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marked as a turning point – even if no one can pinpoint an exact moment punk began. On the 50th anniversary of that gig last month, those in the know celebrated its significance but the nostalgia made it tough to ignore how much the neighborhood has changed.In the 1970s, the Lower East Side was known as a haven for sex workers and drug addicts but the former CBGB’s on the Bowery at Second Avenue is now a John Varvatos.

in a long-running legal battle over the Ramones, a former business manager for the iconic punk band claimed.Shira Scheindlin — who ruled in 2013 that stop-and-frisk was unconstitutional and was later booted from the case by an appeals court for impartiality — has allegedly shown “outrageous and improper behavior” throughout the dispute between guitarist Johnny Ramone’s widow, Linda Cummings-Ramone, and lead singer Joey Ramone’s brother, who goes by the stage name Mickey Leigh, according to court papers.Lawyers for Leigh wants to vacate Scheindlin’s December decision forcing former business manager David Frey to step down, claiming the jurist lacked jurisdiction. Frey violated the terms of RPI’s agreements when he failed to present deal for a potential Netflix movie about Leigh’s book, “I Slept with Joey Ramone: A Punk Rock Family Memoir,” to the company for approval, Scheindlin found.It took decades for the band, whose four founding members were from Queens, to become a commercial success with its eponymous April 1976 debut going gold 38 years after it debuted.Earlier this year, Frey sued Cummings-Ramone for defamation after she previously accused him of threatening to leak a sex tape of her.“Judge Scheindlin exceeded her bounds and usurped jurisdiction on issues over which she lacked the power to decide,” Frey’s lawyer’s claimed in a January filing seeking to vacate her decision and also accusing her of “often screaming at defense counsel for inconsequential acts.”A transcript included in court records shows Scheindlin chastising Frey’s lawyers for failing to provide evidence ahead of time and for dragging out proceedings.“Ms.

played CBGB’s on Aug. 16, 1974 – one of the moments now viewed as the birth of punk – the band’s “Blitzkrieg Bop” and its chant of “Hey Ho! Let’s Go!” is blasted into stadiums at every sporting event, the leather-and-jeans uniform is instantly recognizable, and T-shirts with the band’s presidential-seal logo are so popular they’re worn by people who couldn’t tell a pinhead from a parrothead.If the pioneering original members – vocalist Joey Ramone, guitarist Johnny Ramone, bassist Dee Dee Ramone and drummer Tommy Ramone – were alive and in playing shape today, they could sell out arenas after spending most of their careers headlining clubs and theaters, longtime tour manager Monte A.

the iconic New York rock club that started a music moment five decades ago.In fact, the all-female act made themselves so at home at the East Village institution that they once played in their pajamas at a benefit gig — with a loaded lineup including Patti Smith, Elvis Costello and CBGB house band Mink DeVille — after club owner Hilly Kristal kept pushing their set time back.“We used to use the Ramones’ loft around the corner [at 6 East 2nd St., now known as Joey Ramone Place] as our dressing room because it was horrible at CBGB,” Ross told The Post.“So we went over to the Ramones loft, and we changed into our pajamas. And we wore these pink flannel pajamas and cowboy boots back over to CBGB’s, and we brought pillows.

Blink-182 have paid homage to the legendary New York rock band the Ramones in the video for their latest single ‘Dance With Me’.The track is a fresh take on a classic Blink song packed with a tapping guitar riff, heavy drums and catchy, anthemic lyrics such as: “Olé, Olé. Olé, Olé, Olé, Olé / Yeah / We’re doing it all night long“.Directed by The Malloys, the song’s accompanying video is billed as a love letter to the famous New York punks – one of Blink’s favourite bands – and sees Mark Hoppus, Tom DeLonge and Travis Barker dressed up in Ramones cosplay.

Seymour Stein, the founder of Sire Records who launched the recording careers of Madonna, the Ramones, Talking Heads and the Pretenders, died Sunday of cancer in Los Angeles. He was 80.

Supersuckers have shared their collaborative cover of the Ramones, which features an appearance from Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder.The two artists first teamed up for the cover at a benefit gig held in Seattle on June 18, 2015, which was held to raise money to help Supersuckers frontman Eddie Spaghetti in his battle against stage three oropharynx cancer.Vedder joined the band during the encore of the show to perform a version of the Ramones’ ‘I Believe In Miracles’.