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The Dolls made Gary Glitter look presentable. Wearing
dishevelled
wigs , smudged lipstick, stilted platforms, painfully tight lurex pants and crimpoline
dresses they combined Iggy's anarchy, Lou Reeds brutality and street
sense and invoked the three minute pop song with the excitement it was
originally conceived. With this sort of attitude they raised hackles
everywhere.
Formed in
1972 they quickly made an impact .They may have had a fat lipped jagger look-alike
and a
junked up guitarist and all the while the band looking like brickies in
drag but nothing could compare to the mascara massacre of Bad Girl,
Frankenstein and the spiteful
Vietnamese Baby. The Dolls were outrageous. Thunders
falling off stage, shooting up when shoved back on stage, Sylvain Sylvain
toppling off his stack heels, Johanson gobbing at the audience before spit
was taken as a complimentary greeting. Their first drummer died from an overdose
in London in 72 after one too many night of excess leaving Jerry Nolan to
step on drums and later punk history with The Heartbreakers. As like so many USA bands we
took them to heart with them playing at Wembley Stadium with The Faces and
appearing on the Old Grey Whistle Test music programme to the obvious distaste
of it presenter Bob Harris.
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