Lipstick Killers – The Mercer Street Sessions 1972

Lipstick Killers - The Mercer Street Sessions 1972
Compilation album by
ReleasedNovember 1981
RecordedJune 1972
StudioBlue Rock Studio, New York City
GenreGlam punk
Length40:19
LabelROIR
ProducerMarty Thau
New York Dolls chronology
Too Much Too Soon
(1974)
Lipstick Killers - The Mercer Street Sessions 1972
(1981)
Red Patent Leather
(1984)
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AllMusic
Robert ChristgauC+
Spin Alternative Record Guide3/10

Lipstick Killers – The Mercer Street Sessions 1972 is a 1981 album of demos by the New York Dolls.

Lipstick Killers is the only Dolls album to feature original drummer Billy Murcia, who died during a tour in London in 1972. Six of the nine tracks were later re-recorded for their self titled debut. "Don't Start Me Talking" and "Human Being" were later re-recorded for Too Much Too Soon. Their cover of Otis Redding's "Don't Mess with Cupid" was never re-recorded. The producer of the Mercer Street Sessions, Marty Thau, was the person who discovered and managed the Dolls.