stardom, session work for bands like Steely Dan, supplying the guitar solo on Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart” and producing Cyndi ...

Iconic stars like the Ramones, the Outlaws, Joe Jackson, Grandmaster Flash, Alisha, Taylor Dayne, LaToya Jackson and Island legend David Johansen graced ... A big draw at the Narrows for myself ...

When a federal court in Alabama last week ruled that the state’s 2023 congressional map violated the Voting Rights Act because it diluted the voices of Black voters, groups that were challenging the ...

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Rock’n’roll puritan and punk revolutionary. A Manhattan institution in a city cleaning itself up around him David Johansen lived many lives in his hometown, all while producing music that shocked, ...

My wife, Carola Dibbell, reviewed it for The Village Voice, providing a firsthand historical account of how Johansen presented ... and quite possibly more than David Bowie’s calculated gender ...

David Johansen RIP. Loved the New York Dolls as a teenager-Chatterbox was the list of cover songs we loved before deciding on ...

David Johansen, legendary punk rock pioneer and New York Dolls lead singer, has passed away at 75. Johansen revealed his stage 4 cancer diagnosis weeks before his death. He died peacefully at home ...

Martin Scorsese has paid tribute to David Johansen, who died on Feb. 28 at age 75. The filmmaker helmed the Johansen doc Personality Crisis: One Night Only, which featured interviews with the New ...

New York Dolls frontman David Johansen died Saturday at the age of 75 following a battle with cancer. The eclectic singer’s colorful and distinctive career has forever left an indelible mark on ...

David Johansen died at his home in New York City on Friday. It was revealed in early 2025 that David Johansen had stage 4 cancer and a brain tumour. His band, The New York Dolls, were forerunners ...