Glam Rock band, musical halfway between the Rolling Stones and the Sex Pistols. During their live shows dosten the band members as expired transvestites. Besides the group stage alive equally tempestuous which culminated in the fatal overdose of drummer Billy Murcia. The group was only five years, but wrote with their self-titled debut album (1973) called a rock classic. The music of "The Dolls'
… proved a major influence on the New York punk movement of the late seventies. All Dolls singer David Johansen proved the most successful. In 2004 the surviving founders of the group together for a reunion.more