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DAVID JOHANSEN: BUSTER POINDEXTER OR BUST!

David Johansen, lead singer with the late-but-great New York Dolls and one of the Big Apple's fave rock sons, has transformed himself into Buster Poindexter, lounge singer extraordinare. David Jo originally got the idea by performing with Holiday Inn lounge pianists while on tour, and then figured maybe there was a career in it.

July 2, 1984

DAVID JOHANSEN: BUSTER POINDEXTER OR BUST!

David Johansen, lead singer with the late-but-great New York Dolls and one of the Big Apple's fave rock sons, has transformed himself into Buster Poindexter, lounge singer extraordinare. David Jo originally got the idea by performing with Holiday Inn lounge pianists while on tour, and then figured maybe there was a career in it. Buster's been a big hit in Manhattan, so popular that Keith Richards and Delbert McClinton recently joined him onstage! Can an LP be very far behind? Eat your heart out, Bill Murray!

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