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    • The Ramones - NEW YORK - APRIL 30:  TV/radio personality Matt Pinfield, musician Tommy Ramone of The Ramones, musician Chris Frantz of the Talking Heads, director Mandy Stein and musician Jesse Malin attend a screening and panel discussion of "Burning Down The House: The Story Of CBGB" during the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival at SVA Theater on April 30, 2009 in New York City.
    The Ramones are the first punk rock band. Other bands, such as the Stooges and the New York Dolls, came before them and set the stage and aesthetic for punk, and bands that immediately followed, such as the Sex Pistols, made the latent violence of the music more explicit, but the Ramones crystallized the musical ideals of the genre. By cutting rock & roll down to its bare essentials -- four ...more


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