David Johansen: His Life In Photos

David Johansen, the groundbreaking punk musician and tastemaker who shook up fashion’s then-rigid gender norms, died on Friday after a Valentine’s Day announcement of stage 4 cancer, a brain tumor, and a broken back. He was 75.

The vocalist for the influential 1970s-era punk band the New York Dolls hit the mainstream in the 1980s and ‘90s as satire-adjacent lounge act Buster Poindexter; his song “Hot, Hot, Hot” has served as the soundtrack to countless wedding receptions, commercials,…