Video: New York Dolls - Looking for a kiss

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New York Dolls - Looking for a kiss
Due to extremely irksome tech problems, posting by moi has been uncharecteristically sporadic since Monday. A big mea culpa to all who care, and I promise to make it up to you next week. Seriously -- I'll be putting up stuff like a drunken sailor. Five or six items a day -- seven, if Kelefa Sanneh writes something stupid in the Times. In the meantime, here's a really cool live New York Dolls clip from The Old Grey Whistle Test you may not have seen before. [...]

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New York Dolls - Looking for a kiss
From 1973, here's The New York Dolls live on the Old Grey Whistle Test with "Looking for a Kiss." Legend has it that this is, in fact, the clip that inspired Morrisey to take his mopery public. It's amusing to think about how radical and threatening these guys seemed at the time, especially to the leftover rock royalty of the 60s. I believe it was Stephen Stills who came [...]