David Johansen

David Johansen

Born: January 9, 1950
in Staten Island, New York City, New York, USA
David Roger Johansen (born January 9, 1950) is an American rock, protopunk, blues, and pop singer, songwriter and actor. He is best known as a member of the seminal protopunk band The New York Dolls. He is also known for his work under the pseudonym Buster Poindexter. David has appeared in several films including Car 54, Where Are You? and Scrooged with Bill Murray.

Movies for David Johansen...

Personality Crisis: One Night Only
Title: Personality Crisis: One Night Only
Character: Self / Buster Poindexter
Released: October 12, 2022
Type: Movie
A portrait of musician David Johansen from Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi featuring a live performance at Café Carlyle in New York City, where he performs as Buster Poindexter singing the Johansen songbook, along with new and archival interviews.
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Title: Centaurworld
Character: Beartaur (voice)
Released: July 30, 2021
Type: TV
Centaurworld follows a war horse who is transported from her embattled world to a strange land inhabited by silly, singing centaurs of all species, shapes, and sizes. Desperate to return home, she befriends a group of these magical creatures and embarks on a journey that will test her more than any battle she's ever faced before.
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Above the Shadows
Title: Above the Shadows
Character: Ron
Released: May 31, 2019
Type: Movie
A young woman who has faded to the point of becoming invisible must find her way back with the help of the one man who can see her.
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Always at The Carlyle
Title: Always at The Carlyle
Character: Self
Released: May 11, 2018
Type: Movie
The iconic Carlyle hotel has been an international destination for a particular jet set as well as a favorite haunt of the most discernible New Yorkers.
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Vince Giordano: There's a Future in the Past
Title: Vince Giordano: There's a Future in the Past
Released: January 13, 2017
Type: Movie
Bandleader Vince Giordano keeps the Jazz Age alive with his 11-member band The Nighthawks, vintage musical instruments, and a collection of more than 60,000 original arrangements from the 1920s and '30s.
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A Very Murray Christmas
Title: A Very Murray Christmas
Character: The Bartender
Released: December 4, 2015
Type: Movie
Bill Murray worries no one will show up to his TV show due to a massive snowstorm in New York City. Through luck and perseverance, guests arrive at Gotham’s Carlyle Hotel to help him — dancing and singing in holiday spirit.
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Glass Chin
Title: Glass Chin
Character: Stanley Loori
Released: April 19, 2014
Type: Movie
After going down in the fifth round, boxer Bud Gordon bowed out of the limelight. Now residing in a fixer-upper apartment in New Jersey with his girlfriend, Bud longs for his former Manhattan glory. In an effort to get back in the game, he makes a deal with a crooked restaurateur. But quick schemes rarely bring easy pay-offs and as the consequences of his business negotiations unfold, Bud has to make a choice between his integrity and his aspirations.
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Clockwork Orange County
Title: Clockwork Orange County
Character: Self
Released: July 4, 2012
Type: Movie
Many objected to leather-jacket, spike-hair kids with tattoos. But, that did not dissuade a generation... No one realized that a little club in Costa Mesa, CA would end up spawning a multi-billion dollar youth culture that still endures today! It was the Cuckoos Nest of the late 70s and early 80s. With archival, unseen and new footage, the filmmakers compiled an intimate story about the beginning of a movement, a place of refuge for a youth culture, a fearful establishment and a police force that didnt understand what was happening.
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New York Dolls: Lookin' Fine on Television
Title: New York Dolls: Lookin' Fine on Television
Released: November 22, 2011
Type: Movie
The legendary and infamous New York Dolls at their best! Amazing rare live clips and interviews filmed by Bob Gruen and Nadya Beck in the heady days of the band's ascension in the 70s. Footage from early shows in NYC all the way to the TV studios, clubs and swimming pools of Los Angeles. Black and white film was never so colorful! Includes ripping versions of "Personality Crisis," "Who Are the Mystery Girls?" "Babylon" and more. See the incredible early days of the band that influenced generations of punks and rockers.
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New York Dolls: Live From The Bowery
Title: New York Dolls: Live From The Bowery
Character: Himself
Released: March 16, 2011
Type: Movie
On March 16th, 2011, to kick off the release of their album "Dancing Backward in High Heels," the New York Dolls, the godfathers of punk and glam rock, took it to the place where it all began, New York City's Lower East Side for a high styled High Def production.
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New York Rock at the BBC
Title: New York Rock at the BBC
Released: June 24, 2008
Type: Movie
Celebrating the cream of the New York rock scene, including classic performances from the Ramones, New York Dolls, Television, Blondie, Lou Reed and more. 01.New York Dolls - Jet Boy (Nov 1973) 02.Patti Smith Group - Horses (May 1976) 03.Talking Heads - Psycho Killer (Jan 1978) 04.Television - Foxhole (May 1978) 05.Ramones - Don't Come Close (Sep 1978) 06.Blondie - I'm Alway Touched By Your Presence Dear (Mar 1978) 07.Lou Reed - Waiting For The Man (Dec 1984) 08.John Cale - Dying On The Vine (Dec 1985) 09.Sonic Youth - Sugar Kane (Dec 1992) 10.Patti Smith - Because The Night (Apr 2002) 11.Lou Reed - Perfect Day (May 2003) 12.John Cale - Venus In Furs (Oct 2003) 13.David Byrne - This Must Be The Place (May 2004) 14.Antony And The johnsons - Hope There's Some One (Jun 2005) 15.The Strokes - Last Nite (Jun 2006)
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The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music
Title: The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music
Character: Self
Released: February 1, 2007
Type: Movie
The Old, Weird America tracks the history of the Anthology of American Folk Music from its initial compilation of 78 records from rural Americana to its 1952 release on Folkways Records, the urban folk revival of the 1960s, and its continuing influence on contemporary music.
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Motherfucker: A Movie
Title: Motherfucker: A Movie
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
Documentary about the black gay scene in New York
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The Return of the New York Dolls
Title: The Return of the New York Dolls
Character: Himself
Released: November 21, 2006
Type: Movie
After 27 years apart, the three surviving members of the New York Dolls, David Johansen, Sylvain Sylvain & Arthur 'Killer' Kane, re-united at London’s Royal Festival Hall at the request of their number one uber-fan, Morrissey, as part of 2004's Meltdown Festival. This is the whole gig, featuring all the classic tunes from their early 1970s heyday.
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The Harry Smith Project Live
Title: The Harry Smith Project Live
Character: Self
Released: November 7, 2006
Type: Movie
Hal Willner's Harry Smith Project concerts in London, New York and Los Angeles celebrated the eccentric collector genius and his influential Anthology of American Folk Music. Instrumental in inspiring the urban folk revival of the 1960s, the Anthology's continuing impact on modern music is incalculable. Drawing on this legacy, these landmark shows brought together a remarkable roster of artists performing their own unique interpretations of these classic songs.
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New York Dolls: All Dolled Up
Title: New York Dolls: All Dolled Up
Character: Himself
Released: December 6, 2005
Type: Movie
In the early 70’s, Rock photographer Bob Gruen and his wife Nadya purchased a portable Video Recorder. In a period of three years they shot over 40 hours of New York Dolls footage. Now for the first time ever this footage is unveiled. This feature length documentary captures the band during early performances in New York at Kenny’s Castaways and Max’s Kansas City, then follows the Dolls on their tour of the West Coast, including footage from the Whisky A Go Go, the Real Don Steele Show, Rodney Bingenheimer’s E Club and much more. Intercut with revealing interviews, backstage banter and late night debauchery, this is THE definitive document of the New York Dolls.
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Punk: Attitude
Title: Punk: Attitude
Character: Himself
Released: July 4, 2005
Type: Movie
A documentary on the music, performers, attitude and distinctive look that made up punk rock.
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New York Doll
Title: New York Doll
Character: Self
Released: January 20, 2005
Type: Movie
A recovering alcoholic and recently converted Mormon, Arthur "Killer" Kane, of the rock band The New York Dolls, is given a chance at reuniting with his band after 30 years.
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Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus
Title: Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus
Character: Himself
Released: July 9, 2004
Type: Movie
A stunningly-photographed, thought-provoking road trip into the heart of the poor white American South. Singer Jim White takes his 1970 Chevy Impala through a gritty terrain of churches, prisons, truckstops, biker bars and coalmines. Along the way are roadside encounters with present-day musical mavericks the Handsome Family, David Johansen, David Eugene Edwards of 16 Horsepower and old-time banjo player Lee Sexton, and grisly stories from the cult Southern novelist Harry Crews.
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Lightning in a Bottle
Title: Lightning in a Bottle
Character: Self
Released: February 12, 2004
Type: Movie
On February 7th, 2003, renowned artists across multiple music genres and generations commandeered the stage at New York City's Radio City Music Hall to pay tribute to their common heritage and passion - the blues. Shared with thousands of fans in attendance, legendary performers from roots, rock, jazz and rap joined forces for a once-in-a-lifetime "Salute To The Blues" benefit concert whose proceeds went to musical education.
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Title: Teen Titans
Character: Ding Dong Daddy Dowd (voice)
Released: July 19, 2003
Type: TV
The Teen Titans are five heroes under one roof. Robin, Starfire, Raven, Cyborg, and Beast Boy live in a large tower in the shape of a T that they call Titan Tower. No secret identities. No school. Just superheroes being superheroes. They must go up against their arch nemesis, Slade, and his evil minions. What he really plans to do is unknown but one thing's for sure... he's an evil madman.
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Mayor of the Sunset Strip
Title: Mayor of the Sunset Strip
Character: Self
Released: June 17, 2003
Type: Movie
A look at the history of fame in the world through the eyes of pop star impresario, Rodney Bingenheimer
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Crooked Lines
Title: Crooked Lines
Character: Charlie
Released: May 18, 2003
Type: Movie
Johnny, Chris, Sal, and Joe are four petty crooks thrown together for the job of a lifetime. $1 million in mob money being held at a delicatessen for pick-up seems like an easy score until the bumbling quartet collaborate to mess the whole thing up. Suddenly the Brooklyn mafia and police are on their trail and the fool proof plan now looks like a death trap.
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End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones
Title: End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: January 19, 2003
Type: Movie
A years-in-the-making documentary on the legendary punk band the Ramones. Through a mixture of archival footage, archival and new interviews with all members of the band's various lineups, and new interviews with a number of their contemporaries, the film traces the peaks and valleys the band experienced over the course of its 20-plus year career before disbanding in 1995.
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God Is On Their Side
Title: God Is On Their Side
Character: God
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
The American Army holds a mass prayer offensive in order to convince God (David Johansen) to support their country in a major war. With God officially on their side, the army decides to stage a full-scale war.
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Campfire Stories
Title: Campfire Stories
Character: Ranger Bill
Released: October 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Two teens on their way to a backwoods party come across a beautiful young woman having car trouble. Their search for help only gets them lost, deep in the woods, where they meet Forest Ranger Bill with a penchant for scary stories. The campfire flickers long into the night as the ranger uses words to weave his tapestry of terror, filling their young minds with a host of horrific images that will be burned into your consciousness long after the fire's last embers have gone out. Insane doctors, Indian ghosts, bad drugs, a deranged handyman with shiny new shears - all that and more awaits anyone brave enough to stay until sunrise... if you live that long! - Written by Schleppy
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25 Years of Punk
Title: 25 Years of Punk
Character: Self
Released: April 19, 2001
Type: Movie
Lou Reed narrates this Television special that takes a look back at the beginnings of the punk rock movements in New York & England, the underground punk scenes in the 70's & 80's, and the punk resurgence in the 90's. A collaboration between VH1 and Spin magazine.
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Title: Deadline
Released: October 2, 2000
Type: TV
Deadline is a television series which was shown on NBC in the 2000–2001 season. It starred Oliver Platt as Wallace Benton, who worked for the fictional New York Ledger. This was a daily newspaper which was seen in many episodes of Law & Order.
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The Filth and the Fury
Title: The Filth and the Fury
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 29, 2000
Type: Movie
Julien Temple's second documentary profiling punk rock pioneers the Sex Pistols is an enlightening, entertaining trip back to a time when the punk movement was just discovering itself. Featuring archival footage, never-before-seen performances, rehearsals, and recording sessions as well as interviews with group members who lived to tell the tale--including the one and only John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten).
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New York Dolls: TV Treasures
Title: New York Dolls: TV Treasures
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
Compilation of extremely rare footage of the legendary New York Dolls. Live material, interviews, radio adverts, mentions on TV News programmes, it's all here.
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200 Cigarettes
Title: 200 Cigarettes
Character: Tiki Bartender
Released: February 26, 1999
Type: Movie
In 1981 New York City, a collection of twentysomethings try to cope with relationships, loneliness, desire and their individual neuroses on New Years Eve.
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Nick and Jane
Title: Nick and Jane
Character: Carter
Released: November 14, 1997
Type: Movie
N.Y. corporate Jane discovers her boyfriend John in bed with another woman, leaves building enraged and jumps into cab. Her driver is Nick. Jane and her friend Vickie have a plan - to make John jealous, they'll give Nick a false corporate identity and pass him off as Jane's new boyfriend.
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The Deli
Title: The Deli
Character: The Cabbie
Released: November 7, 1997
Type: Movie
An enchanting slice-of-life comedy about a hard luck gambler who gets in over his head when he starts putting his store's profits on the line.
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Title: Oz
Character: Eli Zabitz
Released: July 12, 1997
Type: TV
The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their mutual enemies.
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Cats Don't Dance
Title: Cats Don't Dance
Character: Bus Driver (voice)
Released: March 26, 1997
Type: Movie
An ambitious singing and dancing cat goes to Hollywood and overcomes several obstacles to fulfill his dream of becoming a movie star.
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The Weinerville Chanukah Special
Title: The Weinerville Chanukah Special
Character: Gonsah K'nocker (as Buster Poindexter)
Released: December 14, 1995
Type: Movie
The Weinerville Gang is throwing a Hanukkah party at the Weinerville Ski Lodge. Upon preparations on the decorations, two aliens crash landed their ship at the lodge who both resemble giant potato pancakes. The aliens explain how they escape form their planet after being fed up with their planet's leader who forces his citizens to do anything with the powers of his ray gun. The gang decides to help them out buy buying vegetable oil at the local store and return to the lodge. While at the lodge the gang and the refuge aliens encounter the alien leader with his army have just taken over the Ski lodge. How will the gang be able to save their refuge friends from another world?
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Burnzy's Last Call
Title: Burnzy's Last Call
Character: Andre
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
A downtown Manahattan gin mill plays host to a series of comic vignettes.
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Car 54, Where Are You?
Title: Car 54, Where Are You?
Character: Officer Gunther Toody
Released: January 28, 1994
Type: Movie
Brash NYC policeman Officer Gunther Toody is partnered with stiff, by-the-book Officer Francis Muldoon to protect an important mafia witness prior to testifying against orgainzed crime in Brooklyn, all the while dealing with their personal lives, overbearing spouses, common criminals, arms dealers, and their officious boss Captain Anderson.
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September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill
Title: September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill
Character: Self
Released: January 25, 1994
Type: Movie
Filmmaker Larry Weinstein stages a wide range of performances in tribute to the compositions of Kurt Weill.
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Naked in New York
Title: Naked in New York
Character: Orangutang
Released: November 10, 1993
Type: Movie
Naked in New York begins in the car of grown up Jake, he is talking to us about his girlfriend, Joanne, and to whom you can turn to for help while facing life. From there it flashes back to his memories of his parents, college, house across from a squirrel infested peanut factory, best friend, writing career and Joanne.
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Mr. Nanny
Title: Mr. Nanny
Character: Thanatos
Released: April 2, 1993
Type: Movie
A former pro-wrestler is hired to be the bodyguard/nanny for a couple of bratty kids whose inventor father is being stalked by a rival.
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Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel
Title: Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel
Character: Auggie
Released: April 24, 1992
Type: Movie
Right after Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California, in 1955, a toy salesman in town for a convention brings his wife with him so they can both go to Disneyland. They stay at a rundown place called the Sunset Motel nearby. Soon the wife is having an affair with a man staying at the motel. The husband hires a psychotic criminal to spy on them, the wife and her lover plan to murder the husband, and the voyeuristic motel manager is spying on everybody.
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Freejack
Title: Freejack
Character: Brad Carter
Released: January 17, 1992
Type: Movie
Time-traveling bounty hunters find a doomed race-car driver in the past and bring him to 2009 New York, where his mind will be replaced with that of a terminally ill billionaire.
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Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
Title: Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
Character: Halston (segment ‘Cat From Hell’)
Released: May 3, 1990
Type: Movie
A young boy tells three stories of horror to distract a witch who plans to eat him.
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Let It Ride
Title: Let It Ride
Character: Looney
Released: August 18, 1989
Type: Movie
An average kind of guy who has a slight problem with gambling goes to the track, and mystically, it seems as though he can't lose, no matter how he bets; and he has an incredible day.
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The Ventures: 30 Years of Rock 'n' Roll (30th Anniversary Super Session)
Title: The Ventures: 30 Years of Rock 'n' Roll (30th Anniversary Super Session)
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
The Ventures are an American instrumental rock band formed in 1958 in Tacoma, Washington. Founded by Don Wilson and Bob Bogle, the group in its various incarnations has had an enduring impact on the development of music worldwide. With over 100 million records sold, the group is the best-selling instrumental band of all time. In 2008, the Ventures were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Scrooged
Title: Scrooged
Character: Ghost of Christmas Past
Released: November 22, 1988
Type: Movie
Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after firing a staff member on Christmas Eve, Frank is visited by a series of ghosts who give him a chance to re-evaluate his actions and right the wrongs of his past.
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Married to the Mob
Title: Married to the Mob
Character: 'The Priest'
Released: August 19, 1988
Type: Movie
Angela de Marco is fed up with her gangster husband's line of work and wants no part of the crime world. When her husband is killed for having an affair with the mistress of mob boss Tony "The Tiger" Russo, Angela and her son depart for New York City to make a fresh start. Unfortunately, Tony has set his sights upon Angela -- and so has an undercover FBI agent looking to use her to bust Tony.
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Candy Mountain
Title: Candy Mountain
Released: January 20, 1988
Type: Movie
A mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker
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Title: The Equalizer
Character: Garnet
Released: September 18, 1985
Type: TV
Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them.
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Title: Miami Vice
Released: September 16, 1984
Type: TV
The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership of Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs - who first meet when Tubbs is undercover in a drug cartel.
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Night Lunch
Title: Night Lunch
Character: Self
Released: December 9, 1975
Type: Movie
This is Poe and Král's first effort, shot on small-gauge stock, before their more well-known endeavor The Blank Generation (1976) came to be. A "DIY" portrait of the New York music scene, the film is a patchwork of footage of numerous rock acts performing live, at venues like Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, the dive bars of Greenwich Village and, of course, CBGB.
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Title: Saturday Night Live
Character: Self - Musical Guest
Released: October 11, 1975
Type: TV
A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, and features performances by a musical guest.