![]() ![]() … Joey and I used to talk about pop - listening to pop, making pop - all the time. Podcast host and producer Alan Cross (“The Ongoing History of New Music,” “The Secret History of Rock”) posted a lengthy item on the days leading up to Joey Ramone’s passing, and the conversations they had, at his Journal of Musical Things website.Īndy Paley, a songwriter, producer and one-time Paley Brother, worked with Sire Records labelmates the Ramones when they were in Los Angeles filming the “Rock & Roll High School” movie and soundtrack, and calls Joey “a good friend, and a great guy. Along with Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Keith Richards, Joey Ramone pledged alliance and allegiance by way of the song “Sun City.” The Ramones and Joey Ramone’s solo work, including his albums “Don’t Worry About Me” (2002) and “ …Ya Know?” (2012), have also been a part of Van Zandt’s “Underground Garage” radio shows on SiriusXM. Rhino Records, which holds the note on all Ramones reissues, publicized the release of the band’s “Triple J Live at the Wireless Capitol Theatre, Sydney, Australia, July 8, 1980” album in a limited edition of 13,000 copies for the July 17 Record Store Day Drop.Īs part of his outreach to his contemporaries, Little Steven Van Zandt hosted Ramone in 1985 as part of the music industry activist group Artists United Against Apartheid, which campaigned against the Sun City resort in South Africa. Leigh is also responsible for the annual anniversary celebrations of Joey Ramone’s birth, the Joey Ramone Birthday Bash, a live band-filled event that has its 20th iteration on May 20 with proceeds going to the Joey Ramone Foundation for Lymphoma Research. In further commemoration, the New York Post ran a handsome list of the “punk treasures inside Joey Ramone’s East Village apartment” - maintained by his brother, musician Mickey Leigh - which includes Joey’s report card from Forest Hills HS in Queens and Joey’s passport, sans his famed sunglasses. Variety reported earlier today that “I Slept With Joey Ramone” comes with the blessing from Joey Ramone’s estate, and that Leigh will serve as an executive producer on the film. Today’s announcement is that “Saturday Night Live” cast member Pete Davidson is signed to play Joey Ramone in the Netflix biopic “ I Slept With Joey Ramone,” based on Mickey Leigh’s book of the same name. ![]() (The group’s single “I Wanna Be Sedated” was finally certified platinum 40 years after its release, in 2018.) But like the Velvet Underground and the New York Dolls before them, the Ramones’ musical and pop cultural reach extended far beyond the five boroughs, with Joey’s snarling vocals and gangly, leather jacketed image turning him into a 20th century countercultural icon.Īnd while commemoration of the 20th anniversary of Joey Ramone’s passing has gone without the sort of note commandeered by other legacy artists or members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, there have been new reminiscences and fresh news. ![]() Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee and Tommy – the original Ramones, all deceased – never achieved million-seller status for any of their 14 albums or individual solo projects. Although he spent his professional life espousing the thrills of sniffing glue and spouting comically nihilistic barbs, having him actually die left the punk-rock community bereft. Joey was 49 when he passed, and was - according to both the Dictators’ Andy Shernoff and Bono - listening to U2’s “In a Little While” in his New York-Presbyterian Hospital bed when he died.īorn Jeffrey Ross Hyman in Queens, NY, he arose first as the singer of glam-punk avatars Sniper in 1972, then became the face of the Ramones from 1974 until their disbandment in 1996. In 2001, the Ramones’ singer and frontman died in New York City after a seven-year battle with lymphoma. The Ramones were one the important bridges of the ‘70s connecting the past with the future and will forever be an essential chapter in the history of rock.” “Pure rock ‘n’ roll, like most of us freaks who seek greatness by being incapable of doing anything else. “Joey Ramone was a beautiful cat,” said Steven Van Zandt in an email. ![]()
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