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Sylvain Sylvain, New York Dolls Cofounder, Dies at 69 Guitarist announced he had cancer in 2019Ross A. Lincoln and Margeaux Sippell | January 14, 2021 @ 7:53 PM Last Updated: January 14, 2021 @ 8:08 PM Getty Images Sylvain Sylvain, the guitarist who was a founding member of the pioneering rock group New York Dolls, died Wednesday following a battle with cancer. He was 69. His death was announced Thursday; In a statement, his friend, Patti Smith Group guitarist Lenny Kaye wrote in part that “Syl loved rock and roll. His onstage joy, his radiant smile as he chopped at his guitar...

By: Deborah Speer Phil Bourne/Redferns via Getty Images) Sylvain SylvainSylvain Sylvain of the New York Dolls at The Old Vic Tunnels in London March 30, 2011Sylvain Sylvain, the legendary guitarist and co-founder of the New York Dolls, died January 13 after battling cancer, his wife Wanda Mizrahi announced via Facebook. He was 69. The band led a music movement that bridged punk rock and glam in New York City in the early to mid-1970s, before either genre became fashionable. Fittingly, perhaps, the band broke up in 1977, as their music became more m...

R.I.P. New York Dolls guitarist Sylvain Sylvain Photo: Phil Bourne/Redferns via Getty Images Sylvain Sylvain has died. As the guitarist and co-founder of the New York Dolls, Sylvain charted an unpredictable course between the forces of hard rock, glam, and the earliest dregs of what would one day be punk at the dawn of the ’70s New York club scene, marrying fashion, cynicism, and a frequently determined lack of interest in musicianship into a bold new iteration of modern music. Reviving the group to surprise acclaim in the early 2000s with his old colleague David Johansen (also known, arou...

Sylvain Sylvain, songwriter and founding guitarist with punk icons the New York Dolls, died Wednesday (Jan. 13) following a battle with cancer.

Sylvain Sylvain, New York Dolls Guitarist, Dies at 69 Sylvain Sylvain, the guitarist for the proto-punk band New York Dolls, died on Jan. 13 at the age of 69. A message was posted to his personal Facebook page. "As most of you know, Sylvain battled cancer for the past two and 1/2 years," it read. "Though he fought it valiantly, yesterday he passed away from this disease. While we grieve his loss, we know that he is finally at peace and out of pain. Please crank up his music, light a candle, say a prayer and let’s send this beautiful doll on his way."