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FOUND: Joey ramone - What They Never Told You

"We stopped playing for 10 minutes and ate pizza on-stage while the crowd watched." The Damned were the first UK punk band to tour America and it was an unforgettable experience for all involved

"We’d see Joey Ramone in the street and say hi"

Louder

Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson names the legendary punk singer who asked him for an autograph: “It’s not for me, it’s for my mother”

Not one but two punk icons outed themselves to Ian Anderson as secret Jethro Tull fans

Louder

"He was seriously wondering if the Ramones would ever make it as big as the Bay City Rollers." How the Ramones made the debut album that only sold 6000 copies but changed the world

Few bands shook the UK music scene like NYC punks the Ramones did in 1976. Fewer still can claim they actually built one. Welcome to a revolution

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It bombed in the charts, critics hated it – so how did the Ramones make one of the best debut albums ever?

INTERVIEW: Half a century ago, four New York misfits released a fast, loud, provocative first album that changed music forever. Kevin E G Perry talks to their manager Danny Fields, producer Craig Leon and photographer Roberta Bayley about how a chart bomb became one of the most influential records of…

The Independent UK

10 hard-rocking Christmas songs, from AC/DC to Christopher Lee

IN FOCUS: If you’re sick of hearing the same old festive cheese at this time of year, allow Kevin E G Perry to suggest an alternative playlist of full-throttle seasonal songs guaranteed to blow away the Christmas cobwebs

The Independent UK

"At first the tension was unbelievable. Johnny was really cold, Dee Dee was OK but Joey was a sweetheart": The story of the Ramones' recording of Baby I Love You

Legendary keys player Barry Goldberg on the sessions that spawned the band's biggest UK hit

MusicRadar

“The story of a misfit kid who grew up to be a punk rock hero”: Joey Ramone to be the subject of a new children’s book

Book will “speak to young folks navigating the complexities of growing up”

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Ramones family row puts the skids on US punk pioneers’ biopic

Removal of director from band’s parent company threatens to derail Netflix adaptation of divisive memoir

The Guardian - UK

I wanna be top-rated: Ramones’ 20 greatest songs – ranked!

Fifty years on from their first gig at New York’s CBGB, we rate the best work by the punk pioneers – even the hidden 1980s gems. Let’s go!

The Guardian - UK

“To permit defendants alone to tell the authoritative story of the Ramones would be an injustice to the band and its legacy.” Johnny Ramone’s widow files lawsuit over Joey Ramone movie plans

Linda Ramone takes issue with Netflix plan to make Joey Ramone biopic

Louder

“Gene looked like a transvestite, Paul looked like some whore and Ace looked like Shirley Maclaine”: the outrageous story of Kiss’s first 12 months

Kiss’s farewell tour is fast approaching its end – but this is how it all started, way back in 1973

Metal Hammer

Hilarity ensues as Slash, Dave Mustaine, Rick Nielsen, Dusty Hill, Joey Ramone and more "audition" for the Drew Carey Show

Is this the most star-studded line-up of musicians to ever appear on a comedy show?

Metal Hammer

The 10 best rock songs in The Bear, season two

Refused, Nine Inch Nails, AC/DC, Ramones... The most intense show on TV is back, and it's now even louder than before

Metal Hammer

There Goes My Hero: The Gallows Pole writer Ben Myers on Joey Ramone, the ultimate punk

Novelist Ben Myers (The Gallows Pole/The Offing) salutes Joey Ramone, the king of the underdogs

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What have The Ramones ever done for us?

They weren’t just a band. The Ramones were a goddamn revolution

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