Morrissey talks New York Dolls into reforming
Morrissey has talked the legendary New York Dolls into reforming for a one-off gig.
He's persuaded them to appear at London's Meltdown Festival where he's acting as creative director.
Morrissey contacted former New York Dolls singer David Johansen to ask him to get the group back together for the June event, reports MTV.com.
The former Smiths frontman even boasted that he was president of his local New York Dolls fan club as a kid.
"That was the last thing on my mind," Johansen says of the reunion idea, "but I thought about it for a couple of days and thought: "That could be a hoot.""
He called surviving members guitarist Sylvain Sylvain and bassist Arthur Kane and found them amenable to "having a hootenanny."
And he persuaded former Guns n' Roses guitarist Izzy Stradlin to fill in for the infamous, late guitarist Johnny Thunders.
