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All Dolled Up

Life, Death, and the Dolls

The New York Dolls created a sound that didn’t exist before they made it. Sure they had some influence from the Stooges and MC5, but by flashing a lethal dose of stripped-down, dirty glam rock spat out by a cross-dressing bunch of misfits in 1971, they get the title of the Empire State’s first punk […]

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