These include Joe Strummer, in his last recorded interview, remembering how The Clash and the Pistols attempted to break into The Roundhouse at The Ramones' first London gig.
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But it was singer Joey, the romantic geek steeped in rock 'n' roll history, who most completely embodied The Ramones' misfit image, and who sums up the band's unique chemistry with a simple "opposites attract and all that crap."ĭuring the course of the film there's extensive footage of the band playing live, new and archive interviews, plus recollections from those on the scene.
Leader Johnny's work ethic propelled the band but his right-wing conservativism was at odds with the group's counter-cultural cachet: at the Hall of Fame bash he's seen bigging up Bush. Bassist Dee Dee was the charismatic clown whose belligerent attitude concealed a keen wit - and a long term drug problem. An inspiration to the Pistols and the Clash, The Ramones mined a seam that combined the furious energy of The Stooges with the pop sensibility of The Beach Boys.īeginning and ending with the band's induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2002 (six years after they'd split up), Michael Gramaglia and Jim Fields' detailed documentary penetrates da brudders' united front to explore the divisions that at first drove the band, and later drove them apart.īorn in the working class neighbourhood of Forest Hills, Queens, The Ramones were an extraordinary mix of contradictory personalities. It's Malcolm McLaren and The Sex Pistols who are credited with creating punk in 1977, but New York's The Ramones beat them to it by nearly three years.
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