There's No Bones in Ice Cream

'The visionary eye of the New York Dolls' storm' Guardian

The New York Dolls were many things: glam, protopunk, hard rock, dirty rock‘n’roll... They pioneered an androgynous style with a street-smart New York attitude and campy humour, ushering in the era of CBGBs, loud guitars and referential lyrics.

Sylvain Sylvain was there from the band’s inception, and this is the story from the eye of the hurricane. Taking in his birth to a Sephardic Jewish family in Cairo, his early life in New York, his antics as guitarist for the Dolls and all his misadventures between, There’s No Bones in Ice Cream is the true story of one of rock’s greatest, told in his own voice.

A sincere, eye-opening, often hilarious account of the rise and fall of the New York Dolls, as well as the personal highs and lows of fame, this book is an unmissable document of a life lived in fearless pursuit of art, music and a damn good time.

'Stories galore … affectionate, sometimes lurid portrait of his band’ MOJO