David Johansen, the groundbreaking punk musician and tastemaker who shook up fashion's then-rigid gender norms, died on Friday after a Valentine's Da
David Johansen, the groundbreaking punk musician and tastemaker who shook up fashion’s then-rigid gender norms, died on Friday after a Valentine’s Day announcement of stage 4 cancer, a brain tumor, and a broken back. He was 75.
The vocalist for the influential 1970s-era punk band the New York Dolls hit the mainstream in the 1980s and ‘90s as satire-adjacent lounge act Buster Poindexter; his song “Hot, Hot, Hot” has served as the soundtrack to countless wedding receptions, commercials, and TV shows.
According to a message posted by daughter Leah Hennessey to the Sweet Relief musician’s fund, he died on February 28 “peacefully at home, holding the hands of his wife Mara Hennessey and daughter Leah, in the sunlight surrounded by music and flowers.”
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