Joey Ramone

Gimme gimme the Ramones, forever

Music / April 25, 2016 / 5 minutes of reading

My favourite quote about the Ramones comes from Richard Hell, the New York provocateur who, along with Tom Verlaine, formed the art-punk band Television in 1974 and – with the help of threadbare clothes held together with safety pins, on account of the fact they were too poor to buy any more – was already […]

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Richie Ramone: Too tough to die

Music / April 25, 2016 / 3 minutes of reading

You can understand Richie Ramone not wanting to walk under ladders, much less wanting to open that door, and absolutely not wanting to go down to the basement. “I thought there was a curse,” he admits. “I was really careful walking down the street, you know, because everybody went that young.” Born Richie Reinhardt, the Ramones’

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