‘New York Dolls’ entrance man David Johansen dies after battling most cancers
David Johansen, the lead singer of New York Dolls, handed away at 75 after a protracted battle with most cancers.
The legendary star’s dying was confirmed by her daughter, Leah Hennessey, who shared that he died at house in New York on Friday, February twenty eighth, as per New York Occasions.
Hennessey had beforehand shared that her father had been identified with stage 4 most cancers and had a mind tumour.
Revealing her dad’s sickness, in February she mentioned, “David has been in intensive treatment for stage 4 cancer for most of the past decade. There have been complications ever since. 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.”
In an interview with People Magazine, she noted, “He’s very, very sick, but he’s reading all the messages, and he’s getting in touch with people he hasn’t talked to in many years. The connection is probably the best thing for him right now — as it is for all of us.”
Nonetheless, she added, “He is completely with us — mentally, emotionally, [but] he is bodily incapacitated.”
Johansen first discovered his longstanding profession in music because the lead singer of the New York Dolls, one of many earliest punk bands. He later went off to begin a solo profession within the Seventies, and commenced performing cabaret beneath the title, Buster Poindexter, within the ‘80s.