If horror-movie fans stuck around to the end of the 1989 movie Pet Sematary, they heard the Ramones song of the same name as the credits rolled. Some fans of Stephen King, whose same-titled book ...
It's a summer evening in 1976, and this writer is sitting in a BBC studio watching his teenage hero John Peel stoke the coming punk revolution by playing several tracks from the Ramones' recently ...
Ramones, to say the least, were the definition of a hard-luck band. For 22 years, the pioneering punk outfit survived near-constant infighting, drug and alcohol addiction, paltry record sales, and ...
When asked about the Ramones in the documentary Punk: Attitude, Mick Jones of The Clash said, “It was just like really short songs, really hard attack, no-nonsense.” Jeff Hyman, John Cummings, Doug ...
No band embodied the fun and grit of New York City better than the Ramones. On March 30, 1974, the Ramones put on their very first show, for 30 friends in a small studio on East 20th Street. “It was ...
“I was Richie Ramone when you wanted me to be,” he said in the 2003 documentary End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones. “And then I was just a hired guy when you wanted me to be. When it came to ...
Twenty years after retirement, their legacy is too tough to die. They’ve already received their own street mural, food truck, and routinely-stolen street sign. Now, New York’s punk godfathers the ...