Johnny Ramone
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Inventor of the down stroke guitar style that defined the groundbreaking sound of the legendary Ramones. This account is managed by the Johnny Ramone Army.
New York City, NYC
Joined July 2010
Remembering Lemmy, 24th December, 1945 - 28th December, 2015. #JohnnyRamoneArmy.#Ramones.#Lemmy.#Motorhead
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Legends never die. Remembering Johnny Ramone, 10/8/1948 - 9/15/2004. #JohnnyRamone.#Ramones.#JohnnyRamoneArmy
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47 years ago today, @RamonesOfficial released their debut album. “I saw our first album for the first time at Alexander’s, probably the day it was released, April 23, 1976. There it was. It was cool, sort of like the first time I heard myself on the radio.” Johnny Ramone
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“There was no more Ramones without Joey. He was irreplaceable,” Johnny Ramone. Remembering Joey Ramone, who left us 20 years ago today. May 19, 1951 – April 15, 2001. #JohnnyRamone.#JoeyRamone.#Ramones
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“Dee Dee was a punk. He had the look, he was a great songwriter. And he was the most influential punk rock bassist of all time. No one else even comes close.” - Johnny Ramone. Happy Birthday, Dee Dee, from the Johnny Ramone Army!. #JohnnyRamone #JohnnyRamoneArmy #DeeDeeRamone
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“One, Two, Three, Four!” On August 16th and 17th 1974 @RamonesOfficial played their first shows at C.B.G.B. Photo by @bobgruen01. #JohnnyRamone.#Ramones
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On this day, August 16th, 1974, @RamonesOfficial played their first show at CBGB. The rest is history… Legends never die!. #Ramones.#JohnnyRamoneArmy.#JohnnyRamone
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44 years ago this week, the Ramones made their first appearance at CBGB in New York City. CBGB would become the mecca of NYC punk & helped launch the Ramones career, making them one of the most influential punk bands of all time. #Ramones #RamonesHistory #JohnnyRamone #NYC #CBGB
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“Paul was practising bass to reggae songs and the first @RamonesOfficial album, which was seminal. Paul and I spent hours, days, weeks playing along to the record.” The Clash’s @JoeStrummer. The Johnny Ramone Army wishes a very Happy Birthday to Paul Simonon of @TheClash.
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Joey Ramone: May 19, 1951 - Apr 15, 2001. "To me, punk is about being an individual; and going against the grain; and standing up & saying, 'This is who I am.'" - Joey . Today we remember the greatest singer in punk rock history, Joey Ramone. #JoeyRamone #Ramones
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Johnny performing with @RamonesOfficial at Hammersmith Odeon, London, 1979. 📸 by David Corio.
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Calling all @RamonesOfficial Ramones fans: It's almost Ramones time. #Ramones #RamonesTime #HeyHoLetsGo #GabbaGabbaHey #Punk #PunkRock #JohnnyRamone
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50 years ago today, on August 16th, 1974, @RamonesOfficial made their debut at the legendary CBGBs. How will you be celebrating this monumental moment in music history?. #Ramones.#JohnnyRamone.#JohnnyRamoneArmy
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Remembering Johnny Ramone, 10/8/1948 - 9/15/2004. Legends never die. #JohnnyRamone.#Ramones.#JohnnyRamoneArmy.#LegendsNeverDie
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Ramones’ ‘Road To Ruin’ was released on this day in 1978 and was one of Johnny’s favorite albums by the band: “The production on this is the best of all of them, and there are so many good songs on it.” What’s your favorite track?. #JohnnyRamone.#JohnnyRamoneArmy.#ramones
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Happy 40th to @RamonesOfficial’s ‘Too Tough To Die’ album! What’s your favorite track?. 📸 by George DuBose. #ramones.#Johnnyramone.#Johnnyramonearmy
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“Dee Dee was a very unique character, the most influential punk rock bassist. He set the standard that all punk rock bassists look to.“ Johnny Ramone. Remembering Dee Dee Ramone 9/18/1951 - 6/5/2002. #TheRamomes.#DeeDeeRamone.#JohnnyRamone
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Hey! Ho! Let’s Go! Did you ever see @RamonesOfficial live?. #johnnyramone .#ramones .#johnnramonearmy
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Legends never die. Remembering Johnny Ramone, 10/8/1948 - 9/15/2004. #JohnnyRamone.#Ramones.#JohnnyRamoneArmy
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The Johnny Ramone Army remembers Johnny’s pal @JoeStrummer on the 20th anniversary of his passing. Legends never die. 📸 Sam Jones. #JohnnyRamone.#JoeStrummer.#Ramones.#TheClash.#LegendsNeverDie.#Punk
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“If the Ramones had never existed and came out right now, we would still blow people away.” Johnny Ramone. Photo by David Tan. #JohnnyRamone.#Ramones.#JohnnyRamoneArmy
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“IT’S ALIVE is not just the best #Ramones album, it is easily the best live #punkrock album of all time.” -Amazon. #OnThisDay in '79, Ramones dropped IT’S ALIVE. The album was recorded at a 1977 New Year’s Eve show. Watch this performance of “Glad To See You Go” from the set.
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“I always thought that if I were doing something, I should be fully serious about it and do whatever I can to make it good. As the first album was being mixed and readied for release, we were still playing any show we could get.” Johnny Ramone in his autobiography COMMANDO. 📸
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In July of '76 @RamonesOfficial released #BlitzkriegBop as a first single, changing punk music and guitar playing forever. #KingoftheDownstroke #JohnnyRamone #Guitar #Punk
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"Some bands blow it before they even play. The most important moment of any show is when a band walks out with the red amp lights glowing, the flashlight that shows each performer the way to his spot on the stage. It's crucial not to blow it.“ Johnny Ramone. #JohnnyRamoneArmy
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“He was the most influential punk rock bassist of all time. No one else even comes close.” - Johnny Ramone. Happy Birthday, Dee Dee!. Photo by Danny Fields. #DeeDeeRamone.#JohnnyRamone.#JohnnyRamoneArmy.#Ramones
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Legends never die! Remembering Joey Ramone, 5/19/51-4/15/01 🖤. #Ramones.#JoeyRamone.#JohnnyRamone.#JohnnyRamoneArmy
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Happy Birthday to the greatest punk vocalist of all time: Joey Ramone. "I mean, as long as Joey was still there, there was always the feeling like […] I'm not doing anything without him. He's my partner. Me and him.” - Johnny Ramone, 2004. #JoeyRamone #JohnnyRamone #Ramones
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Legends never die! Remembering Dee Dee Ramone, 9/18/51-6/5/02 🖤. 📸 by Danny Fields. #Ramones.#DeeDeeRamone.#JohnnyRamone.#JohnnyRamoneArmy
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Hey! Ho Let’s Go! Check out Johnny gracing the cover of this month’s issue of @RollingStoneAr featuring @RamonesOfficial in its The 100 Greatest Live Records Ever!. #JohnnyRamone.#JohnnyRamoneArmy.#Ramones
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Happy Birthday, Joey Ramone! Legends Never Die!. #Ramones.#JoeyRamone.#HappyBirthdqy.#JohnnyRamone.#JohnnyRamoneArmy
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"A lot of kids bought guitars and started playing rock'n'roll because of us.” Johnny Ramone. #JohnnyRamone.#JohnnyRamoneArmy.#Ramones
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“The father of punk-rock guitar and a huge influence on riff-driven modern metal, Johnny Ramone is one of the instrument's great anti-heroes.” @RollingStone in naming Johnny in its 100 Greatest Guitarists. #JohnnyRamone.#Ramones.#JohnnyRamoneArmy
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“I bought my guitar at Manny’s, on Forty-eighth Street and Broadway, on January 23, 1974… I stuck it in a bag because I didn’t have enough for the case. Later I would be photographed carrying it in a shopping bag. I never planned that to be an image.” Johnny Ramone in his
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“We play rock’n���roll. We don’t do solos. Our only harmonies are in the overtones from the guitar chords” - Tommy Ramone. Remembering Tommy, 1/29/1949 - 7/11/2014. Legends never die. #TommyRamone.#JohnnyRamome.#Ramones.#JohnnyRamoneArmy
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Hey! Ho! Let’s Go! Smile, it’s the weekend! . 📸 by Roberta Bayley, 1976. #Ramones .#JohnnyRamone.#JohnnyRamoneArmy
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“I never liked long guitar solos and over-indulgence. Our songs just came from a space of pure rock influence. They had to be simple.” Johnny Ramone in his autobiography COMMANDO. #JohnnyRamoneArmy.#JohnnyRamone.#Ramones
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1, 2, 3, 4! Johnny rockin’ with @RamonesOfficial at the free outdoor concert at San Francisco Civic Center in 1979. 📸 by Chester Simpson. #JohnnyRamone.#JohnnyRamoneArmy.#Ramones
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Happy Birthday to legendary @TheClash guitarist and longtime friend of Johnny, Joe Strummer. #JohnnyRamone #TheClash #JoeStrummer #Ramones #Punk #PunkRock
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Johnny with his 1965 Mosrite Ventures II model guitar that he used at every @RamonesOfficial gig from November 1977 through to the band’s final concert in August of ’96. Johnny played the Mosrite at nearly 2,000 shows and also used it to record most of Ramones’ studio albums.
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“We weren’t liking any of the music and we just decided to start a group.” Johnny Ramone. #Ramones.#JohnnyRamone.#JohnnyRamoneArmy
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“I wanted to be in a group ever since I first saw rock and roll on television.” Johnny Ramone. #JohnnyRamone.#JohnnyRamoneArmy.#Ramones
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#OnThisDay in 1974, the @RamonesOfficial gave their debut public performance (& only second show ever) at the now-legendary #CBGB music club in NYC. Watch this clip from a month later when Johnny & the gang performed “I Don't Wanna Go Down To The Basement.” #Ramones #Punk
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Hey! Ho! Let’s Go! Happy Friday from the Johnny Ramone Army! What’s your favorite T-Shirt from Johnny’s wardrobe?. #JohnnyRamone .#Ramones.#JohnnyRamoneArmy
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“No one hated guitar solos more than Johnny Ramone, so it's not surprising he perfected the punk style, packing chords together tightly and leaving no space for freelancing.” - @TIME Magazine naming Johnny as one of “The 10 Greatest Electric-Guitar Players” of all-time.
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“I wrote the book on punk. I decide what’s punk. If I’m driving a Cadillac, it’s punk.” Johnny Ramone. #JohnnyRamone.#Ramones
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Hey! Ho! Let’s Go! Happy Easter from the Johnny Ramone Army 🐰🐣. Original illustration by John Holmstrom. #JohnnyRamone.#Ramones.#JohnnyRamoneArmy.#Easter
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“Nobody could play those bar chords like I played them." Johnny Ramone. #JohnnyRamone.#Ramones
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“We had the songs for the first three albums when we did the first one. We already had 30 to 35 songs, and we recorded them in the chronological order that we wrote them. I didn’t want the second album to be a letdown by picking through all the best songs for the first album and
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Ramones in color by the legendary photographer Bob Gruen in Forest Hills, NY. July 18, 1975. #Ramones.#JohnnyRamone.#JohnnyRamoneArmy
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“It was that power of the guitar: I walked out there knowing we were the best.” Johnny Ramone. #JohnnyRamone.#Ramones.#JohnnyRamoneArmy
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“Dee Dee was a punk. He had the look, he was a great songwriter. And he was the most influential punk rock bassist of all time. No one else even comes close.” - Johnny Ramone. Happy Birthday to legendary #Ramones bassist & band brother, Dee Dee Ramone. #DeeRamone #JohnnyRamone
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Hey! Ho! Let’s Go! On this day, April 23, 1976, Ramones released their self-titled debut album. Listen: . What’s your favorite track?. #Ramones.#JohnnyRamone.#JohnnyRamoneArmy
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Hey! Ho! Let’s Go! Happy birthday, Dee Dee Ramone!. “He set the standard that all punk rock bassists look to." Johnny Ramone. #Ramomes.#DeeDeeRamone.#JohnnyRamone
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“I like to play punk rock, and that’s it.” Johnny Ramone. 📸 by Gus Stewart. #JohnnyRamone.#Ramones.#JohnnyRamoneArmy
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Hey! Ho! Let’s Go into the weekend! . 📸 @RamonesOfficial by Danny Fields @ Randy’s Rodeo, San Antonio, Texas, 1977. #Ramones .#JohnnyRamone.#johnnyramonearmy
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Gabba Gabba Hey! Happy Halloween from the Johnny Ramone Army! 🎃. Johnny with Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, at Video Shack in 1985 👻. 📸 by Gary Gershoff. #JohnnyRamone.#JohnnyRamoneArmy.#Ramones.#Halloween .#Elvira
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On this day, Johnny Ramone married @lindaramone at City Hall in New York. “It was just me and Linda, and she brought a girlfriend. I paid five dollars for someone to take a photo of us, with Linda holding a plastic bouquet of flowers. Linda started walking away with the plastic
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“The Ramones never ever lost their image, their aura of being the ultimate underdog, the voice of the angry young man,” Arturo Vega, the band's longtime artistic director, told the New York Times. Photo by Chalkie Davies. #JohnnyRamone.#Ramones
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The Johnny Ramone Army wishes @MarkyRamone a very happy birthday!. #JohnnyRamoneArmy.#MarkyRamone.#Ramones.#JohnnyRamone
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Happy 70th birthday to Johnny’s pal, @JoeStrummer! Legends never die!. #JohnnyRamone.#Ramones.#JohnnyRamoneArmy .#JoeStrummer.#TheClash
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“Joey’s a member of the #Ramones. If someone did something to him I’d want to defend him. If someone throws something at him, I’d want to go get the person. I cared. So in that way, we were in it together.” - #JohnnyRamone. Happy Birthday to the legendary #JoeyRamone.
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“We wanted every kid to be able to identify with our image.” Johnny Ramone. #JohnnyRamone.#Ramones.#JohnnyRamoneArmy
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Gabba Gabba Hey! Happy Birthday, Joey Ramone! Legends never die!. #Ramones.#JohnnyRamone.#JoeyRamone.#JohnnyRamoneArmy
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“When we took the pictures for End of the Century, at first every photo was taken with our jackets on. Then someone said, ‘Let’s take some pictures with the jackets off.’ … The jackets were part of the Ramones… I never thought they’d use these photos.“ Johnny Ramone
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Happy Birthday, Johnny Ramone! Legends never die!. Wish Johnny a happy birthday and join in this year’s Tribute to Johnny Ramone by sharing your favorite memories of past Tribute events using the hashtag #JohnnyRamoneArmy. #Ramones.#JohnnyRamone
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Gobble Gobble Hey! The Johnny Ramone Army wishes everyone celebrating Thanksgiving a healthy & happy Holiday 🦃 . #JohnnyRamone.#Thanksgiving .#Ramones .#JohnnyRamoneArmy
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“We thought we were a normal rock band, but it soon became apparent we were a little off-kilter.” Johnny Ramone on @RamonesOfficial. #JohnnyRamone #JohnnyRamoneArmy.#Ramones .#Punk
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“I always had the amps on ten.” Johnny Ramone from his autobiography COMMANDO. #JohnnyRamone.#JohnnyRamoneArmy.#Ramones
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We love seeing this everywhere! Happy New Year from the Johnny Ramone Army! . #JohnnyRamone.#Ramones.#JohnnyRamoneArmy.#NewYearsEve2021
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“We weren’t liking any of the music and we just decided to start a group. We knew CBGB, which no one was playing at, and we just went down and asked if we could play and they said ‘Yeah’ and we just played there. We worked a lot, playing there regularly – more or less as much as
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“Legends Never Die”. Johnny with his pal Chris Cornell, remembered on this day by the Johnny Ramone Army. #johnnyramonearmy #chriscornell #ramones #johnnyramone
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1, 2, 3, 4! “The original New York punk rockers, the Ramones seemed to have everything: a look, a sound, an attitude, a killer sense of humor and an aesthetic that was so original that it shocked everyone who heard it.” Time Magazine. #Ramones.#JohnnyRamone.#JohnnyRamoneArmy
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Happy Birthday to Johnny’s pal, @JoeStrummer! Legends never die. 📸 by @lindaramone . #JohnnyRamone.#Ramones.#JohnnyRamoneArmy .#JoeStrummer.#TheClash
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“We’re not students, we’re Ramones.” Johnny Ramone, Rock ‘n’ Roll High School. #JohnnyRamone.#Ramones.#JohnnyRamoneArmy
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Gobble Gobble Hey! The Johnny Ramone Army wishes everyone a healthy & happy Thanksgiving 🦃. #JohnnyRamone.#Thanksgiving .#Ramones .#JohnnyRamoneArmy
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On this day, November 4th, 1977, ‘Rocket To Russia’, Johnny Ramone’s favorite @RamonesOfficial album, was released. “Grade: A+. This was the best Ramones album, with the classics on it.” Johnny on ‘Rocket to Russia’ in COMMANDO. Click here - - listen now
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Happy Birthday, #DeeDeeRamone. “Dee Dee was a unique character. His songs weren't like anything else, just crazy, crazy stuff.” - Johnny
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Hey! Ho! Let’s Go! It’s the first Friday of 2024, put on some @RamonesOfficial and start your weekend right!. #JohnnyRamone.#JohnnyRamoneArmy.#Ramones
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Johnny called Ramones’ New Year's Eve concert at The Rainbow in 1977, which was released as the album, ‘It's Alive’, “probably the best show that the Ramones ever did”. Start 2024 the right way and go here - - and ring it in with some @RamonesOfficial!
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“I wanted to be in a group ever since I first saw rock and roll on television.” Johnny Ramone. Photo by Chalkie Davies, 1977. #JohnnyRamone.#JohnnyRamoneArmy.#Ramones
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Gabba Gabba Hey! 20-20-24 hours to go until we get to see the back of this year! Bye-bye 2020!. Click here to start the countdown - Photo by Danny Fields. #JohnnyRamone.#Ramones
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