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Lobotomy: Surviving the Ramones | Dee Dee Ramone, Veronica Kofman

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Lobotomy is a lurid and unlikely temperance tract from the underbelly of rock 'n' roll. Taking readers on a wild rollercoaster ride from his crazy childhood in Berlin and Munich to his lonely methadone-soaked stay at a cheap hotel in Earl's Court and newfound peace on the straight and narrow, Dee Dee Ramone catapults readers into the raw world of sex, addiction, and two-minute songs. It isn't pretty. With the velocity of a Ramones song, Lobotomy rockets from nights at CBGB's to the breakup of the Ramones' happy family with an unrelenting backbeat of hate and squalor: his girlfriend ODs; drug buddy Johnny Thunders steals his ode to heroin, "Chinese Rock"; Sid Vicious shoots up using toilet water; and a pistol-wielding Phil Spector holds the band hostage in Beverly Hills. Hey! Ho! Let's go!

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Lobotomy: Surviving the Ramones | Dee Dee Ramone, Veronica Kofman

I'm always surprised by the influence of the Beatles on punk musicians. Richard Hell cited them as one of his influences in his memoir, I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp, and here Dee Dee Ramone is giving credit for the Ramones name to a Paul McCartney persona. So interesting!

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Lobotomy: Surviving the Ramones | Dee Dee Ramone, Veronica Kofman

I'm fairly certain I'm supposed to be using my downtime at yoga teacher training school to be studying anatomy and yoga philosophy ... but I finally got Lobotomy off the library wait list so ... I'm such a sucker for punk memoirs.

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