NEW YORK — 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 Poindexter, died at age 75.

David Johansen, the frontman and last surviving member of the glam and punk pioneering band, the New York Dolls, has died at age 75. David Johansen was also known as his pompadoured alter ego, Buster Poindexter,

David Johansen, who was the last surviving member of the seminal punk rock band the New York Dolls, has died at the age of 75. Johansen — who later performed as his campy alter ego, Buster Poindexter — died Friday at his home in New York City, his stepdaughter, Leah Hennessey, confirmed.

I bring this up because the Dolls frontman David Johansen, one of rock music’s great minor figures, died Friday at the age of 75, and music fans have been wondering about the Dolls' performance in 1974 at the Minnesota State Fair.

The group worked relentlessly after reforming in 2004, and spent their last year opening up for Mötley Crüe and Poison in America, and Alice Cooper in the U.K.

David Johansen, the wiry, gravelly-voiced singer and last surviving member of 1970s glam and protopunk band the New York Dolls who later performed as his campy, pompadoured alter ego, Buster Poindexter,

"In the history books, it would always say, 'They were trashy. They were flashy. They were drug addicts. They were drag queens,'" Johansen said. "I realized that, you know, it really is art."

David Johansen, frontman for the punk band the New York Dolls, died at his home in New York City weeks after revealing his diagnosis of stage 4 cancer and a brain tumor. He was 75. Johansen's death, which occurred Friday,

David Johansen, the wiry, gravelly-voiced singer and last surviving member of 1970s glam and protopunk band the New York Dolls who later performed as his campy, pompadoured alter ego, Buster ...

David Johansen, the gravelly voiced singer of the protopunk band the New York Dolls who later performed as his campy, pompadoured alter ego Buster Poindexter, has died.