David Johansen, the New York Dolls frontman and “Scrooged” star who also performed as lounge singer Buster Poindexter, ...

The singer from the iconic punk band the New York Dolls has been privately battling illness for a decade — now his family is ...

After the New York Dolls broke up, Johansen pursued a solo career, reinventing himself in the 1980s as Buster Poindexter ... the Ghost of Christmas Past in “Scrooged” the movie.

David Johansen, a singer known for his Buster Poindexter alter ego and for founding the punk band New York Dolls, announced ...

The family of New York Dolls singer David Johansen has revealed the glam punk rock pioneer has stage 4 cancer and a brain tumor among other major health issues. Johansen’s daughter, Leah ...

But David Johansen – the vocalist for the New York Dolls who later took on the persona of Buster Poindexter – is suffering from Stage 4 cancer and in need of support, according to a plea for help from ...

His family is holding a fundraiser to help pay for a nurse, physical therapy, and “day-to-day vital living expenses.” ...

David Johansen’s family is opening up about his secret health battle. The singer of the punk band New York Dolls has Stage 4 cancer, which has progressed to a brain tumor, and a broken back, his ...

According to an Instagram story posted by his daughter, Leah Hennessey, the always-flamboyant frontman was diagnosed with ...

In the early Eighties, he began playing under-the-radar club shows where he billed himself as Buster Poindexter ... Past in the Bill Murray movie Scrooged. In 2004, he reunited with the surviving ...

The 1970s proto-punk band the New York Dolls, last surviving founding member, frontman David Johansen, has opened up about his struggle with stage 4 cancer, as well as a recent major injury that has l ...