“The world wasn’t ready for them,” Morrissey said in 2004. “Often it takes death within a group and then people say, ‘Ah, yes. We do like those people now that they’re not here.’” That didn’t happen with David Johansen. He went out knowing how much the world was grateful to have him. And as long as his songs are playing somewhere, the lonely planet boy will never be far away — always a human being, always wanting too many things. {read}