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• The New York Dolls are a influential punk, glam rock band. The band formed in 1971 and played together for six years before breaking up due to internal conflict.

  In 2006, the surviving members of the band released One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This, an album of all-new material with a new lineup.Official Site: Band Info In 2008, it was announced the band had teamed up with producer Todd Rundgren, producer of their 1973 debut, to record their fourth studio album. Cause I Sez So will be released on May 5, 2009 in the U.S..Billboard: New York Dolls Reunite With Todd Rundgren For New Album (March 18, 2009)

• Fast Facts

  1. Genre: Punk/Glam rock
  2. Origin: New York City, New York
  3. Years Active: 1971-1977, 2004-present
  4. Label: Roadrunner Records
  5. Studio albums: 4
  6. Johnny Thunders was a founding member of the band
  7. Todd Rundgren produced the band's self-titled debut album
  8. Thunders and Jerry Nolan left the band in 1975
  9. Singer David Johansen performed as a fictional lounge singer, Buster Poindexter, after the band's break-up
  10. Thunders died in 1991 of an apparent drug overdose
  11. Nolan died in 1992 of a stroke

• Sound

  Emerging from the artsy NYC underground in the wake of the Velvet Underground, the New York Dolls played a kind of thrashy, R&B-based; hard-rock that was initially dismissed as an imitation of The Rolling Stones. Their music, however, incorporated many other influences, including the Girl Group sounds of the early 1960s, especially The Shangri-Las and The Ronettes.Official Site: Band Info

• Look

  It wasn't only the band's music that contained a strong female influence, they also wore women's clothing. They did not impersonate women but rather incorporated glamorous attire as feather boas and pumps with men's clothing. The look has been cited as the source of glam rock's obsession with androgyny, which reached mass appeal in the 1980s.Official Site: Band Info

• Look

  • 1973: New York Dolls
  • 1974: Too Much Too Soon
  • 2006: One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This
  • 2009: Cause I Sez So

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