This sucks. David Johansen, the 75-year-old frontman of the New York Dolls, sadly handed away yesterday (February 28) at residence in Staten Island, New York.
On March 1, a consultant from the Johansen camp launched this assertion:
“David Johansen died at residence in New York Metropolis on Friday afternoon holding arms together with his spouse Mara Hennessey and daughter Leah, surrounded by music, flowers, and love. He was 75 years previous and died of pure causes after almost a decade of sickness.”
It was simply final month when Johansen shared the information of him residing with stage 4 most cancers and a mind tumor, although he was recognized again in 2020. Selecting to remain non-public on the matter (and who might blame him?), Johansen silently handled the sickness through the years. Again in November of final yr, a fall precipitated him to get surgical procedure after breaking his again in two locations. The surgical procedure was profitable however nonetheless left him debilitated.
There was a fundraising effort made via the Candy Reduction Musicians Fund to assist with the medical payments, the place he mentioned the next about his situation on the time:
“We’ve been residing with my sickness for a very long time, nonetheless having enjoyable, seeing family and friends, carrying on, however this tumble the day after Thanksgiving actually introduced us to a complete new stage of debilitation. That is the worst ache I’ve ever skilled in my total life. I’ve by no means been one to ask for assist, however that is an emergency. Thanks.”
Johansen’s daughter mentioned this of her father as his situation was worsening:
“He’s very, very sick, however he’s studying all of the messages, and he’s getting in contact with folks he hasn’t talked to in a few years. The connection might be the very best factor for him proper now — as it’s for all of us.”He’s completely with us — mentally, emotionally, [but] he’s bodily incapacitated.”
Johansen was the frontman of actually among the finest punk bands of all time. The legend had his toes dipped in fairly a number of completely different swimming pools, like his numerous different music initiatives like David Johansen Band, The Harry Smiths, and Buster Poindexter, to his performing profession. Many know him from the Christmas film Scrooged and Let It Trip, working alongside Invoice Murray and Richard Dreyfuss respectively. He additionally had a weekly SiriusXM radio present The Mansion of Enjoyable. Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi not too long ago made the documentary Character Disaster: One Evening Solely, the place they celebrated Johansen’s knack for narratives and songwriting
