Tommy Ramone Joins Dee Dee, Joey, and Johnny on the Other Side

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"The Ramones stopped music long enough for U2 and the other garage bands to get on. They invented something: The idea that your limitations were what you made. Your street, your neighborhood, the clothes on your back, your record collection was the size of your universe."
- Bono, U2




“Once we figured out the Zen of it, the world looked different. Bands like the Eagles and the Who sounded weak, Pink Floyd sounded mannered, Zeppelin almost flatulent. The Ramones seemed to understand all of that, even as they chipped chinks in the armor that would later allow for the blow that, while it did not kill the beast, made its mortality plain.” 
– Bill Wyman on the power of the Ramones

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"It wasn't just music in The Ramones: it was an idea. It was bringing back a whole feel that was missing in rock music – it was a whole push outwards to say something new and different. Originally it was just an artistic type of thing; finally I felt it was something that was good enough for everybody."
- Tommy Ramone, 1949 - 2014

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