06/26/2025
RIP Buster Poindexter 😢
David Johansen, New York Dolls Frontman and Punk Pioneer, Dead at 75
Singer and actor, who scored a hit with "Hot Hot Hot" as his alter ego Buster Poindexter, dies after revealing Stage Four cancer battle last month
The death of the singer who also moonlighted as “Buster Poindexter” and, as an actor, appeared in films like Scrooged and Let It Ride, was confirmed Saturday by a spokesperson for Johansen, who said in a statement to Rolling Stone, “David Johansen died at home in NYC on Friday afternoon holding hands with his wife Mara Hennessey and daughter Leah, surrounded my music, flowers, and love. He was 75 years old and died of natural causes after nearly a decade of illness.”
