Fucking A This just sucks, watching your heros go down like this. First Joey, then Dee Dee, now Johnny. I remember being a kid bouncing around my bed room to their songs. I almost wish Joey and Johnny had died of a drugover dose, Dee dee actually did die of an OD. At least an OD takes you out faster than being eaten away slowly like this. Godspeed, Johnny I hope there is a place in heaven for Punk Rockers.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=638&ncid=579&e=3&u=/nm/200
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>>LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The guitarist with pioneering punk rock band the
>>Ramones is fighting a losing a battle with cancer in a Los Angeles hospital,
Rolling Stone magazine reported on its Web site on Tuesday.
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.
"Johnny's been a champ in confronting this, but at this point I think the
chances are slim," Marky Ramone said in the report. "John never smoked
cigarettes, he wasn't a heavy drinker and he was always into his health. It
just proves when cancer seeks a body to penetrate, it doesn't matter how
healthy you are or how unhealthy you are. It just seeps in and there's nothing
you can do."
The Ramones, famed for playing their high-energy, unpolished songs at breakneck
speed, rose to fame in New York City in 1974, paving the way for such British
punk rock icons as the Sex Pistols and the Clash.
The band made its mark with such tunes as "Blitzkrieg Bop," "Now I Wanna Sniff
Some Glue" and "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker," but it never achieved the same
commercial success as acts that followed in its path. The Ramones officially
retired in 1996.
The band's singer, Joey Ramone (ne Jeff Hyman), died in 2001 of lymphatic
cancer, while bassist Dee Dee Ramone (Douglas Colvin) died from a drug overdose
the following year.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=638&ncid=579&e=3&u=/nm/200
40616/en_nm/people_ramones_dc
>>LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The guitarist with pioneering punk rock band the
>>Ramones is fighting a losing a battle with cancer in a Los Angeles hospital,
Rolling Stone magazine reported on its Web site on Tuesday.
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.
"Johnny's been a champ in confronting this, but at this point I think the
chances are slim," Marky Ramone said in the report. "John never smoked
cigarettes, he wasn't a heavy drinker and he was always into his health. It
just proves when cancer seeks a body to penetrate, it doesn't matter how
healthy you are or how unhealthy you are. It just seeps in and there's nothing
you can do."
The Ramones, famed for playing their high-energy, unpolished songs at breakneck
speed, rose to fame in New York City in 1974, paving the way for such British
punk rock icons as the Sex Pistols and the Clash.
The band made its mark with such tunes as "Blitzkrieg Bop," "Now I Wanna Sniff
Some Glue" and "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker," but it never achieved the same
commercial success as acts that followed in its path. The Ramones officially
retired in 1996.
The band's singer, Joey Ramone (ne Jeff Hyman), died in 2001 of lymphatic
cancer, while bassist Dee Dee Ramone (Douglas Colvin) died from a drug overdose
the following year.
