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October 28, 2005
New York Doll
(out of four)
If you were going to make a rockumentary about the short-lived but enormously influential '70s glam band, The New York Dolls, you'd probably choose to follow lead singer David Johansen, who revived his career after the Dolls dissolved by reinventing himself as Buster Poindexter. Or you might catch up with guitarist Sylvain Sylvain, who kept right on rockin', despite the many setbacks that effectively obliterated the Dolls (drummer Billy Murcia drowning in his bath, guitarist Johnny Thunders deserting the Dolls to form The Heartbreakers, and so on). No self-respecting Dolls fan would lead with Arthur "Killer" Kane, the Frankenstein-like bass player (his stone-still stage presence inspired the band's biographer to dub him "the only living statue in rock and roll") who was fired by his own band, defected from New York to La La Land, and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
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