Poison Heart: Surviving the "Ramones" - Softcover

Ramone, Dee Dee; Kofman, Veronica

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0946719489 ISBN 13: 9780946719488

Publisher: Firefly Publishing, 2001

Synopsis

Poison Heart takes the reader on a breakneck tour from a dysfunctional childhood, heroin, punk rock and the heyday of the Ramones to internal wrangling, gruelling tours and methadone clinics. Along the way, Johnny Thunders and Stiv Bators succumb to their addictions, Dee Dee s own girlfriend overdoses, Sid vicious Shoots up with toilet water, and Phil Spector holds the band at gun-point in his Beverly Hills mansion. Hey! Ho! Lets go!

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Review

"One of the great rock and roll books... This is the true, pathetic, awesome story of The Ramones." -- Q Magazine, January 1998

“Dee Dee’s story – knee deep in sex , drugs and rock ‘n’ roll is too incident packed to be anything less than gripping”. -- Mojo, January 1998

“Poison Heart is like a Richard Price novel: full of delinquency, violence, addiction, brutality and ear splitting rock ‘n’ roll”. Scott Rowley -- The Band

Synopsis

The Ramones were one of the first bands responsible for punk - wearing torn jeans, black leather jackets and playing short, loud trashy rock'n'roll songs. This is Dee Dee Ramone's harrowing tale of 15 years of life on the road with the band. A story both tragic and comic, littered with many of the colourful characters that made up the New York Punk scene. Dee Dee lived the rock'n'roll lifestyle to the full, wrote the band's best songs and Sid Vicious openly modelled himself on him. Dee Dee Ramone has recently completed a UK tour promoting his new solo album and has appeared in the high profile publications "Q", "NME", "Melody Maker" and "Record Collector".

Edition details

• Publisher: Firefly Publishing
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0946719489
• ISBN 13: 9780946719488
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 224