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Marky Ramone (born Marc Steven Bell on July 15, 1952) is an American musician. He is best known for being the drummer of the punk rock band the Ramones, from May 1978 until February 1983, and August 1987 until August 1996. He has also played in other notable bands, including the Misfits, Dust, Estus, and Richard Hell & the Voidoids.
Marky Ramone’s tenure with the Ramones lasted 15 years. He is the only living member inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the only living member to receive the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
In 2015 Marky released his autobiography Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life as a Ramone
Hardback Edition
Hand Signed by Marky Ramone to the Title Page
New & Unread – Published in 2015
When punk rock reared its spiky head in the early seventies, Marc Bell had the best seat in the house. Already a young veteran of the prototype American metal band Dust, Bell took residence in artistic, seedy Lower Manhattan, where he played drums in bands that would shape rock music for decades to come, including Wayne County, who pioneered transsexual rock, and Richard Hell and the Voidoids, who directly inspired the entire early British punk scene.
If punk has royalty, Marc became part of it in 1978 when he was anointed ‘Marky Ramone’ by Johnny, Joey, and Dee Dee of the iconoclastic Ramones. The band of tough misfits were a natural fit for Marky, who dressed punk before there was punk, and who brought with him his ‘blitzkrieg’ style of drumming, as well as the studio and stage experience the group needed to solidify its line-up. Together, they would change the world. But Marky Ramone changed, too.
The epic wear and tear of a dysfunctional group endlessly crisscrossing the country and the planet in a van – practically a psychiatric ward on wheels – drove Marky from partying to alcoholism. When his life started to look more out of control than Dee Dee’s, he knew he had a problem. Marky left music in the mid-eighties to enter recovery and returned to help the Ramones finally receive their due as one of the greatest and most influential bands of all time.
From the cult film Rock ‘n’ Roll High School to ‘I Wanna Be Sedated’ to Marky’s own struggles, Punk Rock Blitzkrieg is an authentic, unflinching, and always honest look at the people who reinvented rock music. And not a moment too soon.
About the author: Born Marc Bell, Marky Ramone, a Brooklyn native, joined the Ramones in 1978. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002 along with Johnny, Joey, Dee Dee, and Tommy and has received both a Grammy and an MTV Lifetime Achievement Award. Visit him online at www.markyramone.com to keep up with all the latest.
This genuine Marky Ramone Hand Signed Punk Rock Blitzkrieg Book has been autographed to the title page.