Lipstick Killers: Mercer Street Sessions, 1972

VINYL FORMAT. The New York Dolls Lipstick Killers is historically and commercially one of ROIR's most important rock n' roll releases. The NY Dolls had been together only four and a half months when they entered a small studio in NYC and made these demos, produced by Marty Thau. This is the original band, straight from playing a tumultuous weekly residency at the avant-garde art mecca, The Mercer Arts Center. It included drummer Billy Murcia, who soon after died from an overdose during the Dolls first gigs in the U.K.

Lipstick Killers is how the band truly sounded, raw and live, before they were put into the studio by Mercury records where their special unique energy was commercially doctored by Todd Rundgren and Shadow Morton for their two major label releases. This album from deep in the archives re-writes history!