David Johansen, the former lead singer for the New York Dolls, whose unvarnished sound and flamboyant style helped inspire punk and glam rock in the 1970s, has died at age 75, his wife Mara Hennessey said on Saturday.

David Johansen, the gravelly-voiced singer, was last surviving member of the glam and protopunk band the New York Dolls.

David Johansen, the frontman and last surviving member of the glam and punk pioneering band, the New York Dolls, has died at age 75. David Johansen was also known as his pompadoured alter ego, Buster Poindexter,