Living.Scotsman.com – Fiona Shepherd
Punk legends the New York Dolls are back – thanks to Morrissey, says Fiona Shepherd
Through no design of their own, the new New York Dolls look set to last longer than their original trash punk incarnation. For a short while in the 1970s, they stomped their stack-heeled mark all over music, inspiring everyone from the Sex Pistols to the young president of their UK fan club – Morrissey.
Thirty years after the band imploded in a hairspray, lipstick and drug-addled mess, their resurrection began with that former fan club president inviting the surviving three members to play a one-off show at the 2004 Meltdown Festival in London.
“I didn’t come into this thing – nor did any of us – thinking that we were going to continue,” says lead Doll David Johansen, who still looks every inch the louche rock’n’roller, but now likes to recruit band members over a cup of tea and listen to Mahler’s Fifth Symphony while he does interviews.