New York Dolls - Return of the New York Dolls: Live From Royal Festival Hall, 2004

Reunion shows by bands with a major creative legacy are always a problematic matter, and when Morrissey persuaded the surviving members of The New York Dolls to play a set at the 2004 Meltdown Festival in London (which he curated), lots of fans wondered aloud if David Johansen, Sylvain Sylvain and Arthur Kane had any real business calling this band the Dolls without the presence of deceased guitar hero Johnny Thunders (and to a lesser extent, without similarly absent drummer Jerry Nolan). Read More