On “The Tonight Show” in 1988, as Poindexter and puffing a cigarette, he told host Johnny Carson that he hoped to star one day in a Broadway musical. That never happened.

David Johansen, the wiry, gravelly-voiced singer and last surviving member of the glam and protopunk band the New York Dolls who later performed as his campy, pompadoured alter ego, Buster ...

David Johansen, who segued from being the New York Dolls frontman to his Buster Poindexter alter ego and back again, has died at age 75. Watch Party Newsletter What to watch Win $100 📚 Celeb ...

Johansen was known for his work as the lead singer of the New York Dolls and his cabaret career as Buster Poindexter. David Johansen has died at the age of 75 after being diagnosed with stage 4 ...

David Johansen, punk star reinvented as ‘Buster Poindexter,’ dies at 75. Mr. Johansen led the New York Dolls as a vanguard of the punk scene and later took as his alter ego the tuxedo-clad ...