Jeffrey Ross Hyman, known professionally as Joey Ramone, was an American singer, best known as the lead vocalist and a founding member of the punk rock band Ramones.
17 Facts About Joey Ramone
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Joey Ramone's parents were Charlotte and Noel Hyman.
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Joey Ramone was born with a parasitic twin growing out of his back, which was incompletely formed and surgically removed.
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Joey Ramone married a second time but was widowed when her second husband died in a car accident while she was on vacation.
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Joey Ramone initially served as the group's drummer while Dee Dee Joey Ramone was the original vocalist.
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Joey Ramone was the lead singer and I couldn't believe how good he was.
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In 1985, Joey Ramone joined Steven Van Zandt's music industry activist group Artists United Against Apartheid, which campaigned against the Sun City resort in South Africa.
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In 1994, Joey Ramone appeared on the Helen Love album Love and Glitter, Hot Days and Music, singing the track "Punk Boy".
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In October 1996, Joey Ramone headlined the "Rock the Reservation" alternative rock festival in Tuba City, Arizona.
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Joey Ramone co-wrote and recorded the song "Meatball Sandwich" with Youth Gone Mad.
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Joey Ramone's last recording as a vocalist was backup vocals on the CD One Nation Under by the Dine Navajo rock group Blackfire.
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Joey Ramone appeared on two tracks, "What Do You See" and "Lying to Myself".
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Joey Ramone produced the Ronnie Spector EP She Talks to Rainbows in 1999.
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Joey Ramone kept his condition private until it was revealed on March 19,2001, that he was battling the disease.
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Joey Ramone died of the illness at New York-Presbyterian Hospital on April 15,2001, a month before he would have turned 50.
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Joey Ramone was reportedly listening to the song "In a Little While" by U2 when he died.
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Joey Ramone is interred at New Mount Zion Cemetery in Lyndhurst, New Jersey.