![]() ![]() You should really buy it.' And I was like, 'But it was under my bed…' And he goes, 'But it isn't under your bed any longer. "Johnny liked this one, he kept it under the bed in Chelsea where we lived for years, then he traded it to this kid Chris Lamy, and then Chris Lamy decided to sell it, and he sold it to this guy that runs the RR Auction, and the guy called me up and said, 'Johnny's guitar is going up. ![]() 'Johnny personally had this guitar customized to achieve his instantly recognizable sound and fit his unique playing style,' said Robert Livingston, Executive VP at RR Auction. Ramone, now 55, is always expanding her collection of Ramones memorabilia, which she proudly displays in her Los Angeles home. "I try to always figure out what I don't have, because then I'll go buy it from someone," she says. "I like to keep my collection complete." She points out Johnny's guitar from the It's Alive era. The winning bidder was Linda Ramone, Johnny’s widow, who announced the guitar will be displayed as part of the Ramones exhibit at the Grammy Museum on Los Angeles. So I'd write them down and he'd write them down." Ramone's story-how, at 19, she dated Joey for two years before dating (and later marrying) Johnny-is, of course, the stuff of rock 'n' roll legend. "When Joey would say words to songs, he'd tell me to write them down. "Choice pieces." She walks over to a case displaying scraps of paper scrawled with lyrics: "I wrote that and Joey wrote that," she says, pointing to a sheet covered in alternating pink and black ink. "Johnny kept everything: his baseball glove, his cadet belt, a teddy bear," she says. As she walks me through the exhibit, she points out her donations, stopping to show off her End of the Century t-shirt. Ramone, the founder and president of Ramones Productions and the Johnny Ramone Army, a charity organization, is fiercely protective of the band's legacy and devotes her life to keeping it alive. The exhibition traces the complete history of the punk icons, from the band's humble 1974 founding by a group of high school friends in Forest Hills to their launch of a worldwide music revolution and the aftermath of their dramatic separation. Tra i pi famosi artisti pop del XX secolo, considerato uno dei musicisti pi innovativi e influenti della storia della musica. Ramone is in town for the opening of Hey! Ho! Let's Go: Ramones and the Birth of Punk, a retrospective at the Queens Museum honoring the legacy of the Ramones on the 40th anniversary of their debut album Ramones. Stevie Wonder, nome d'arte di Stevland Hardaway Morris, nato Stevland Hardaway Judkins ( Saginaw, 13 maggio 1950 ), un cantautore, polistrumentista, compositore e produttore discografico statunitense. As soon as I leave, people go, 'Oh, is it your birthday?' And then I realize what they see is crazy. Plan Your Visit Reopening Measures Exhibits. I wear a tiara every day and no one says anything. The funny thing is, in LA, I stay in my own neighborhood where I live and I go to Beverly Hills and Bel-Air. WATCH LIVE NOWHEY HO LET’S GO: CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF RAMONESOn opening night of its latest exhibit, Hey Ho Lets Go: Ramones and the Birth of Punk, the. "I got it from the Disney princesses," she says of her ubiquitous headpiece. The petite widow of Johnny Ramone greets me decked out in a bubblegum pink minidress and bright red cape, accessorized with a glittering tiara. Don't let her short stature fool you: Linda Ramone is a force of nature. ![]()
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