McCartney's botched showpiece was the reason he pushed Lennon to bring George Harrison into the Quarrymen. The rest is ...

His very first solo with the Quarrymen, a band that later evolved into the Beatles, ended up relegating Paul McCartney to bass guitar.

The Beatles' lineup was defined from the beginning by the members, who accepted their individual limitations and brought in ...

This week on Liner Notes, we discuss “Songs from the Big Chair,” the 1985 masterpiece that captured the complexities of human ...

The group worked relentlessly after reforming in 2004, and spent their last year opening up for Mötley Crüe and Poison in ...

David Johansen's death ends a unique career as a quintessential New York City artist, with turns that also included a recent stint as a DJ and actor.

The wiry, gravelly-voiced singer was the last surviving member of the New York Dolls and later performed as campy, ...

and I was doing the Harry Smith [solo] stuff. I thought it would be nice to have a little refresher thing. It figured it would be great to see Syl and Arthur. We were just going to do one show.

Standing, left to right: Jerry Nolan, Johnny Thunders, Arthur (Killer ... rock journalist and Patti Smith Group guitarist, in the 2014 documentary Looking For Johnny: The Legend of Johnny Thunders.

On Christmas Eve 1971, the New York Dolls (named after a doll-repair shop) had their first gig: Mr. Johansen as lead singer; guitarists Johnny Thunders and Rick Rivets; Arthur “Killer” Kane on ...

Johansen led the New York Dolls as a vanguard of the punk scene and later took as his alter ego the tuxedo-clad, pompadoured ...