Do You Remember Rock 'n Roll Radio - The Ramones, 1980
(This is Rock and Roll radio - c'mon, let's Rock and Roll with the Ramones) Rock 'n, Rock 'n Roll radio
Let's go! Rock 'n, Rock 'n Roll radio Let's go! Rock 'n, Rock 'n Roll radio Let's go!
Rock 'n, Rock 'n Roll radio Let's go!
Do you remember Hullabaloo,
Upbeat, Shindig and Ed Sullivan too? Do you remember Rock 'n Roll radio? Do you remember Rock 'n Roll radio? Do you remember Murray the K,
Alan Freed, and high energy? It's the end, the end of the 70's It's the end, the end of the century Do you remember lying in bed With your covers pulled up over your head? Radio playin' so no one can see We need change, and we need it fast Before rock's just part of the past 'Cause lately it all sounds the same to me Whoa-oh Rock 'n, Rock 'n Roll radio
Let's go! Rock 'n, Rock 'n Roll radio Let's go! Rock 'n, Rock 'n Roll radio Let's go!
Rock 'n, Rock 'n Roll radio Let's go!
Will you remember Jerry Lee, John Lennon, T. Rex and O'le Moulty? It's the end, the end of the 70's
It's the end, the end of the century [Chorus]
Rock 'n, Rock 'n Roll radio
Let's go! Rock 'n, Rock 'n Roll radio Let's go! Rock 'n, Rock 'n Roll radio Let's go!
Rock 'n, Rock 'n Roll radio Let's go!
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No - Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee and Tommy were not related - they used the stage name Ramone as members of the best damned, straight-ahead, three-chord, punk rock group of all time. They had achieved local fame by the mid-70s, partly due to their popularity at the club CBGB in New York City. Most of their songs averaged around two minutes in length, and this helped in making a good first impression to a raucous crowd.
They remained more or less a cult band for most of the 1970s, but their appearance in the 1979 movie Rock 'n' Roll High School helped moved them more into the mainstream. In 1980, the Ramones released End of the Century, an album produced by Phil Spector. You hear his "wall of sound" fingerprints all over Do You Remember Rock 'n Roll Radio; the rich sound and dense layers were his trademark.
The band fired Spector soon after that (possibly because he pulled a gun on Dee Dee, and forced him to play a riff correctly). They returned to their simple, edgier stuff and recorded well into the 90s. Between 2001 and 2004, Joey, Dee Dee and Johnny all died from various causes. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002, and are all missed by their fans...
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