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Infobox musical artist| name = Joey Ramone| image = Joeyramone.jpg| caption = Joey Ramone circa 1980| background = solo_singer| birth_name = Jeffry Ross Hyman| alias = Joey Ramone| birth_date = birth date|1951|5|19| birth_place = Forest Hills, Queens|Forest Hills , New York City|New York , United States| death_date = Death date and age|mf=yes|2001|4|15|1951|5|19| death_place = New York, New York, United States| instrument = Singing|Vocals , Drum kit|drums , Percussion instrument|percussion , guitar | genre = Punk rock | occupation = Musician , songwriter | years_active = 1972–2001| label = Sire Records|Sire , Radioactive Records|Radioactive | associated_acts = Ramones , Sibling Rivalry, Sniper (American band) | website = http://joeyramone.com/ joeyramone.com Joey Ramone (May 19, 1951& nbsp;– April 15, 2001) was an American musician, Singing|vocalist and songwriter , best known as the lead vocalist of the punk rock band the Ramones . Joey Ramone's image, voice and tenure as front man of the Ramones made him a countercultural icon.Allmusic|class=artist|id=p116764|label=Joey Ramone|first=Steve|last=Huey|accessdate=July 27, 2011
Biography
Early life
Born Jeffry Ross Hyman to parents Noel and Charlotte Hyman, he was raised in the Jewish tradition.cite web|url= http://www.adherents.com/people/pr/Joey_Ramone.html |title=The Religious Affiliation of Rock Musician Joey Ramone of The Ramones |publisher=Adherents.com |date=November 23, 2005 |accessdate=2011-07-27 They lived in Forest Hills, Queens, New York ,cite news|last=Powers|first=Ann. |url= http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/16/arts/joey-ramone-punk-s-influential-yelper-dies-at-49.html |title=Joey Ramone, Punk's Influential Yelper, Dies at 49|work= The New York Times |date=April 16, 2001|accessdate=June 2, 2009. |quote=Born Jeffry Hyman in Forest Hills, Queens, Mr. Ramone grew up a sensitive outcast in a bohemian family. where Jeffry and his future Ramones bandmates attended Forest Hills High School . Jeffry was happy but something of an outcastCitation needed|date=April 2012. When he was 18 years old he was diagnosed with OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder). He grew up with brother Mickey Leigh and stepbrother John. His mother divorced and remarried three times.
Jeffry was a fan of The Beatles ,cite news|url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/1279856.stm |title=The musical misfits |publisher=BBC News |date=April 16, 2001 |accessdate=2011-07-27 The Who , David Bowie and The Stooges among other bands (particularly oldies and the Phil Spector -produced " girl group s"). His idol was Pete Townshend of The Who (with whom he shared a birthday). Jeffry took up drums at 13, and played throughout his teen years. Before he joined the Ramones, he was the singer in a band called Snipers.
Sniper
In 1972 Hyman joined the glam punk band, Sniper (American band)|Sniper . Sniper played at the Mercer Arts Center , Max's Kansas City and the Coventry, alongside the New York Dolls , Suicide , and Jayne County|Queen Elizabeth III . cite book |title=Please Kill Me: The Uncensored History of Punk |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors=Legs McNeil, John Holstrom |year=1997 |publisher=Penguin |location= |isbn=0-14-026690-9 |page= |pages= |url= |accessdate=April 1, 2012 Hyman played with Sniper under the name Jeff Starship.cite book |title=I Slept with Joey Ramone |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors=Mickey Leigh, Legs McNeil |year=2009 |publisher= Touchstone|location= |isbn=0-7432-5216-0 |page= |pages= |url= |accessdate= Mickey Leigh: "I was shocked when the band came out. Joey was the lead singer and I couldn't believe how good he was. Because he'd been sitting in my house with my acoustic guitar, writing these songs like 'I Don't Care', fucking up my guitar, and suddenly he's this guy on stage who you can't take your eyes off of." He continued playing with Sniper until early 1974, when he was replaced by Alan Turner.
Ramones
In 1974, Jeffry Hyman co-founded the punk rock band the Ramones with friends Johnny Ramone|John Cummings and Dee Dee Ramone|Douglas Colvin , upon which point all three adopted stage name s using "Ramone" as their surname: Cummings became Johnny Ramone, Colvin became Dee Dee Ramone, and Hyman became Joey Ramone. The name Ramone stems from a story that Paul McCartney of The Beatles would check into hotels under the pseudonym "Paul Ramon" while touring.
Joey initially served as the group's drummer while Dee Dee Ramone was the original vocalist. Ramones manager Tommy Ramone|Tommy Erdelyi suggested Joey switch to vocals while Tommy took over on drums.
The Ramones were a major influence on the punk rock movement in the United States, though they achieved only minor commercial success. Their only record with enough U.S. sales to be certified gold was the compilation album Ramones Mania . Recognition of the band's importance built over the years, and they are now regularly represented in many assessments of all-time great rock music, such as the Rolling Stone lists of the 50 Greatest Artists of All Time and 25 Greatest Live Albums of All Time, VH1 's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock, and Mojo's 100 Greatest Albums. In 2002, the Ramones were voted the second greatest rock and roll band ever in Spin (magazine)|Spin , trailing only The Beatles .
In 1996, after a tour with the Lollapalooza music festival, the band played their final show and then disbanded. Within eight years of the breakup, the band's three founding members – Joey, Johnny, and Dee Dee – had all died.
Vocal style
Ramone's vocal style was unorthodox in that he had no formal training in an era where vocal proficiency was arguably the norm for most rock bands. His signature cracks, hiccups, snarls, crooning and youthful voice made his one of punk rock's most recognizable voices. Allmusic.com claims that "Joey Ramone's signature bleat was the voice of punk rock in America." As his vocals matured and deepened through his career, so did the Ramones' songwriting, leaving a notable difference from Joey's initial melodic and callow style—two notable tracks serving as examples are " Somebody Put Something in My Drink " and "Mama's Boy".
Other projects
In 1985, Ramone joined Little Steven Van Zandt 's music-industry activist group Artists United Against Apartheid which acted against the Sun City, North West|Sun City resort in South Africa . Ramone and forty-nine other top recording artists, including Bruce Springsteen , U2 , Bob Dylan and Run DMC , collaborated on the song " Sun City (song)|Sun City " in which they pledged they would never perform at the resort.
In 1994, Ramone appeared on the Helen Love album Love and Glitter, Hot Days and Music singing the track "Punk Boy". Helen Love returned the favor, singing on Ramone's song " Mr. Punchy ".
In October 1996 Ramone headlined the "Rock The Reservation" cite web|last=Kaufman |first=Gil |url= http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/508440/19961022/story.jhtml|title=Joey Ramone Rocks The Reservation alternative rock festival in Tuba City, Arizona. 'Joey Ramone & the Resistance' (Daniel Rey on guitar, John Connor on bass guitar and Roger Murdock on drums) debuted Ramone's interpretation of Louis Armstrong's "Wonderful World' live, and as well as Ramone's choice of Ramones classics and some of his favorite bands and songs; The Dave Clark Five's "Any Way You Want It", The Who's "The Kids are Alright and The Stooges' "No Fun."
Ramone co-wrote and recorded the song " Meatball Sandwich (single)|Meatball Sandwich " with Youth Gone Mad . For a short time before his death, he took the role of manager and producer for the punk rock group The Independents (band)|The Independents .cite web|url= http://www.theindependents.net/bandbio.htm |title=Band Biography |publisher=The Independents |date=2001-04-15 |accessdate=2011-07-27
His last recording as a vocalist was singing backup vocals on the CD One Nation Under by the Dine Navajo rock group Blackfire (band)|Blackfire . He appeared on two tracks, "What Do You See" and "Lying to Myself". The CD, released in 2002, won "Best Pop/Rock Album of the Year" at the 2002 Native American Music Awards. http://www.blackfire.net/index2.shtml Blackfire.netdead link|date=July 2011
Ramone also produced the Ronnie Spector album, She Talks to Rainbows , in 1999. It was critically acclaimed, but did not perform too well with the public and went virtually unnoticed. The title track was previously on the Ramones ' last studio album, ˇAdios Amigos! .
Death and influence
His solo album '' Don't Worry About Me was released posthumously in 2002, and features the single " What a Wonderful World ", a cover of the Louis Armstrong standard. MTV|MTV News claimed: "With his trademark rose-colored shades, black leather jacket, shoulder-length hair, ripped jeans and alternately snarling and crooning vocals, Joey was the iconic godfather of punk."cite web|last=Kaufman |first=Gil |url= http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1442817/20010415/story.jhtml |title=Punk Pioneer Joey Ramone Dead At 49 |publisher=MTV |date=April 15, 2001 |accessdate=2011-07-27
On November 30, 2003, a block of East 2nd Street in New York City was officially renamed Joey Ramone Place.cite web|url= http://kauhajokinyt.fi/~jplaitio/members/joeyramoneplace.html |title= http://kauhajokinyt.fi/~jplaitio/members/joeyramoneplace.html |publisher=ramones.kauhajoki.fi |date= |accessdate=2011-07-27 It is the block where Hyman once lived with bandmate Dee Dee Ramone , and is near the former site of the music club CBGB , where the Ramones got their start. Hyman's birthday is celebrated annually by rock 'n' roll nightclubs, hosted in New York City by his brother and, until 2007, his mother, Charlotte. Joey Ramone was interred at Hillside Cemetery, Lyndhurst|Hillside Cemetery in Lyndhurst, New Jersey .cite news|first=|last=|authorlink=|coauthors=|title=Sometimes the Grave Is a Fine and Public Place|url=|quote=But there are a slew of other places around New Jersey with their own pantheons. Consider the eclectic group at rest in Hillside Cemetery in Lyndhurst: the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet William Carlos Williams and both founders of the former industrial giant Becton-Dickinson, Maxwell Becton and Fairleigh Dickinson, for whom the New Jersey university is named. Three years ago, they were joined by the seminal punk rocker Joey Ramone, whose birth name was Jeffry Hyman.| publisher=New York Times|date=March 28, 2004| accessdate=2007-08-21
In 2001, when Joey Ramone died, the Ramones were named as inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame , prior to the actual ceremony held early the following year.
Several songs have been presented as a tribute to Joey Ramone, including "Hello Joe" by Blondie (band)|Blondie from the album The Curse of Blondie , "Don't Take Me For Granted" by Social Distortion and "Here's To You" by Minus3, "You Can't Kill Joey Ramone" by Sloppy Seconds and Joey , by Raimundos . In addition, surviving Ramones Tommy, CJ Ramone|CJ and Marky Ramone|Marky and Daniel Rey came together in 2002 to record Jed Davis 's Joey Ramone tribute, "The Bowery Electric".cite web|title=The Bowery Electric Crew|url= http://ramonesworld.com/bowery/index.html|publisher=RamonesWorld|accessdate=22 April 2012
In September 2010, the Associated Press reported that "Joey Ramone Place," a sign at the corner of Bowery and East Second Street was New York City's most stolen sign. As of September 27, the sign has been moved to 20 feet above ground level. Drummer Marky Ramone thought Joey would appreciate the fact that his sign would be the most stolen adding "Now you have to be an NBA player to see it."cite news|url= http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/39383380/ns/today-entertainment/? gt1=43001 |title=What's New York's most-stolen street sign? |publisher=TODAY |date=September 27, 2010 |agency=Associated Press |accessdate=2011-07-27
After several years in development, Ramone's second posthumous album was released on May 22, 2012. Titled Ya Know? , it was preceded on Record Store Day by a 7" single re-release of Blitzkrieg Bop/Havana Affair cite web|url= http://kauhajokinyt.fi/~jplaitio/gigs/joeyramoneyaknow.html |title=Ramones: Joey Ramone'S Second Solo Album Titled ...Ya Know? |publisher=Kauhajokinyt.fi |date= |accessdate=2012-04-27
Discography
for|Ramones albums|Ramones discography
Solo
'' Don't Worry About Me (2002)
Ya Know? (2012)
EPs
In a Family Way – Sibling Rivalry (band)|Sibling Rivalry (1994)
Ramones: Leathers from New York – The Ramones and Joey Ramone (solo) (1997)
Christmas Spirit...In My House (2002)
Singles
"I Got You Babe" - (1982) (Duet with Holly Beth Vincent )
"What a Wonderful World" (2002)
"Rock And Roll Is The Answer" / "There's Got To Be More To Life" (2012)
Memorial books
cite book|title=Heaven Needed A Lead Singer: Fans Remember Joey Ramone|author=Jari-Pekka Laitio-Ramone|isbn=978-951-98965-0-2|year=2002|publisher=TMI Ramoniac
cite book|title=Rock In Peace: Dee Dee And Joey Ramone|author=Jari-Pekka Laitio-Ramone|isbn=978-951-98965-1-9|year=2004|publisher=(self published)
cite book|title=I Slept with Joey Ramone: A Family Memoir|author=Mickey Leigh|year=2009|isbn=978-0-7432-5216-4|publisher=Touchstone
References
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External links
commonscat|Joey Ramone
http://joeyramone.com/ The Official Joey Ramone Website
Monte A. Melnick, Ramones Tour Manager http://www.myspace.com/ontheroadwiththeramones "On The Road With The Ramones"
http://kauhajokinyt.fi/~jplaitio/ramones.html Joey's memorial section in Jari-Pekka Laitio-Ramone's site
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