It's difficult to think of three rock artists who sound less alike than Morrissey, Todd Rundgren and the Sex Pistols, yet all of them share one very unlikely common denominator. So, for that matter, do Kiss, Guns N' Roses, The Libertines and countless hair-metal bands that emerged from Los Angeles, London and points beyond in the 1980s and 1990s.

Yes, it's the New York Dolls — at least two of whose former members tragically embodied the "live fast/die young" ethos that ...

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