HEY HO

LETS GO!
The Ramones and
the birth of punk

Four boys in love with Rock'n'Roll, with ideas so similar

that they even resembled each other in their appearance,
and that they chose a single artistic name.

Camilo Montaa
Sebastin Jimnez
Santiago Vsquez
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Introduction
Pioneers and leaders of the nascent punk, they laid the foundations of this musical genre with
simple, minimalist, repetitive compositions and very simple or even meaningless lyrics, in clear
opposition to the pomposity and lavishness of the bands that triumphed in the market of the years
1970, with his long guitar solos, the complex progressive rock songs and his enigmatic lyrics.
Their sound is characterized by being fast and direct, with influences from the rockabilly of the
1950s, surf rock, The Beatles, The Who, The Velvet Underground, the girl bands of the 60s like
The Shangri-Las and the proto-garage punk of MC5 and The Stooges.

General objective
Meet the punk rock band The Ramones in aspects such as history, its style, its image and its most
representative albums

Content
History ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2
Members ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3
Style --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5
Logo ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7
Albums ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8

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History
Ramones was a punk band formed in Forest Hills, in the district of Queens, New York, United
States, in 1974, and dissolved twenty-two years later, in 1996.
Performance Studio, in Manhattan was where they played their first concert, on March 30, 1974
before an audience of 30 people and with a repertoire composed only of other artists' versions. In
this concert the band was already known as Ramones, a name invented by Douglas. As of that
moment, all the members would carry the surname Ramone (the same one used by Paul
McCartney in the Silver Beetles period), so that the three members would be known as Joey
Ramone, Johnny Ramone and Dee Dee Ramone. This first concert was a disaster, caused mainly
by Dee Dee's inability to play and sing at the same time. As a solution, Dee Dee dedicated
himself only to the bass and Joey took over the position of singer.
1974 1979
On August 16, its official debut took place in a place called CBGB
His first concert outside of New York took place as support for Johnny Winter before
20,000 people in Waterbury, Connecticut, and it was a resounding disaster.
In December of that year they recorded a demo of 15 songs produced by Tommy, of
which seven would go to the first album and two to the second.
On February 2, 1976, the Ramones began to record their first album, Ramones, with the
label SireRecords, with a budget of 6,400 dollars, in contrast to the high budgets that the
big rock groups were spending.
1980 1989
After the band's debut in the film industry in the movie Rock 'n' Roll High School, the
legendary producer Phil Spector became interested in the band and produced his album
End of the Century in 1980, which rose to the position 44th in the United States, being the
record that was highest in the charts in the career of the band. However, the result did not
satisfy the group members, claiming differences between them and Spector.
In 1981, the quartet released the album Pleasant Dreams, which continued the path
established by End of the Century by presenting a much less aggressive punk than in the
first four albums.
In 1986, the Ramones were invited to record the soundtrack of the film Sid and Nancy,
which chronicles the last years of life of the bassist of the Sex Pistols Sid Vicious.
1990-1996
In 1991, Loco Live was released, an album recorded live in Barcelona, Spain, which
received bad reviews when compared to It's Alive.

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Later that year, the Ramones played six consecutive days with all the tickets sold at the
Obras Sanitarias stadium in Argentina and the group played "Spider-Man" (for the first
time) and "R.A.M.O.N.E.S." (an original song by Motrhead that composed Lemmy
Kilmister as a tribute to the New York quartet) live.
His last recital was on August 6, 1996, at The Palace, Los Angeles and his last album,
We're Outta Here, contains the recording of that concert.

Fun facts
Spector, producer of End of Century came to point Dee Dee with a gun to repeat a riff.
The relationship between Joey and Johnny reached the limit when Johnny "stole" Joey his
girlfriend, named Linda Danielle, to end up marrying her.
Johnny was a firm conservative, Joey considered himself a person of the left
Joey composed the song "The KKK Took My Baby Away" in reference to what happened
with his girlfriend and Johnny ("KKK" stands for the Ku Klux Klan, which highlights
Johnny's conservative tendencies).
Johnny Ramone was wounded in a fight and had to go through a delicate operation in
which his life came to be in danger
In January of 1990 Joey Ramone suffered an accident during a concert at the Ritz in New
York in which he suffered a torn cruciate ligament in his knee that forced him to maintain
six weeks of rest.
After her departure, Dee Dee began a brief and fruitless career as rapper under the name
of Dee Dee King,

Members
Joey Ramone
Real Name: Jeffrey Hyman
Singer
Birthdate: May 19, 1951
Country: United States of America

Joey was a member of this band from the

foundation until his death (1976-1996).
At first he played the drums, but the same
band members convinced him to do
something that really stood out, to sing. He
had a very particular voice, admired by great
singers who admit to being fans of him.
This celebrity had political thoughts of the left.
Onstage he remained static in his place during the entire
recital, putting his signature on that way of expressing his music.
His life ended on April 15, 2001, at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital, because of
lymphatic cancer that he maintained for some years, until finally the disease beat him.

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Johnny Ramone
Real Name: John Cummings
Guitar
Birthdate: October 8, 1948
Country: United States of America

He is known worldwide for having been the

guitarist of one of the first punk rock bands
called The Ramones.
In his adolescence he was a delinquent, he
seemed to have no clear direction in his life.
But despite everything he was a lover of the
rock of the 50's, which always motivated him to
approach music.
The Ramones stood out for its simple musical, the
sound of the guitar totally distorted, short tracks and at
a much higher speed than the rock songs of that time.
From the beginning of the band to the last concerts (which were in 1996)
Johnny always played with the same guitar, a model called Mosrite.
He had problems with the band's singer for much of his career, mainly because Johnny
married Joey's old girlfriend.
After 5 years of fighting against prostate cancer, Johnny died at his home in Los Angeles
on September 15, 2004 surrounded by some musicians friends of him.

Dee Dee Ramone

Real Name: Douglas Glenn
Bass
Birthdate: September 18, 1952
Country: United States of America

Dee Dee wrote several of the band's songs, such as:

"Blitzkrieg Bop", "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend", "I
Remember You", "Swallow My Pride" and "Sheena
Is a Punk Rocker", among others .
He was always recognized as the most energetic of
the Ramones on the stage, as well as being one of the
best composers, and the one who made the most
songs while in the band. Also when I was not already.
In 1989 he decided to step aside after recording the
album "Brain Drain".
Dee Dee had many problems in her personal life, she also
had Bipolar disorder and drug addiction.
His life ended on June 5, 2002 in Los Angeles, due to an overdose of
heroin.

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Tommy Ramones
Real Name: Tomas Erdelyi
Drums
Birthdate: January 29, 1952
Country: Hungary

His place as a drummer in the band lasted until

1978, after having played on 3 albums and
several live recitals, having achieved many
successes.
When he recorded his last studio album,
"Rocket to Russia", he decided to stop playing
the drums in the group, and for that reason they
decided that Marky should replace him.
But Tommy did not leave the band altogether, but
changed roles becoming the producer
As a group producer, he also worked with artists such as "The Replacements", "Redd
Kross", "The Rattlers" and "The Talking Heads".

Style

The image of the Ramones on stage complemented the theme of their songs and their concerts.
All the members of the band went to the concerts with leather jackets, ripped jeans, sneakers, t-
shirts and long hair, in honor of the rock stars of the 50s and showing that it was not necessary to
dress in an extravagant and luxurious way to play rock music. This fashion emphasized the
minimalism of his music, which was a great influence on the New York scene of the 70s. Tommy
Ramone stressed that, both musically and visually, "we were influenced by comics, the work of
Andy Warhol and avant-garde cinema."

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Leather
Jacket

Ripped Jeans

Sneakers

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Logo
The logo was designed by the Mexican Arturo Vega.
The logo was inspired by the presidential seal of the United States of America. The changes made
by Arturo to the logo were the following:
1. Instead of arrows the logo had a bat because Johnny was a baseball fan
2. Instead of an olive branch, an apple tree branch was placed because the ramones were as
American as Apple Pie
3. The ribbon that holds the eagle in its beak has the phrase that starts its legendary song
"Hey ho let's go"
4. Where SEAL of the PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES was originally read, the
names of the four members of the band were placed

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Albums

Ramones is the group's first album.

In the disc it presents / displays the first currents of
this musical sort, besides appreciating influences of
groups pertaining to the British Invasion (English
groups that triumphed in EE. In the decade of 1960).
Blitzkrieg Bop
I Wanna Be you Boyfriend

Rocket to Russia is the group's third

studio album.
It was released by Sire Records on November 4,
1977. The album incorporates surf music and other
influences
Sheena is a Punk Rocker
Do You Wanna Dance?

Road to Ruin is the group's fourth studio

album.
It was released to the market on September 21, 1978,
by Sire Records. This is the first album which has the
participation of drummer Marky Ramone replacing
founding member Tommy Ramone.
I Wanna Be Sedated
I Wanted Everything

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Blitzkrieg Bop
Hey ho, let's go
Hey ho, let's go
Hey ho, let's go
They're forming in a straight line
They're going through a tight wind
The kids are losing their minds
Blitzkrieg Bop
They're piling in the back seat
They generate steam heat
Pulsatin' to the back beat
Blitzkrieg Bop
Hey ho, let's go
Shoot them in the back now
What they want, I don't know
They're all revved up and ready to go
They're forming in a straight line
They're going through a tight wind
The kids are losing their minds
The Blitzkrieg Bop
HEY HO LETS GO
They're piling in the back seat
They generate steam heat
Pulsatin' to the back beat
The Blitzkrieg Bop
Hey ho, let's go
Shoot them in the back now
What they want, I don't know
They're all revved up and ready to go
They're forming in straight line
They're going through a tight wind
The kids are losing their minds
The Blitzkrieg Bop
They're piling in the back seat
They generate steam heat
Pulsatin' to the back beat
The Blitzkrieg Bop
Hey ho, let's go
Hey ho, let's go
Hey ho, let's go
Hey ho, let's go
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Conclusion
After having researched and read about this iconic world rock band, they realize interesting
historical data like that the band is a pioneer in Punk-Rock, I contribute a lot of material to this
nascent musical genre at that time.
To know where the characteristic name of the band and all its attire comes from, as well as the
story behind the logo that, in comparison to the music produced by the Ramones, sold more shirts
than records.

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