New york dolls. New york dolls is the debut album by the american hard rock band new york dollsit was released on july 27 1973 by mercury recordsin the years leading up to the album the dolls had developed a local fanbase by playing regularly in lower manhattan after forming in 1971. Though they found limited success during their initial run the new york dolls prefigured much of what was to come in the punk rock era particularly among other nyc bands such as the ramones read more. The new york dolls american band whose raw brand of glam rock revitalized the new york city underground music scene in the 1970s foreshadowing punk rock by half a decade.
The members were lead singer david johansen b. And the dolls were inarguably special decades after its release new york dolls still sounds thoroughly unique a gritty big city amalgam of stones style rb hard rock guitars lyrics that merge pulp storytelling with girl group attitude and a sloppy but brilliant attack that would inspire punk rock without the punks ever getting its joyous slop quite right. The new york dolls are a rock group formed in new york city in 1971 now famous as a proto punk band.
Im an old new york dolls fan and this is a decent offering by the two surviving members david johanson and sylvain sylvain with a competent bunch of musicians. Building on the rolling stones dirty rock roll mick jagger s androgyny girl group pop the stooges anarchic noise and the glam rock of david bowie and t. However most music producers and record companies were reluctant to work with them because of their vulgarity and onstage.
Although their original line up fell apart quickly the bands first two albumsnew york dolls 1973 and too much too soon 1974became among the most popular cult records in rock. January 9 1950 new york new york us lead guitarist johnny thunders byname of john genzale. Bill doll murcia johnny thunders jerry nolan arthur kane david johansen steve conte sami yaffa sylvain sylvain.
The new york dolls created punk rock before there was a term for it. Guitarists johnny thunders and rick rivets bassist arthur kane and drummer billy murcia were joined by vocalist david johansen. All of the members of the new york dolls played in new york bands before the band formed in late 1971.
Rex the new york dolls created a new form of hard rock that presaged both punk rock and heavy metal. Along with the velvet underground and the stooges they were one of the first bands of the early punk rock scenes.