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 | | Dee Dee Ramone, born Douglas Colvin (September 18, 1952 - June 5, 2002) was a founding member of The Ramones, a heavily influential punk band in which he wrote or co-wrote most of their songs, including 53rd and 3rd, Commando, and Poison Heart. |
 | | Dee was born in London of a Welsh family, the surname deriving from the Welsh du ("fl"). |
 | | Dee was offered a readership in mathematics at Oxford in 1554, but he declined because he was dissatisfied with the emphasis that the English universities put upon rhetoric and grammar (which, together with logic, formed the academic trivium) over philosophy and science (the more advanced quadrivium, comprising arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy). |
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