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Varsity.īut many were impressed by their hard-driving rock 'n' roll. Not rated suitable for mature audiences (contains some harsh language). Directed by Michael Gramaglia and Jim Fields.
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"End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones," a documentary with Johnny Ramone, Joey Ramone, Dee Dee Ramone, Tommy Ramone, Joe Strummer, Debbie Harry, Seymour Stein, Legs McNeil, Arturo Vega, Danny Fields. "It was like the SS just walked in," someone recalls. People didn't know whether to laugh or run. Their music skills were minimal, their songs short, their attitudes bad. Then there were the Ramones, with their scowls, black leather jackets and hair out of some alternative universe where the Herman's Hermits still ruled. "There was nowhere else to play," they recall.īands like Television, the Talking Heads and Blondie headlined.
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The band wound up playing at the punk club CBGB. In the early '70s, because of hard economic times, parts of the lower east side of Manhattan were deserted. The Ramones were geeky kids from Forest Hills, Queens, who listened to the same marginalized music (the Stooges and the New York Dolls) and eventually picked up instruments and began playing. "Century" tries to provide an answer while giving viewers a look at one of the more influential bands of the punk and grunge eras. Halfway through the documentary "End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones," punk author Legs McNeil asks the question that anyone who tries to reconcile the Ramones' legend with their music asks: "Those songs are classic American pop.