The New York Dolls: An Insider's View
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 Rundgren, and in a less self-conscious way, Stories, Raspberries, Blue Ash, Badfinger, Slade, and Iggy, the Dolls are the best critics of rock and roll pop music has ever produced.
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