Ebook: Lobotomy : surviving the Ramones
Author: Cafiero John, Kofman Veronica, Ramone Dee Dee
- Tags: Ramone Dee Dee., Ramone Dee Dee -- Drug use., Ramones (Musical group), Punk rock musicians -- United States -- Biography., Drug abuse., Punk rock musicians., United States.
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: Da Capo Press
- City: United States
- Edition: Array
- Language: English
- epub
Lobotomy is a lurid and unlikely temperance tract from the underbelly of rock 'n' roll. Taking readers on a wild rollercoaster ride from his crazy childhood in Berlin and Munich to his lonely methadone-soaked stay at a cheap hotel in Earl's Court and newfound peace on the straight and narrow, Dee Dee Ramone catapults readers into the raw world of sex, addiction, and two-minute songs. It isn't pretty. With the velocity of a Ramones song, Lobotomy rockets from nights at CBGB's to the breakup of the Ramones' happy family with an unrelenting backbeat of hate and squalor: his girlfriend ODs; drug buddy Johnny Thunders steals his ode to heroin, "Chinese Rock"; Sid Vicious shoots up using toilet water; and a pistol-wielding Phil Spector holds the band hostage in Beverly Hills. Hey! Ho! Let's go!