Donors to the Sweet Relief fund also include Sony Music’s Rob Stringer, Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready and the George Lopez Foundation.

New York Dolls singer David Johansen has been living with cancer for nearly a decade, but a recent fall has made his medical care more difficult.

David Johansen - the sole surviving founding member of the New York Dolls and a solo artist who also performs as the lounge singer Buster Poindexter - is suffering from stage four cancer, a brain tumor and a broken back,