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.

David Johansen, the gravelly-voiced singer, was last surviving member of the glam and protopunk band the New York Dolls.

David Johansen has died. Although best known and celebrated for his work as lead singer of formative American punk band New York Dolls, Johansen was an unabashed artistic chameleon, who also achieved mainstream chart success under his Buster Poindexter pseudonym,

In the 1970s, he and the transgressive Dolls were proto-punk pioneers. He later refashioned himself as the pompadoured lounge lizard Buster Poindexter.

The 1970s band the New York Dolls was hugely influential, despite making only two studio albums. Today we remember Johansen, aka Buster Poindexter, who died Feb. 28. Originally broadcast in 2004.

In a statement shared with Vulture, Scorsese remembers the grit and “energy” of New York that came alongside Johansen’s work. Below is Scorsese’s full tribute to the late musician. “With David Johansen,

David Johansen, the lead singer and last surviving original member of the band New York Dolls, has died at 75.

Johansen also had a successful solo career as lounge singer Buster Poindexter David Johansen, the lead singer of New York Dolls, has died. He was 75. Johansen's daughter, Leah Hennessey, confirmed that he died at home in New York on Friday,

But his eternal-kid energy shone through on songs like this starry-eyed glam anthem. “Jumpin’ round the stage like teenage girls/Castin’ our swine before the pearls,” Johansen sang gleefully, as if the Dolls’ Seventies party never ended.

David Johansen, a genre-shifting musical nomad who roared to fame in thrift-store drag as leader of the proto-punk New York Dolls and later donned a tuxedo and took the name Buster Poindexter with ...

David Johansen, a punk legend and the last ... That led to his 1984 debut of musical persona Buster Poindexter, a lounge singer with a backing band that included horns. The first album yielded ...

Johansen's death ends a unique career as a quintessential New York City artist, with turns that also included a recent stint as a deejay and actor.