New York Dolls

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• New York Dolls

  Fact: New York Dolls were the single biggest musical influence on Morrissey - he used to run their UK fan club - but you shouldn’t hold that against them; their legacy is representative of so much more than that. During the first four years of their career, they laid the foundations for two of the biggest rock stylings of the coming decades - punk, which dominated the seventies, and glam rock, which defined the eighties. In fact, by the time they split in 1977, they’d secured a legacy not dissimilar to that of the Sex Pistols - sure, they had two records rather than one, but they were certainly viewed as one of the most important bands of the period in the years that followed. They’d eventually reunite in 2004 - at Morrissey’s organisation, to his credit - for Meltdown Festival, although the death of Arthur Kane shortly afterwards destabilised plans to continue, at least initially. Later on, though, the two surviving members would embark upon energetic tours of small UK venues that did their legacy justice, which is more that you can say for the new albums they produced; they continue to play across the world today, and have opened for the likes of Motley Crue and Poison, bands that - as with Morrissey - they were instrumental in ensuring the formation of.

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