[SpookBrat]

Didn't Joey Ramone die last year? I thought I read that some where.

[fineright]

Joey had alot of money in the market. He dug it, too.

[Rick_Hunter]

Didn't Joey Ramone die last year? I thought I read that some where.

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Yes, he passed away from cancer. It bummed me out, especially because I wasn't even aware that he was ill.

Oh yeah, here's the story behind their "Bonzo Goes To Bitburg" song, from the Ramones Anthology book:

Dee Dee responded to President Ronald Reagan's 1985 state visit to Bitburg, a German cemetary containing the graves of Nazi storm troopers, with locomotive outrage in "Bonzo Goes To Bitburg," written and issued as a British single shortly after the event. The song was a striking reversal of Dee Dee's earlier flirtations with totalitarian imagery and comic-Nazi cracks, like "I'm a shock trooper in a stupor...I'm a Nazi schatze" ("Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World"). Ironically, Johnny, a loyal Republican, objected to "Bonzo": "I thought Ronald Reagan was the best President of our lifetime." As a compromise, the song was retitled for Animal Boy with a line from the chorus, "My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down"; the "Bonzo" part went into parentheses.

[weegee]

Joy died almost a year ago (at Easter, bookended by Ed Roth and Brother Theodore's deaths).

The Ramones got inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame today.