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Johnny Ramone (1948–2004)

Autor(a) de Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone

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Nome legal
Cummings, John
Data de nascimento
1948-10-08
Data de falecimento
2004-09-15
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Long Island, New York, USA
Local de falecimento
Los Angeles, California, USA
Ocupações
guitarist
songwriter
Relações
Ramones (band)

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This was a pretty decent book and it's an easy read. Johnny can come off like a dick, but he's so endearing. I'd recommend it for a short read or if you like the Ramones at all. No real new info but it presents his side of the story more than some of the other books and documentaries on the band do.
 
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heytoomey | 4 outras críticas | Jan 20, 2022 |
This is a book you wouldn't have expected, as Johnny died in 2004 and this book was published eight years later. That it was edited by the immensely talented songwriter and producer John Cafiero rather than a book editor is also unusual.
This is Johnny in his own words, though I'm not sure if he was keeping a journal throughout his life or if he was writing his memoirs later with the intention of publication.
He writes of his childhood, then teen years, graduating from high school without an idea of what he would do, and working jobs that were just jobs. The story of how the Ramones were formed is here, and so unremarkable that it's almost funny. Johnny also writes of his approach to the Ramones style in both music and dress, his feelings towards his bandmates, his personal life, and then his diagnosis of prostate cancer.
I've read the autobiographies of bandmates Marky and Dee Dee, and Johnny's is the difficult one to assess. He is acknowledged, even by himself, to be the unfriendliest member of the band, the one who intimidated even the other guys. He was argumentative and sometimes violent. He also had a habit of overlapping his romantic relationships and it's interesting to see his complaints of how stressful it was for him to juggle multiple secret relationships. And then there's the biggest scandal, that Johnny was having an affair with singer Joey's fiancee, Linda, for years, then finally Johnny and Linda got married. Here, Johnny tells his version of the affair, their marriage and how he and Joey managed to still work together for another twelve years without being friends and barely speaking.
For all his abrasiveness, it's still heartbreaking to read of his realization that something was physically wrong, and of his diagnosis at around 48 years old of aggressive prostate cancer, and his attempts at being cured. This is a must for Ramones fans. It's not the only version of what went down, but it's Johnny's version and his opinions.
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mstrust | 4 outras críticas | Jan 24, 2020 |
I hated it, and then I liked it, and then I loved it. I have read pretty much everything that has been written by or about the Ramones, and was dreading this book. It's not pretty and it's not polished and there are times the writing is just so unbelievably dry I regretted even starting the book. But over time I grew to both like and respect Johnny a lot more than I ever did. I am sure every member of the band had their own take on who did what, but this actually ended up feeling more even-handed than anything else. He gave credit to Dee Dee and Joey while at the same time admitting that they drove him crazy and that they both made him angry. He's also pretty damn honest about his own asshole qualities (of which there are MANY). I think this is mandatory reading if you care about the history of NYC punk rock, or hell, music history in general.… (mais)
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Caryn.Rose | 4 outras críticas | Mar 18, 2015 |
The late Johnny Ramone in his own words with lots of great photos, Johnny's top ten lists, and his personal assessments of each Ramones record. A genuine punk was he. Raw, honest, crazy, fast and funny, kinda like a Ramones record.
 
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Sullywriter | 4 outras críticas | Apr 3, 2013 |

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