This is another band that I'd been interested to check out and have now been given an excuse to via by the list.
While the press dismissed the band as little more than Rolling Stones imitators in drag (there is some musical common ground with the band's sound having its roots in a raunchy, rocking iteration of 50s style rock n roll) the Dolls were adopted by Warhol's Arts Factory entourage and even touted by some as the next Velvet Underground. It's a good, fun record with a suitable dose of snark and attitude.
They ended up disbanding a couple of years later due to various acrimonies built up through their Dolls lifestyle. At the end of their career, their manager Malcolm McLaren thought that they were on to something and decided to use their sound and attitude to put together his own band, the Sex Pistols.
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