Stars pay tribute to New York Dolls Sylvain Sylvain
Updated / Friday, 15 Jan 2021
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Sylvain Sylvain
Slash, Billy Idol, Jonathan Ross and David Johansen have been among those paying tribute to New York Dolls guitarist Sylvain Sylvain after he died of cancer at the age of 69.
As part of the pioneering 1970s rock band, Sylvain forged a musical link between punk and glam, and helped to inspire the new wave movement.
His wife, Wanda O Kelley Mizrahi, announced his death in a statement on his official Facebook page.
She said: As most of you know, Sylvain battled cancer for the past two and 1/2 years. Though he fought it valiantly, yesterday he passed away from this disease.
MC5 as the dog whistles that roused first-generation punk rock into action. Consider the cultural context into which the Dolls came strutting in 1973:
James Taylor is topping the charts, and Richard Nixon is in the White House, as rock bands too stoned to add the “‘n’ roll” to the music’s name played interminable guitar and drum solos to packed arenas. What happened to the flash and excitement of
“Basically, what we wanted out of music was something simple, powerful and sexy, topped with a hook that would just drive you crazy,” Sylvain told this writer in a 1997 interview that ran in a New York Dolls oral history for
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Sylvain co-founded the New York Dolls in 1971 (Image: GETTY)
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The musician contributed bass, piano and songwriting to the groundbreaking band’s first two albums New York Dolls and 1974’s Too Much Too Soon, which helped land the band at a landmark spot in history, with their self-titled 1973 debut on the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list.
He was formerly a member of the band Actress alongside Arthur Kane, Johnny Thunders and Billy Murcia before co-founding New York Dolls in 1971.
In 2018, Sylvain recalled the band s struggles when they first started out, noting that their earlier songs were the ones that made them superstars .