David Johansenknown fundamentally for being a vocalist of New York Dollshe has died from cancer he had been suffering for several years.
Just two weeks ago, we reported from this same website that Leah Hennessey, daughter of Johansen himself, had launched a Sweetrellief campaign to be able to face the high medical expenses of the treatment of cancer in phase four that his father suffered. A few days later his death has been released by not being able to overcome the disease. He was seventy -five years old.
We know the conditions in which American musicians must face the disease when they suffer. Many have had to go to fans and beneficial acts to pay cancer treatment. And Johansen’s case has not been an exception.
David Johansen was a vocalist of the Glam and Proto-Punk band of the seventies New York Dollsone of the most influential arising from the city in those days and has remained respected by musicians from around the world, in addition to a great influence for later generations, despite not being a band of great success at the sales and public level. Subsequently, Johansen also exercised for many years as an actor/comic under the pseudonym of Buster Poindexterappearing even in some Hollywood films.
New York Dolls published in their first stage the two great classics of their discography, “New York Dolls” of 1973 and “Too a lot of soon” of 1974, before separating in 1977. Subsequently Johansen and Sylvain Sylvain would gather and record three more albums under the name of New York Dolls. Sylvain Sylvain would died in 2021 at sixty -nine years of age.
Johansen had suffered cancer for ten years that, since last November, he had reached his fourth stage – when there is metastasis in various parts of the body. Less than a month ago, he himself had declared that: “I have been living with my illness for a long time, but I have continued to have fun, seeing my friends and family, carrying it, but since the day after Thanksgiving the level of weakness increased significantly. It is the worst pain that I have experienced in my whole life. I have never asked people for help, but this is an emergency.
