Stiv Bators

Steven John Bators, known as Stiv Bators (October 22, 1949 - Paris, France, June 3, 1990) was an American rock and roll and punk rock singer and sometime guitarist, from Youngstown, Ohio, in the bands Rocket From The Tombs, The Dead Boys, The Wanderers, The Whores of Babylon (with Dee Dee Ramone and Johnny Thunders) and The Lords of the New Church. He also recorded as a solo artist.



In 1981, he co-starred in the John Waters film Polyester. Stiv also made a guest appearance as "Dick Slammer," the lead singer of "The Blender Children" in the 1988 film Tapeheads.



Bators died after being struck by a laundry truck whilst drunk and standing on a sidewalk in Paris; his girlfriend took him to see a doctor, but the doctor sent him home, where he died in his sleep. Bators was a fan and devotee of Jim Morrison, the lead singer of The Doors, and had visited Morrison's grave in the Pre Lachaise Cemetery on the morning of his death.