Crawdaddy! The Magazine of Rock

Johnny Thunders is gone now. And that is a tragedy to be sure.

But tragedy is a funny thing, and its relationship to great art has been well-documented over the years. So, it comes as no surprise those 30 years worth of tragedy would provide the impetus for the New York Dolls’ stunning—if not wholly unexpected—resurgence.

Consider the fact that the Dolls are three decades removed from the Greenwich glam and boy-toy buzz that got them off the ground, that Andy Warhol is dead and he took the ’70s with him, or that Ziggy Stardust grew up and Malcolm McLaren moved on.

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