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The Ramones: Johnny Ramone
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In today's Weekend section, which was printed in advance, a review of the documentary "End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones" refers to Johnny Ramone as battling cancer. Ramone died Wednesday, and news of his death was released after the section went to press.
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The next year, the Ramones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Shortly thereafter, Dee Dee Ramone would ... die; his untimely demise due to a heroin overdose. Three years later, Johnny Ramone would pass away as well, having succumbed to prostate cancer. His death would eerily coincide with the theatrical release of “End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones”.
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This two-disc anthology of live Ramones footage is assembled chronologically so the viewer can really get a sense of how the band developed. Disc one features the original line-up of Johnny, Joey, Dee Dee and Tommy and begins with footage of a disorganized appearance at New York’s CBGB from 1974.
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In the summer of 2004, the Ramones documentary End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones was released in theaters. Johnny Ramone, who had been privately battling prostate cancer, died on September 15, 2004, in Los Angeles, California, almost exactly as the film was released.
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In the mid-'70s the Ramones shaped the sound of punk rock in New York with simple, fast songs, deadpan lyrics, no solos, and an impenetrable wall of guitar chords. Twenty years later, with virtually all of their peers either retired or having moved on to forms other than punk, Joey and Johnny Ramone, the band's core, continued adamantly to parlay the same determinedly basic sound.
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Maybe the idea was to sound like Thunders only without all those crazy solos. Playing an individual note and then another one after that - What is that, The Grateful Dead? Don't forget that Mister Thunders was an internationally notorious drug abuser - Who knows? - maybe all that "notes" stuff was some sort of hippie drug thing. Thunders was no hippie, but - Taking all those drugs, playing all those solos - how long until Thunders grew a beard and started wearing brown corderoy bell bottom pants? Johnny Ramone was too cool for that packy sack crap!
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