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New York Dolls is the debut studio album by the American rock band New York Dolls, released on July 27, 1973, by Mercury Records. An influential precursor to the 1970s punk rock movement, the eponymous album has been acclaimed as one of the best debut records in rock music and one of the greatest rock albums ever. In early 1973, the two-year-old band had developed a local fanbase by playing regularly in New York City's Lower Manhattan, but most music producers and record companies were reluctant to work with them because of their vulgarity and onstage fashion paired with homophobia in New York. Still, the Dolls signed a contract with Mercury and recorded their first album at the Record Plant in New York with producer Todd Rundgren, who was known for his sophisticated pop tastes and held a lukewarm opinion of the band. Despite stories of conflicts during the recording sessions, lead singer David Johansen and guitarist Sylvain Sylvain later said Rundgren captured how the band sounded live. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Yor...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
