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Tommy Ramone, Founding Member of Influential Punk Band, Dies at 62

Started by Allhallowsday, July 12, 2014, 06:04:48 PM

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Allhallowsday

I posted this same notice in Entertainment.

Tommy Ramone, Founding Member of Influential Punk Band, Dies at 62   

https://music.yahoo.com/news/tommy-ramone-last-surviving-original-member-influential-punk-050701489.html

Drummer and producer Tommy Ramone, the last surviving original member of the influential New York punk quartet the Ramones, died Friday at his home in the Ridgewood area of Queens, New York. He was 62 and had been in hospice care following treatment for bile duct cancer.

Born Erdelyi Tamas in Budapest, Hungary, and known professionally as Tom or T. Erdelyi, Ramone played on the first three epoch-making Ramones albums, "Ramones" (1976), "Leave Home" (1977) and "Rocket to Russia" (1977). He also co-produced the latter two albums with Tony Bongiovi and Ed Stasium, respectively. He appeared on and co-produced the 1979 live Ramones opus "It's Alive..." 

https://music.yahoo.com/news/tommy-ramone-last-surviving-original-member-influential-punk-050701489.html

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as an aging punk,myself,this broke my heart. i saw marky and his band blitzkreig at our riverfest in june,it just...didn't cut it. sorry,marky,if you read here.