Ebook: Lobotomy: surviving the Ramones
Author: Cafiero John, Kofman Veronica, Ramone Dee Dee
- Tags: Drug abuse, Punk rock musicians, Punk rock musicians--United States, Biographies, Biography, Electronic books, Ramone Dee Dee, Ramone Dee Dee -- Drug use, Ramones (Musical group), Punk rock musicians -- United States -- Biography, United States
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: Da Capo Press
- City: United States
- Edition: Third edition
- 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!