Product Description

New softcover edition! Once seen as a punk joke, The Ramones eventually came to be taken seriously, influencing almost every garage rocker that succeeded them. The sad, exhilarating warts-and-all-rock bilgraphy tells the whole story of the band from Queens as a paradigm rock saga - a litany of drugs, fallings-out, financial catastrophes, inter-band rivalries, bad management and death.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #376794 in Books
• Published on: 2005-09-01
• Released on: 2005-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Customer Reviews

nothing really new
No real insight here. A lot of the quotes can be found elswhere. Pick up the End of the century dvd. Almost everything in there can be found in here.

Best so far - but could be better
I enjoyed the book, learned some things I didn't know about the group previously. One EXTREMELY annoying item for me was the author's neverending references to the group as "da bruddas". Man, once was enough but it's used over and over for no good reason. Anyway, the best one so far in spite of this.

Great Book About a Great group
This book gives you about all that you want to know about the Ramones. It follows their lives from birth to death and has good coverage of the changing drummers. I also recommend Dee Dee's "Rock Star" book but this book is a great overview of the whole band.