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New York Dolls: The Guys In The Dolls
Report by Michael Gross, NME, August 1973
THE BACK room of Max's Kansas City is generally bathed in a pink glow of lighting effects. Depending on how much liquor you've consumed, it can ...

Up and Down in Paris and London: The New York Dolls trash Europe
Book Excerpt by Nina Antonia, Omnibus Books, 1998
An extract from Too Much Too Soon: The New York Dolls by Nina Antonia, first published by Omnibus Press in 1998. (208pp, currently available in softback ...

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AUDIO: Malcolm McLaren Remembers The New York Dolls, parts 1 & 2 (1997)
Interview by Nina Antonia, Rock's Backpages Audio, 1997
From meeting up in London, Paris and NYC, via the Red Guards debacle, to catching the clap in New Orleans, Malcolm McLaren tells all about his ...

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They Simper At Times: New York Dolls, Wayne County: The Mercer Arts Center, New York City
Live Review by Miles, New York Dolls/Glam Rock, 1972
"It’s a fact that LA soft rock has been stomped on by glittering lurid day-glo platform shoes worn by a female impersonating, posturing hard-rock singer... faggot ...

New York Dolls/Mott The Hoople: Felt Forum, NYC
Live Review by Michael Gross, NME, July 1973
THE EVENING SIMPLY reeked of promise. Mott the Hoople, the Anglo glamour band of the moment, billed with New York's very own Dolls. ...

The New York Dolls: The New York Dolls (Mercury Import)
Review by Nick Kent, NME, August 1973
THE NEW YORK Dolls are trash, they play rock 'n' roll like sluts and they've just released a record that can proudly stand beside Iggy & ...

Mott The Hoople/New York Dolls: Felt Forum, NYC
Live Review by Michael Gross, Interview, September 1973
THE EVENING simply reeked of promise. Mott the Hoople, the Anglo glamour band of the moment, billed with New York's very own Dolls. ...

N.Y. Dolls Real Teen-Age Rock And Roll Band
Interview by Anne Moore, LA Free Press, September 1973
THE NEW YORK Dolls finally arrived in Los Angeles. Aside from an abundance of street talk, little is know of them except that they are another ...

The New York Dolls: An Insider's View
Profile and Interview by Ron Ross, Phonograph Record, October 1973
THE NEW YORK DOLLS are going to prove to be the ultimate rock critics' band, because, along with David Bowie, Lou Reed, Alice Cooper, and Todd ...

New York Dolls: The Legendary Mercer Concerts
Live Review by Alan Betrock, Phonograph Record, October 1973
THE HEADLINER was Satan the Eternal-Fire-Eater, and the place was the Mercer Arts Center. The room was the Kitchen —approximately 13' x 60' in size. You ...

New York Dolls Greatest Hits Volume 1
Profile and Interview by Ben Edmonds, Creem, October 1973
(They're not a fag band. -Ed.) ...

Oh, Those New York Dolls
Report and Interview by Anne Moore, Valley Advocate, October 1973
LOS ANGELES – The New York Dolls are waiting to play a gig. The dressing room is crowded with well-wishers, friends, and groupies, this generation's ladies ...

Various: New York New Wave
Report by Dave Marsh, Melody Maker, October 1973
GREAT WHITE ROCK has not often come from New York City and its surrounding boroughs, even though – or perhaps because the American music business is ...

Mott The Hoople/The New York Dolls/Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show: Live in Masillon, Ohio
Live Review by Lester Bangs, Phonograph Record, November 1973
I'VE SEEN WORSE towns than Masillon but not many. Gila Bend, Arizona is worse by dint of being the asshole of the world, and I thought ...

New York Dolls: Dead End Kids On The Champs-Elysées
Report and Interview by Nick Kent, NME, January 1974
"NOW JOHN LENNON... y'know, that song 'Gimme The Truth'?" The Dolls' David Johansen's cracked Brooklyn drawl appears from the side of his mouth while a cigarette ...

Standing in the Shadow of Rock: Shadow Morton, Pt. 1
Interview by Lenny Kaye, Melody Maker, March 1974
‘I don’t consider myself a good producer. I’m one of the best.’ Shadow Morton, producer of the Dolls, talks to Lenny Kaye. ...

New York Dolls: Too Much, Too Soon
Review by Ron Ross, Phonograph Record, April 1974
"WE DON'T PLAY too good, but we dance as bad as we want," Archie Bell once said by way of introduction to his fabulous Drells from ...

New York Dolls/Eliott Murphy: The Academy of Music, New York
Live Review by Alan Betrock, Phonograph Record, April 1974
VALENTINE GLITTER: DOLLS & ELLIOTT MURPHY, THE SWEETHEARTS OF NEW YAWK CITY ...

The New York Dolls: Broken Dolls
Report by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, September 1974
NEW YORK: The many critics of the New York Dolls will doubtless be pleased to hear that their fortunes recently have spiralled downwards. Unless a cure ...

The Stooges, Dolls et al: First Annual Hollywood Street Revival & Trash Dance, Hollywood Palladium
Live Review by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, December 1974
THAT'S WHAT THEY called it, and if one were to believe the advance publicity, which spread by word of mouth through the Hollywood environs like some ...

Letter from Panorama City: The New York Dolls
Profile by Metal Mike Saunders, Heavy Metal Digest, Winter 1974
I LIKE the Dolls. A lot. But there’s one thing I don’t understand: out of all the rave reviews on the Dolls, not one has mentioned ...

New York Dolls: Little Hippodrome, NYC
Live Review by Alan Betrock, Phonograph Record, April 1975
AFTER EXAGGERATED reports heralding their impending demise, the New York Dolls returned in early March to the Hippodrome in mid-Manhattan. They were supposedly to sport a ...

Funky (But Chic): David Johansen At Point Blank
Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, December 1978
RIGHT BETWEEN the eyes, pilgrim. Yeah, he does look like Lee Marvin. In walks the supposed progenitor of all this punko nonsense, ex-New York Doll David ...

The New York Dolls: The New York Dolls (Mercury)
Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, January 1980
This seminal slab of early-70s punkitude, produced by unlikely Todd Rundgren, defines the sound and style of New York’s contribution to new wave: a raunchy and ...

Beyond The Valley Of The New York Dolls
Report and Interview by Roy Trakin, Musician, October 1981
THE FIRST TIME I ever laid eyes on the New York Dolls was New Year's Eve, 1972, at the old Mercer Arts Center, and, quite frankly, ...

You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory: Johnny Thunders
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, NME, June 1982
"THERE'S A certain charisma about a guy that everybody thinks is about to drop dead. It's like when Daffy Duck blows up on stage and then ...

The New York Dolls: A retrospective
Retrospective by Miles, The History of Rock, 1983
ALTHOUGH THEY WERE one of the most influential bands of the early Seventies, the New York Dolls remain one of the least known. The took ...

Hairspray and Hard Drugs: The New York Dolls
Retrospective and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, January 1995
The Stones in drag, the proto-Sex Pistols, Aerosmith's role models, Morrissey's mad aunts. What were the legendary New York Dolls about, other than leather, leopardskin, bouffants, ...

The New York Dolls
Retrospective and Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, July 2000
WHILE IT was the Rolling Stones who pretty much defined and trail-blazed the cavalier pursuit of decadence and debauchery in rock 'n' roll, it was the ...

The New York Dolls: Fast and Louche
Live Review by Sean O'Hagan, The Observer, June 2004
The New York Dolls: Royal Festival Hall, ...

The First Punk: Johnny Thunders
Retrospective by Nina Antonia, Mojo, March 2005
FOR THE GENERATION of kids who became punks, the New York Dolls' appearance on The Old Grey Whistle Test in November 1973 was an ...

see also David Johansen

see also Johnny Thunders