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	Johnny Ramone
		Johnny and the Ramones continued to crank out albums throughout the '80s and the first half of the '90s, with varying degrees of success and with a revolving door of bandmembers — Johnny and Joey were the only two constant members.
		Although Johnny kept a low profile after the group's breakup, there were always rumors and hints going around of a possible reunion, but on April 15, 2001, those dreams were permanently extinguished when Joey Ramone died in a N.Y.C. hospital, after an extended battle with cancer.
		In June of 2004, Johnny was admitted to a Los Angeles hospital for an infection related to prostate cancer, an event that made the news and revealed his condition to the world at large.
	www.hotguitarist.com /music_artists/johnny_ramone.htm (578 words)

	Johnny Ramone: Rebel in a rebel's world - The Washington Times: Entertainment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Johnny dropped his job as a construction worker in 1974 and held down stage right for 22 years as the guitarist for the most influential rock band of the last 30 years.
		Johnny Ramone was a fiercely Republican-voting, NRA-supporting musician in a milieu that is remarkable for its embrace of all things left.
		Johnny Ramone is at an easy point in his life, where "Blitzkrieg Bop" can be heard at sporting events as rev music and where the Ramones are widely cited as one of the most influential bands in the history of rock 'n' roll.
	www.washingtontimes.com /entertainment/20040311-085521-1823r.htm (1437 words)

	Johnny Ramone (1948 - 2004)
		Johnny Ramone, who died aged 55, was the lead guitarist with The Ramones, the American band that was the chief influence on the development of punk rock.
		Johnny Ramone was born John cummings, the only child of a construction worker of Irish descent, on Long Island on October 8 1948.
		Johnny Ramone revealed his political affiliation, somewhat unexpectedly, in 2002 when the group was being inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame.
	johnny-ramone.memory-of.com (914 words)

	Johnny Ramone, famed punker, dies - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		Johnny Ramone was one of the original members of the struggling Ramones, whose hit songs "I wanna be sedated" and "Blitzkrieg Bop," among others, earned them an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002.
		Johnny Ramone co-founded "The Ramones" in 1974 in New York along with singer Joey Ramone, bassist DeeDee Ramone and drummer Tommy Ramone, who is the only surviving member of the original band.
		Johnny Ramone changed that by demanding more money for performances, but still kept a close watch on the band's budget; Vega recalled how Johnny Ramone would insist that the band drive nonstop between Boston and New York for shows instead of spending the night in a hotel.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/national/s_252062.html (665 words)

	Johnny Ramone - Hail Johnny Ramone - Ramonesmania.com
		Johnny cared about the people he may have not paid enough attention to during his life and he cared about anybody he might have inadvertently hurt along the way to creating music history.
		Johnny would hate for his legacy to be ''whitewashed,'' a word he used when he read or heard something that glossed over the bad or negative aspects of an issue.
		Johnny departs as the purveyor of what is the most important musical movement of the 20th century, punk rock.
	www.ramonesmania.com /johnny-ramone.htm (1367 words)

	PUNK: Johnny Ramone 1948-2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Johnny got a bad rap for being a "bad musician." Thing is, he approached rock and roll in a totally different way than previous musicians and deserves credit for reinventing the electric guitar - and creating the punk sound.
		Johnny asked me to recommend a commercial artist (who turned down the job), then it bounced around between a few more illustrators and then Johnny turned to me, because no one else understood what he wanted.
		Johnny got a bad rap for taking himself too seriously - as if he was some humorless jerk because he never smiled for the cameras.
	www.punkmagazine.com /morestuff/johnny_ramone.html (1404 words)

	Rolling Stone : Johnny's Last Stand
		CHARLES M. Moderately sized and immoderately pink, Johnny Ramone's ranch house sits high in the Hollywood Hills, guarded by a regiment of cactus and a stuffed, snarling wild boar.
		And we talked about the Ramones finally receiving the recognition they deserved with their 2002 induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and how Joey Ramone had died the year before of lymphoma, and how bassist Dee Dee Ramone died a few months later of an overdose.
		Johnny was born John Cummings in Queens, New York, in 1948 (not 1951, as the official bios state), to a construction-worker father and a waitress mother.
	www.rollingstone.com /news/story/6485108/johnnys_last_stand (2591 words)

	Johnny Ramone, Rock-and-Roll Innovator, Dies (washingtonpost.com)
		Johnny Ramone, 55, a guitarist and founding member of the Ramones, the seminal New York rock-and-roll band that practically defined the punk movement of the 1970s, died Sept. 15 of prostate cancer at his home in Los Angeles.
		Johnny Ramone is the third member of the original group to die in the past three years.
		Joey Ramone died of lymphoma in 2001, and Dee Dee Ramone died of a heroin overdose in 2002.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A27587-2004Sep16.html (1169 words)

	Metroactive Music \| Johnny Ramone
		The following day, Johnny's publicist released a statement downplaying the urgency of Johnny's condition, while confirming that Johnny was indeed in the hospital receiving treatment for an infection related to prostate cancer and that he was expected to be released the following week to continue his recovery.
		A vehement Reagan lover, Johnny insisted that the band change the title of their Joey-penned, Reagan-knocking 1985 single "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg" to "My Head Is Hanging Upside Down" for its album release; the song only joined the Ramones' canon in the first place because a band is a democracy, and Johnny was outvoted.
		According to the Ramones' self-designated roles, Joey was the gangly space alien with a heart of gold; Dee Dee was somehow both the cute one and the drug-addled, tortured-genius one; Tommy, as the drummer and the shortest in stature, was a much-needed force of normalization.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/07.07.04/ramone-0428.html (703 words)

	Rolling Stone : Johnny Ramone Dead
		Johnny Ramone died in his sleep yesterday afternoon (September 15th) after a five-year fight with prostate cancer; the Ramones guitarist and leader was fifty-five.
		Ramone (born John Cummings) kept his sickness private for four years, and news of it only became public in June when he lapsed into a coma for a week and was hospitalized.
		Underappreciated in their time, the Ramones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002 and have enjoyed something of a retroactive renaissance as musicians from U2's Bono to shock rocker Rob Zombie stepped forward to herald the band's influence.
	www.rollingstone.com /news/story/6485034/johnny_ramone_dead (607 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Music \| Punk guitarist Johnny Ramone dies
		Johnny Ramone is the third member of the band to die in the past few years, leaving Tommy Ramone as the only surviving member of the original line-up.
		Johnny was reputed to be the dislikeable one, the bully, the tough nut.
		Johnny Ramone was one quarter of one of the finest, influential and innovative bands the world has ever seen.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/music/3661434.stm (2887 words)

	Gothamist: Johnny Ramone Dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Johnny Ramone died last night at age 55 in L.A., after a struggle with prostate cancer.
		Johnny, born John Cummings, co-founded the Queens band with Joey Ramone in 1974 and the Ramones brought punk to NYC.
		The Ramones were boys from Queens, and there was an NPR piece about John Langford going to Queens to find Joey's ghost.
	www.gothamist.com /archives/2004/09/16/johnny_ramone_dies.php (480 words)

	Johnny Ramone: 1948–2004 on Blender.com
		Johnny was the guitarist and cofounder of the legendary New York punk band the Ramones, who turned rock & roll on its head in 1976 with their self-titled debut album.
		Johnny and Tommy Ramone were the last two living members of the band's original configuration.
		Johnny passed away in his sleep Wednesday evening surrounded by his wife, close friends and the band's artistic director, Arturo Vega (who created the famous Ramones logo).
	www.blender.com /guide/articles.aspx?id=1069 (335 words)

	Punk legend Johnny Ramone dies \| \| Guardian Unlimited Arts
		Photograph: Kathy Willens/AP Johnny Ramone, the co-founder of seminal punk band the Ramones, has died at the age of 55, it was announced today.
		Ramone, whose real name was John Cummings, founded the band with the three other original members - singer Joey Ramone, bassist Dee Dee Ramone and drummer Tommy Ramone - in 1974.
		Johnny Ramone, however, kept a close watch on the band's budget, with Vega recalling that he would insist they drove non-stop between Boston and New York for shows rather than spending the night in a hotel.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /news/story/0,11711,1305793,00.html (699 words)

	Johnny Ramone (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Johnny Ramone's gravesite marker at the [[Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Southern California.]] The Ramones song "The KKK Took My Baby Away" was written by Joey Ramone after his then-girlfriend, Linda, left him for Johnny.
		Johnny Ramone refused to call his former bandmate Joey, even when Joey was dying of cancer.
		Johnny was noted for his cool, reserved attitude that he kept at (mostly) all times.
	johnny-ramone.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (382 words)

	USATODAY.com - Johnny Ramone dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Johnny Ramone, seen here at the 2002 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, fought prostate cancer for five years.
		Johnny Ramone, who anchored the three-man/three-chord front line of arguably the most influential rock band of the past three decades, died Wednesday after a long battle with prostate cancer.
		Although The Ramones never had a hit single or top 40 album and were overshadowed as punk innovators by later groups such as the Sex Pistols, they stuck it out for 22 grueling years.
	www.usatoday.com /life/people/2004-09-15-johnny-ramone-obit_x.htm (476 words)

	Tbt: Johnny Ramone: loud, fast, beloved
		Johnny Ramone, guitarist for the legendary punk band The Ramones, died Sept. 15.
		Once accused of playing songs that were too short, Johnny Ramone, not known for being a big talker, famously quipped, "They're not too short, we just play 'em real fast." Indeed, most Ramones songs clock in at under 2 1/2 minutes.
		The Ramones were, William McKeen says, "Rock 'n' roll babies." McKeen, editor of Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay: An Anthology, says the Ramones have had such a lasting impact because of the glee in the band's music.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/09/24/Tbt/Johnny_Ramone__loud__.shtml (715 words)

	Johnny Ramone - Biography - AOL Music
		But a large part of the Ramones experience was the group's explosive stage show, their maniacal energy and straight-ahead approach while ripping through almost 30 songs a set (as witnessed by their stellar 1979 live album, It's Alive) was infectious.
		Johnny and the Ramones continued to crank out albums throughout the '80s and the first half of the '90s, with varying degrees of success and with a revolving door of bandmembers -- Johnny and Joey were the only two constant members.
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	music.aol.com /artist/johnny-ramone/116833/biography (567 words)

	HAIL JOHNNY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Johnny passed away on Wednesday, September 15 at 3:03 pm at his home in Los Angeles, California.
		Johnny contributed in many ways to the success and greatness of the Ramones.
		Johnny’s strength came from his character, rich in decency and honesty.
	www.officialramones.com /hailjohnny/index.html (156 words)

	RIP Johnny Ramone - Ernie Ball Forums
		Johnny Ramone, of 'The Ramones,' Dies at 55
		Ramone, born John Cummings, was one of the original members of the Ramones, whose hit songs "I Wanna be sedated" and "Blitzkrieg Bop," among others, earned the band induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002.
		Johnny Ramone founded "The Ramones" in 1974 with Joey Ramone, DeeDee Ramone and Tommy Ramone, the only surviving member of the original band.
	www.ernieball.com /forums/showthread.php?t=4284 (384 words)

	Johnny Ramone hospitalized - MUSIC - MSNBC.com
		LOS ANGELES - Johnny Ramone, guitarist for the legendary punk band The Ramones, was hospitalized with an infection related to prostate cancer, his publicist said Thursday.
		Johnny Ramone was one of the original four members of the Ramones, whose memorable three-chord anthems like “I Wanna Be Sedated” and “Blitzkrieg Bop” landed them in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002.
		Johnny Ramone, 55, whose real name is John Cummings, was diagnosed with prostate cancer four years ago, and it has now spread throughout his body, Rollingstone.com quoted the band’s drummer, Marky Ramone, as saying.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5218974 (710 words)

	JOHNNY RAMONE DEAD
		LOS ANGELES - Johnny Ramone, guitarist and co-founder of the seminal punk band "The Ramones" that influenced a generation of rockers, has died.
		Ramone, who had been fighting a five-year battle with prostate cancer, died in his sleep Wednesday afternoon at his Los Angeles home surrounded by friends and family, said the band's longtime artistic director Arturo Vega.
		Ramone, whose birth name is John Cummings, had been hospitalized in June at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
	www.webspawner.com /users/calidude116 (655 words)

	Rhino -- Johnny Ramone (1948-2004) - Rzine #342
		By all accounts, Johnny was the taskmaster of the Ramones, and his dedication to the band (and its fans) was a primary reason for both its consistent sound and its success.
		Johnny was a kindred spirit (and was conveniently located in Southern California), so we often relied upon him as we began reissuing the Ramones catalog.
		Johnny ramone is so damn hardcore, he is a exelent guitarist, and for that matter a great person.
	www.rhino.com /RZine/StoryKeeper.lasso?StoryID=342 (2167 words)

	Metroactive Music \| Johnny Ramone
		On June 16, former Ramones drummer Marky Ramone announced via an interview with RollingStone.com that ex-band mate Johnny Ramone's health was in decline after a five-year tussle with prostate cancer.
		Unlike the rest of the group, however, Johnny was always a bit of an old fogey, and it's this quality that held the Ramones together for two-plus decades.
		A vehement Reagan lover, Johnny insisted that the Ramones' retitle their Joey-penned, Reagan-knocking 1985 single, "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg," as "My Head Is Hanging Upside Down" for its album release; the song only joined the Ramones' canon because a band is a democracy, and Johnny was outvoted.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/cruz/09.22.04/ramone-0439.html (592 words)

	MTV News \| Kurt Loder Remembers Johnny Ramone
		I remember riding down in an elevator with Johnny Ramone, somewhere back in the late '70s, and figuring this would be a good chance to ask him a question.
		Johnny was a glowery sort of guy — "standoffish" didn't really capture his air of frosty disengagement — and I suspected he wasn't the type of fellow human who welcomed random small talk or chatty interaction.
		Even more annoying than the belief, common in snootier musical circles, that the Ramones were wrong-side-of-the-bridge simpletons was the related aspersion that they were a three-chord junk-rock band with little — make that nothing — in the way of redeeming musical value.
	www.mtv.com /news/articles/1491011/20040916/ramones.jhtml (946 words)

	RAMONES NEWS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Johnny was one of the first and most enthusiastic skateboarders in the neighborhood.
		To say that Johnny was the most influential person in my life would be an understatement.
		CJ Ramone, John Frusciante, Steve Jones and Joe Sib, whose label Sideonedummy Records is very much the present of punk.
	www.ramones.com /news_johnnystatue.html (873 words)

	Johnny Ramone dead at 55 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Johnny (born John Cummings) is the third member of the band to die since 2001.
		Joey Ramone (Jeff Hyman) died of cancer in 2001 and Dee Dee Ramone (Douglas Colvin) died of a drug overdose in 2002.
		In June this year, serious reports started to surface as to the health of Johnny Ramone after he was admitted to Cedar-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
	www.undercover.com.au /news/2004/sept04/20040916_ramones.html (258 words)

	Obituary: Johnny Ramone Independent, The (London) - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Johnny Ramone was born John Cummings in Long Island, New York, in 1948.
		Back in 1976, the Ramones found a ready audience in the UK when they supported their Sire labelmates the Flamin' Groovies for a Fourth of July bicentennial concert at the Roundhouse in London.
		The Roundhouse appearance by the Ramones cemented their status as spearheads of the punk movement, Johnny famously encouraging the Clash and the Sex Pistols to follow in their footsteps.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_200409/ai_n12808856 (840 words)

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