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bitter69uk · 4 months ago

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“The New York Dolls, unlike Aerosmith, did have the critics on their side. It was the public that never got behind them – perhaps because of their early glam rock image with its unsubtle hints of transvestism. Forgetting that the Stones, too, had been blatantly derivative during their days as a struggling blues band, [Mick] Jagger scornfully observed, “The Dolls are awright if you want a good laugh, but they’re so very camp and silly. I mean, one of them is quite pretty [the one who looked like him, naturally] but he can’t sing” … While fronting the Dolls, David Johansen (the pretty one) patterned himself after the ’69 model Jagger via top hats, floor-length feather boas and a tantalizing bisexual swagger. Johansen threw away his top hats and boas when the band broke up in 1975 … Still, he and the Dolls are credited with inspiring much of the late seventies onslaught of punk and New Wave – setting an example that would influence no less a personage than Jagger himself, who responded to the trend by laying on his own mascara and bad boy burlesque extra thick.”

/ From the book Rock’n’Roll Confidential (1984) by Penny Stallings /

Still reflecting on the recent death of the last surviving member of the lipstick terrorists The New York Dolls, the flamingly flamboyant, savagely pouting frontman (who later reinvented himself as lounge lizard crooner Buster Poindexter), occasional actor and undisputed architect of punk - David Johansen (9 January 1950 – 28 February 2025). Further reading: in his mammoth 2024 tome The Secret Public: How LGBTQ Resistance Shaped Popular Culture (1955–1979), author Jon Savage devotes a chapter to the Dolls – and it’s compulsory reading. Now sing along with me: “When I say I'm in love, you best believe I'm in love, L-U-V …” Pic: Johansen performing with The New York Dolls at Biba's Rainbow Room in London by Ian Dickson, 1973.

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williamfthackerphotography · 1 year ago

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#androgynous #androgony #androgyny model #pink narcissus #ribbons

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little-circle-circle · 2 years ago

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Ranboo stream 10/26/2023

Am gonna just write stuff here as a way of live-blogging

I like the starting soon for this one OH JESUS THEYRE DEAD WOOO WOW echo hello jesus the real scare is the goddamn echo (I bet it’s not intentional) AAAA THEY AGREE WITH ME IT IS SCARY AJDHEH

Goddam I love their hair I wanna look like that. I wanna be able to cover my eyes with my hair rajwkdjehdbraaaaaa

They’re having a great time and I’m here for it 💖

Okay now they’re just. Prancing around. Good for them what the fuck though OH DAMN THAT WALK BACK OVER??? HELLO WKFEJSHD that’s gonna be a goddam meme I’m calling it jesus