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 ...

There was a time when The Ramones’ punk rock music was too scary for commercial radio. The group’s highest-charting single, “Rockaway Beach,” peaked at No. 66 in 1977. Only two of its albums, 1977’s ...

True to the raw, anarchic spirit of punk-rock, the Ramones played as dirty as those notoriously filthy CBGB bathrooms when they got a spontaneous offer from their first manager at the holy underground ...

(Reuters) - Tommy Ramone, the drummer and last surviving original member of the American punk band the Ramones, whose aggressive and fast-driving songs spearheaded the punk-rock movement, has died at ...

Who’da thunk they’d all be dead, but their music would live on? Certainly not anybody who came across the Ramones’ debut in the bins back in ’76, with its black-and-white cover and music so contrary ...

In 1984, The Ramones – clearly feeling, with punk rock’s popularity waning, that the peak of its popular had passed – released the album “Too Tough to Die,” the first with new drummer Richie Ramone.

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 ...

The Ramones were, among other things, the harbingers of punk rock in America and beyond. Throughout their career, they played more than 2,000 live shows. A few short years after their final gig in L.A ...

I found it interesting to learn from this DVD that the Ramones’ name was inspired by Paul McCartney, who used to go by the handle “Paul Ramone” during The Beatles’ early, pre-stardom days. Especially ...

Along with Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas” and Paul McCartney’s “Yesterday,” this is one of the most covered songs of all time, so ubiquitous, with more than 30,000 versions over the decades, that ...