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The Ramones are cagey boys. Forest Hills, Queens was the first cage, now it’s Manhattan. (Tomorrow, the world.) The city may be a jungle but to the Ramones it felt more like a zoo. They were all brought up in Forest Hills, a neighborhood that apart from a certain exaggeration in scale and proximity to New York City looks and feels like 9/l0th’s of the populated territory of the modern USA (sounds like a German corporation). Big hatchery brown brick apartment houses along wide hot boulevards, with the spaces in between occupied by blacktop playgrounds, two story drugstores with storage space or a dentist’s offices upstairs, ice cream parlors, fast food, and supermarkets. (Elvis Presley, in fact, spent much of his boyhood in a similar housing development neighborhood in Memphis.) They’ve known each other for ten years, since their earliest teens.
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The "Godfathers of Punk", The Ramones - Johnny, Tommy, Joey and Dee Dee - are often considered to be the first punk rock group. The Ramones define the sound and attitude of mid-70s punk and played 2,263 concerts throughout their career. Here are some of their videos and sites about them. Add anything cool you can find.
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The Ramones continued their attempts at crossover success with their sixth album, Pleasant Dreams, which was released in 1981. Featuring a production by former Hollies and 10cc member Graham Gouldman, the record was a commercial disappointment in both America and England. The band was relatively quiet during 1982, spending most of their time touring. In the spring of 1983, the band returned with Subterranean Jungle, which was produced by Ritchie Cordell and Glen Koltkin, the heads of the American indie label Beserkley Records. Not only did Subterranean Jungle fail to gain the band the larger audience they desired, it continued the erosion of the band's diehard fan base, as well as their decline in the eyes of many rock critics. Following the album's release, Marky Ramone left the band; he was replaced by Richard Beau, a former member of the Velveteens, who changed his name to Richie Ramone (drums; born Richie Reinhardt, Aug. 11, 1957).
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The Ramones' sensational end-of-the-century juggernaut is chronicled as never before on this career-spanning collection. Johnny Ramone compiled Weird Tales, the first-ever Ramones box, before his death in 2004. Three audio discs gather 85 tracks, and an additional DVD presents an hour of rare footage and essential video clips. A full-color, 52-page book contains graphic novel liner notes and illustrations by 25 top comic artists, including Sergio Aragones (Mad magazine), Bill Stout (EC Comics), Bill Griffith (Zippy The Pinhead), Xaime Hernandez (Love And Rockets), and Carol Lay (WayLay). Must be seen to be believed!
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The Ramones' first British concert was held on July 4, 1976. Prior to the performance, the band hung out with fans who turned out to be members of the Sex Pistols and The Clash. During the meeting Paul Simonon claimed The Clash had not played a show yet because they felt they were not good enough, to which Johnny Ramone responded, "We stink. You don't have to be good, just get out there and play".[54] Later that day The Clash would play their first show.[55] Likewise another band who met with the Ramones that day, The Damned, played their first show 2 days later.[56][57] Similarly, early Ramones concerts in California inspired early California punk groups like Black Flag, the Dead Kennedys,[58] Bad Religion,[59] and Social Distortion.[60]
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The Ramones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002 and the surviving members reunited at a 2004 concert along with several other musicians to commemorate the band’s 30th anniversary and to raise money for cancer research. Johnny Ramone, who had been battling prostate cancer since 1999, died two days after the benefit concert.
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