Joey ramone net worth

April 16 -- He wanted shock treatment. He wanted to be sedated. He wanted the airwaves. He even wanted to be your boyfriend.

Punk fans are mourning the loss of Joey Ramone, lead singer of the seminal s punk rock band The Ramones, who died Sunday of lymphatic cancer, longtime Ramones artistic director Arturo Vega said.

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His band inspired a generation of anti-establishment rock groups, from the Sex Pistols to the grunge bands of the s.

Ramone, born Jeffrey Hyman on May 19, , entered the hospital last month to treat the disease, a cancer that attacks the body's ability to fight infection.

Joey ramone biography mickey leigh Ramone initially served as the group's drummer while Dee Dee Ramone was the original vocalist. The film is being made with the full cooperation and support of Ramone's estate, with a treatment written by Davidson and director Jason Orley. Jeffrey Ross Hyman May 19, — April 15, , known professionally as Joey Ramone , was an American singer, songwriter, and the lead vocalist and founding member of the punk rock band Ramones , along Johnny Ramone and Dee Dee Ramone. Johnny blessed George Bush and its Presidency.

He died as U2's "In a Little While" played in his hospital room, according to the New York Daily News.

"Just as the song finished, Joey finished," His mother, Charlotte Lesher, told the newspaper. "He's free now. He heard it, and now he's gone."

New York City Originals

In , the singer hooked up with three friends from Queens, N.Y.

— Johnny, Dee Dee and Tommy — and each took on the surname Ramone — Joey would later say it was because Paul McCartney once used the name Paul Ramon in the early, leather-jacket days of The Beatles.

The Ramones themselves have been hailed as "The Beatles of punk rock," and the comparison was not hyperbole: the band defined punk before there was a punk.

U2 memory of joey ramone biography It was later revealed that Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten along with other members of The Clash and the Sex Pistols, attended the gig and went to a backstage window in order to get in and meet the Ramones. Hyman was a fan of the Beatles , [ 8 ] the Who , David Bowie , and the Stooges among other bands, particularly oldies and the Phil Spector -produced girl groups. The band auditioned new drummers at Performance Studio, where they rehearsed. He grew up with his brother Mickey Leigh.

In fact, without the Ramones, there may not have been a punk rock.

"All the better-known punk groups that followed — The Sex Pistols, The Clash, whoever — they would be the first ones to say that without The Ramones the whole punk movement never would have happened," said Spin magazine editor-in-chief Alan Light.

It was the band's tour of the United Kingdom that kicked off on July 4, , that reportedly influenced later punk legends such as The Sex Pistols and The Clash.

A Rock ’n’ Roll Landmark

The Ramones' debut was recorded in just two days and cost $6, Light said the minute recording was a landmark.