Ramones family row puts the skids on US punk pioneers’ biopic

 

 "Joey and Johnny Ramone did not speak after Linda, who had originally dated Joey, later married Johnny. Joey wrote a song about the love triangle, The KKK Took My Baby Away, and the pair would only communicate through a third-party interlocutor, even on their tour bus.

However, Linda never stopped adoring Joey who, at 6 foot 6, performing behind a mop of hair and thick dark glasses, was one of rock’s most compelling frontmen.

She was with him when he wrote Danny Says, a song title that refers to Danny Fields, their original co-manager. “He wrote that song to her,” Fields says. “It’s a love song about the girl he misses back home. It was Joey’s love letter to Linda.”"

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Ramones family row puts the skids on US punk pioneers’ biopic | The Ramones | The Guardian