Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Dolls

Pussycat Dolls star Ashley Roberts says band’s gruelling schedule left her ‘really, really sick’

‘There was also this feeling that we could be replaced,’ said the performer

The Independent UK

Nicole Scherzinger shares thoughts on Pussycat Dolls reunion after cancelled tour

The girl group was founded in 2003 and topped the charts with songs like Buttons, Don’t Cha, and Jai Ho

Evening Standard

Nicole Scherzinger shares verdict on Pussycat Dolls reunion after failed 2022 tour

Scherzinger’s comments come on the heels of her first Tony nomination for ‘Sunset Blvd’

The Independent UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

"He knew something that I didn't know, that nobody knew: that he wouldn't live too long" How Johnny Thunders reached for the stars – then threw it all away

Fiends, lovers and the people who knew him best reveal the man behind Johnny Thunders, New York Doll-turned-junkie poster boy

Louder

“We opened for the New York Dolls in 1974. The crowd was excited to see them. Not so much us”: An epic interview with Rush‘s Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee about the rollercoaster career of ‘rock’s biggest cult band’

In 2015, Rush’s Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee looked back over the prog icons’ rollercoaster career

Louder

"David was loving, cantankerous, giving, supportive, sullen, wise, difficult, well-read, and really funny”: Ex-New York Dolls bassist pays tribute to the late David Johansen

“We had love for each other,” Sami Yaffa says

MusicRadar

"I'd like to think that everything people think about me is a misconception": An interview with the New York Dolls' David Johansen

Our 2011 interview with the late David Johansen finds him talking about Arthur Kane, Johnny Thunders and dancing backwards in high heels

Louder

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

David Johansen obituary

Singer, songwriter, actor and punk pioneer best known as the frontman of New York Dolls

The Guardian - UK

Wild, waspish and whip-smart, there are few rock stars as great as David Johansen

He looked the part – and sounded even better. And the frontman of New York Dolls, who has died aged 75, was deeper than many gave him credit for

The Guardian - UK

New York Dolls frontman David Johansen dies aged 75

As part of the US band, Johansen played a part in creating punk rock, and influenced bands including The Smiths, the Sex Pistols and The Damned.

Evening Standard

“They were trashy. They seemed genuine”: New York Dolls singer David Johansen dead at 75

The Dolls’ debut album inspired many bands - from the Sex Pistols to Guns N’ Roses

MusicRadar

David Johansen, New York Dolls singer, dead at 75

The death of New York Dolls singer David Johansen has been confirmed by a spokesperson

Louder

David Johansen, singer from the seminal punk band the New York Dolls, dies at 75

David Johansen, the wiry, gravelly-voiced singer and last surviving member of the glam and protopunk band the New York Dolls, has died

The Independent UK

“Arnold Schwarzenegger wanted to talk to me. They thought I would be right for the part of The Terminator”: WASP frontman Blackie Lawless’ wild tales of Lemmy, Gene Simmons and The Village People

Metal Hammer

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Louder

"They seemed to come out of some New York film where it was all flick-knives on the street." The Damned's Dave Vanian on the gig that changed his life

In November 1973, a US rock band visited London for the second time and helped spark a punk rock revolution

The Guardian - UK

‘They were inventing a new definition of sexy’: stars and scenesters on the New York Dolls’ riotous rock

Fifty years on from their dissolution, admirers from Joan Jett to Dave Vanian explain the appeal of a band who ripped up rock’n’roll in high heels – and pointed towards punk

BANG Premier

Nicole Scherzinger and Pussycat Dolls founder settle legal battle

Nicole Scherzinger and the Pussycat Dolls' founder Robin Antin have ended their lengthy legal battle over the group's cancelled reunion.

The Independent UK

Nicole Scherzinger reveals why Pussycat Dolls was ‘such a difficult time’

‘When I Grow Up’ singer called band’s strenuous schedule a ‘recipe for disaster’

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Guitar World

“Malcolm was managing the Dolls for a while. I guess they owed him money and gave it to him as payment”: This Sex Pistols and New York Dolls-owned Gibson just sold for $390,000 at auction

The Dolls' ex-manager allegedly took the guitar as payment for his management services, later giving it to The Sex Pistols' Steve Jones

Louder

"I don't write songs like a twenty-one-year-old any more, and I don't want to. I have much more to say": The story of Joan Jett, rebel with a cause

How teenage Runaway Joan Jett turned into a grown-up luminary for music with attitude, humanist politics and gender equality

Multichannel News

Martin Scorsese’s Film on David Johansen Premieres on Showtime

‘Personality Crisis: One Night Only’ looks at influential New York singer

The Independent UK

Scorsese waltzes with David Johansen in 'Personality Crisis'

Martin Scorsese says he hopes today's powerful streaming companies will do more to sustain moviegoing by building theaters of their own

People

Arnold Schwarzenegger

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.