…and our adolescence officially ends. (Okay, at thirtysomething, maybe it’s long overdue, but we thought the party would last forever.) The Village Voice‘s Donna Gaines pays tribute to the unabashedly Republican guitarist, saying “If Joey was the heart and Dee Dee the soul of the Ramones, Johnny was the balls.”
Damn. Just when The Ramones are getting their big-screen due with a new documentary End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones, the last of those punk rock babies kicks it. We’re so sad, we’re going to sedate ourselves with an iTunes binge.