Flashback: The New York Dolls Rise From the Dead in 2004 — rollingstone.com

A little over 10 years ago, a rock & roll miracle happened at London's Royal Festival Hall: The surviving members of the New York Dolls put aside their vast differences to reunite for their first concert in three decades. To fans of the protopunk icons, the announcement of the show came as an absolute shock. Dolls guitarist Johnny Thunders and the group's drummer Jerry Nolan both passed away in the early 1990s, frontman David Johansen had been pretty clear for years that he had absolutely no interest in any sort of reunion and bassist Arthur "Killer" Kane had fallen almost completely off the grid, living in a tiny apartment in Los Angeles and working for the Mormon church at the Family History Library. 

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