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September 16, 2004

Too tough to die

Johnny Ramone loses cancer fight

“Johnny Ramone is the third member of the seminal band to die in the past few years, leaving Tommy Ramone as the only surviving member of the original line-up.

Singer Joey Ramone, whose real name was Jeff Hyman, died in 2001 from lymphatic cancer.

Bass player Dee Dee Ramone, real name Douglas Colvin, died of a drug overdose the following year. “

Update:

Johnny Ramone: The Times obituary

“Lou Reed’s dictum that “One chord is fine, two chords are pushing it, three chords and you’re into jazz” might well have been the maxim of Johnny Ramone, the guitarist of the band that invented punk rock. For more than 20 years, between the Ramones’ formation in 1974 and their final split in 1996, Johnny Ramone stood stage right, legs planted, eyes down, hammering out some of the most influential chord sequences of the late 20th century.”

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