David Dalton attends the 'POP: The Genius of Andy Warhol' book Launch at Tony Shafrazi Gallery on October 20, 2009 in New York City.writer who profiled the likes of Janis Joplin, Charles Manson and Little Richard before going on to pen biographies of some of pop culture’s most towering figures, died Monday in New York City at the age of 80. According to his son, Toby Dalton, the cause of death was cancer, Born John David Dalton on Jan.
15, 1942, Dalton grew up in London and British Columbia before eventually following his parents to the United States in the Sixties. He soon found himself immersed in the burgeoning underground art scene of New York City where, along with his sister, Dalton began working as an assistant for Andy Warhol. His proximity to Warhol and the Factory’s revolving cast of glitterati led the young Dalton to start photographing British Invasion bands and other artists.