David Johansen wasn’t an easy sell on a documentary about his music, even from director Martin Scorsese. Johansen says it was his family that talked him into letting Scorsese film his performance for the documentary Personality Crisis: One Night Only.
Now, he’s happy with the result — relatively. “I only cringed two or three times during this film,” Johansen said at Deadline’s Sound and Screen: Television event. “I do live shows, they go up into the ether and they’re gone.
So this is like a document of who I was at that moment.” Record producer Jack Douglas joined Johansen onstage for the panel conversation.
Douglas, the film’s music producer, has produced Johansen’s music going back to his time in the New York Dolls in the ‘70s. “I’ve always been impressed by the lyrics,” Douglas said. “This band musically was more professional so they supported the lyrics.
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