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Mako may refer to:

Biology[link]

• Isurus, the mako shark genus, consisting of two living and several fossil species:
  • Shortfin mako shark, Isurus oxyrinchus, the more common mako
  • Longfin mako shark, Isurus paucus, the rarer mako

Places[link]

• Mako, Ethiopia, a town in Ethiopia
• Makó, a town in Hungary
• Makung City, a city on the main Pescadore Island in the Taiwan Strait ("Mako" is an alternate romanization)

People[link]

• MAKO (b. 1986), member of Japanese popular music group Bon-Bon Blanco
• Princess Mako of Akishino (b. 1991), member of the Japanese imperial family
• Mako Iwamatsu (1933–2006), Japanese-American actor and voice actor frequently credited as Mako
• Benjamin Mako Hill (b. 1980), a free/open source software developer and advocate
• Mako, chief of the Bedonkohe Apache and grandfather of Geronimo

Business[link]

• Mako Elektrik
• mako, Israeli news and entertainment portal owned by Keshet

In fiction[link]

• Mako, a substance on the fictional video game planet Gaia (Final Fantasy VII)
• Mako Ballistics, a fictional weapons manufacturer in the video game Deus Ex: Invisible War
• Mako Spince, a minor character introduced in Star Wars: Dark Empire
• Mako, a character from the manga/anime Initial D
• Mako, a villain from the Savage Dragon comic book
• Mako Hooker, the main character from Something's Down There by Mickey Spillane
• Captain Mako, a character in the City of Heroes franchise
• M35 Mako, an infantry fighting vehicle in the game Mass Effect
• Mako Island is a fictional island in H2O: Just Add Water
• Mako Tsunami, a duelist in the anime Yu-Gi-Oh
• Mako: The Jaws of Death, 1976 film

Other[link]

• Mako cotton, Egyptian extra-long staple cotton, from the name of Mako-bey, in whose garden Jumel discovered a cultivar of this cotton
• Mako (people), an indigenous people of South America
• Mako, a type of cryogenic open-circuit scuba set
• Mako (dance), an action dance from Tonga
• MAKO, a rock group from Ireland that includes former Cyclefly member Declan O'Shea
• Mako (template engine), an Internet template engine for Python
• M.A.K.O. (Movement Against Kindred Offenders), an Australian website promoting public awareness of sex crimes
• Mako, boat brand of Tracker Marine Group
• Fighting Makos, 93d Fighter Squadron based at Homestead ARB
• EADS Mako/HEAT, a jet aircraft

See also[link]

• All pages beginning with "Mako"
• All pages with titles containing "Mako"
• Maco (disambiguation)
• MAACO

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Angel Mae Taylor^[1] is a pop singer-songwriter based out of the Los Angeles area.

Angel Taylor's debut album, entitled Love Travels^[2] was released on iTunes on March 31, 2009 through Aware/Columbia Records. An EP titled "Love Travels EP" was released on iTunes in February 2009 prior to the release of Taylor's full debut album featuring several songs from the LP. Her song "Make Me Believe" was offered as the iTunes single of the week during the week of March 30, 2009. Taylor has toured with a variety of artists including Adele, Kate Voegele, Brett Dennen, Brandi Carlile and Gavin DeGraw. Taylor will be supporting artists such as Five For Fighting, Mat Kearney, and Sugar Ray at various concerts during the summer of 2009.

Taylor was also featured as one of VH1's You Oughtta Know: Artists On The Rise in 2010.

Family[link]

Angel Taylor is the sister of Ebony Taylor who appeared briefly on America's Next Top Model, Cycle 5.

One of five sisters who had always shared rooms, by age 20 Angel helped her family buy their first house with a room for everyone.^[3]

Early career[link]

Angel's recording career began when an email was unknowingly sent out to producer Mikal Blue who has also worked with Colbie Caillat and Brendan James, and this resulted in an invitation to his studio. At Revolver Studios came an impromptu audition to find the answer as to how to download her music onto a CD. Angel Taylor said: "I played two songs, 'Chai' and 'It's Easy,' and he said he wanted to work with me - I told him all I wanted to do was get my music on a CD, and asked him how long that was going to take, and he said, 'Oh no, I want to really work with you...'"^[4]

After only a matter of months, Angel Taylor took her first plane trip to the record label studio in New York and bought her first cell phone. After signing with Aware/Columbia Records she was able to move herself, her mother and two of her sisters into their first house. Angel had had no musical school and, only starting writing poetry because of her sister. Angel Taylor: "Ebony started writing poetry when she was 14, I was 13, and I started writing cheeseball stuff like, 'you're awesome, I think you're opossum.' It didn't really get real until a few years later, but I never took a lesson - songs happened by me banging on a piano, playing it by ear, and trying to fit my poetry in. I didn't want to be a musician, I just wanted a fun hobby..."^[5]

The Voice[link]

She was a contestant in The Voice, where she picked Maroon 5 lead singer Adam Levine as her coach. Later in the battle rounds she lost to Katrina Parker therefore losing her chance to perform in the live shows.

Discography[link]

• Love Travels (2009)
• Love Travels EP (2009)
• Motion EP (2012)

Taylor's song "Like You Do" was featured in the next to last episode of The CW's One Tree Hill's sixth season and a season 2 episode of VH1's Tough Love, where Taylor also performed the song. "Make Me Believe" was featured on 90210 on May 5, 2009.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official site
• Official MySpace page
• Interview at singersroom.com
• Interview, Clutch Online

For the defunct avant-garde metal band from Kristiansand, Norway, see In the Woods...

In the Woods
Cover of In The Woods
Author(s)	Tana French
Country	Ireland
Language	English
Series	Dublin Murder Squad
Genre(s)	Mystery
Publisher	Viking Adult
Publication date	30 January 2007
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	496
ISBN	978-0-670-03860-2
OCLC Number	191864570
Dewey Decimal	823/.92 22
LC Classification	PR6106.R457 I52 2007
Followed by	The Likeness: A Novel

In the Woods is a 2007 mystery novel by Tana French about a pair of Irish detectives and their investigation of the murder of a twelve year old girl. The novel won several awards such as the 2008 Edgar Award for Best First Novel By An American Author,^[1] the 2008 Barry Award for Best First Novel,^[2] the 2008 Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel,^[3] and the 2008 Anthony Award for Best First Novel.^[4]

Plot[link]

Twenty years prior to the novel's events, twelve year-old Adam and his two best friends failed to come home after playing in the familiar woods bordering their Irish housing estate. A search is called by the families, and the police find Adam shivering, clawing the bark of a nearby tree, blood on his shoes and slash marks on his back. He is unable to tell them what happened or where his friends are. His amnesia holds to the present day, where he goes by his middle name, Rob, to avoid the attention of the media to his famous case. His friends were never found.

The plot of the novel circles around the murder of a twelve year old girl, Katy Devlin, whose case Rob and his partner Cassie Maddox are given to investigate. The body is found in the same woods where Rob’s friends disappeared, at an archeological dig site, and the coincidence is enough to make Rob nervous, though he insists to his partner that he is fine.

Cassie and Rob have been partners for a few years and get along famously, teasing one another and completing one another’s thoughts. There are many rumors at the station that they are romantically involved, though both of them scoff at the idea, despite the fact that they live almost like a married couple, spending a lot of time at Cassie’s cooking dinner for one another, drinking wine, and having Rob crash on Cassie’s couch across the room.

Katy’s murder takes the pair along many lines of investigation. Her death might be related to her father’s protests against the new highway meant to go straight through the dig site, or one of the students on the dig might have attacked her. She might have been abused by her father or someone else (her mother, twin sister, or older sister) in the family. She might have been previously poisoned over time. Or it might be related to the disappearance of Rob’s friends, as a hair clip that one of his friends was wearing that day appeared near the crime scene.

These possibilities are investigated, but the detectives come up frustratingly empty-handed at every turn. The case messes with Rob’s psyche as he tries to remember details about the two previous disappearances in case it would help. He tries spending the night in the woods, but freaks out and calls Cassie to pick him up. He’s afraid to sleep again, thinking that he’ll just have nightmares, so Cassie allows him into her bed. Things escalate from there and they end up having sex.

Rob feels immensely awkward after and can’t go back to their normal jokey-insult ways, but also feels that he can’t start a relationship with her. Their partnership deteriorates just as they start to uncover new leads in the case and they are unable to discuss the case and get along the way they used to.

Rob goes back to the dig site alone, where all the students are frantically digging before the site is shut down for the construction of the highway. He comes to a realization and calls in the forensics team again, who discover the location of the murder in a shed to which only three people have the key. After some heavy interrogation, one of the suspects confesses, though his motive is far from clear.

It becomes clearer when the suspect contends that he had been dating Katy’s older sister, Rosalind. When questioned by Cassie, she denies it and any involvement in Katy’s death, but also makes a comment that Cassie is obviously sleeping with Rob. Cassie takes it in stride, but after the interrogation, she has an idea of how to get a confession out of Rosalind: Go to her and admit sleeping with Rob and promise to keep her updated on the case if she promises not to tell.

Rosalind’s psychopathic tendencies get the better of her, and once she knows that she has Cassie in her debt, she brags about the whole thing and how she got the murderer to come up with the idea by telling him that all three girls were being sexually abused by their father, but that Katy liked it and was therefore their father’s favorite. Rosalind also told him that Katy told their father lies to make him beat them and would watch and laugh, that if Katy was gone, then they would be happy. She also admitted to Cassie that Katy was strong-willed and wouldn’t always do as Rosalind told her, so she had poisoned her to make her sick. After this confession, recorded on a wire, Cassie arrests her and takes her in, but because Rosalind was a few months from turning 18 (though she had told Rob previously that she was already 18), the confession is invalid. She is released with a smug smile.

The Police Captain has learned that Rob is actually Adam Ryan and confines him to desk work. He never goes back to Detective work. Cassie starts dating someone else and gets engaged. Rob is heartbroken and calls her, but it’s too late. He goes to the dig site to see the highway construction has begun, and thinks that he’ll never regain his lost memories of that night.

Reception[link]

Thomas Gaughan of Booklist gave In the Woods a starred review and hailed it as “…a superior novel about cops, murder, memory, relationships, and modern Ireland. The characters of Ryan and Maddox, as well as a handful of others, are vividly developed… Equally striking is the picture of contemporary Ireland, booming economically and fixated on the shabbiest aspects of American popular culture. An outstanding debut and a series to watch for procedural fans.” ^[5] Publishers Weekly praised author French, saying she “… expertly walks the line between police procedural and psychological thriller in her debut” and that “Ryan and Maddox are empathetic and flawed heroes, whose partnership and friendship elevate the narrative beyond a gory tale of murdered children and repressed childhood trauma.” ^[5] Kirkus Reviews said of the novel, “When not lengthily bogged down in angst, a readable, non-formulaic police procedural with a twist. It’s ultimately the confession of a damaged man.” ^[6]

Awards and nominations[link]

• Edgar Award for Best First Novel By An American Author, 2008^[1]
• Barry Award for Best First Novel, 2008^[2]
• Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel, 2008^[3]
• Anthony Award for Best First Novel, 2008^[4]

References[link]

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Dee Dee Ramone
Background information
Birth name	Douglas Glenn Colvin
Also known as	Dee Dee King
Born	(1951-09-18)September 18, 1951 Fort Lee, Virginia, USA
Died	June 5, 2002(2002-06-05) (aged 50) Los Angeles, California, USA
Genres	Punk rock, hip hop
Occupations	Musician, songwriter
Instruments	Bass guitar, vocals, guitar
Years active	1966–2002
Labels	Sire, Wanker, World Service, Other People's Music, Corazong
Associated acts	Ramones, GG Allin, Nina Hagen, Furious George, Paul Kostabi, Christian Martucci, Stefan Adika
Website	www.deedeeking.net
Notable instruments
Fender Precision Bass

Dee Dee Ramone (born Douglas Glenn Colvin) (September 18, 1951^[1] – June 5, 2002) was an American songwriter and musician, best known as founding member, songwriter, and bassist for punk rock band the Ramones.

Though nearly all of the Ramones' songs were credited equally to all the band members, Dee Dee was the band's most prolific lyricist and songwriter, writing many of the band's most well-known songs, such as "53rd & 3rd", "Commando", "Rockaway Beach", and "Poison Heart". He was initially the band's lead vocalist, though his (then) inability to sing and play bass at the same time resulted in original drummer Joey Ramone taking over the lead vocalist duties. Dee Dee would serve as the band's bassist and songwriter from 1974 through 1989, when he left to pursue a short-lived career in hip hop music under the name Dee Dee King. He soon returned to his punk roots and released three solo albums featuring brand new songs, many of which were later recorded by the Ramones. He toured the world playing his new songs, Ramones songs and some old favorites in small clubs, and continued to write songs for the Ramones until 1996, when the band officially retired.

Dee Dee struggled with drug addiction for much of his life, particularly heroin. He began using drugs as a teenager, and continued to use for the majority of his adult life. He appeared to clean up his act in the early 1990s but began using heroin again some time later. He died from a heroin overdose in 2002.^[2]

Biography[link]

Childhood[link]

Born Douglas Colvin in Fort Lee, Virginia, he was the son of an American soldier and a German woman. As an infant, his family relocated to Berlin, Germany, due to his father's military service. His father's military career also required the family to relocate frequently. These frequent moves caused Dee Dee to have a lonely childhood with few real friends. His parents separated during his early teens, and he remained in Berlin until the age of 15, when he, along with his mother and sister Beverley, moved to the Forest Hills section of New York City's borough of Queens, in order to escape Dee Dee's alcoholic father.^[3] There he met John Cummings and Thomas Erdelyi (later dubbed Johnny and Tommy "Ramone"), then playing in a band called The Tangerine Puppets, named after a Donovan song.

Marriage[link]

In 1978, he married Vera Boldis.^[4] According to Vera, Dee Dee's struggles with mental illness and drug abuse put a strain on the couple's relationship.^[5] They separated in 1990 before finalizing their divorce in 1995.^[6][7]

Ramones[link]

Dee Dee Ramone, July 1, 1977 Kelly's Pub, St. Paul, Minnesota

Colvin, later Dee Dee, and Cummings, later Johnny, quickly became friends, as they were both social outcasts in their heavily middle class neighborhood. After an unsuccessful guitar audition for Television, Johnny convinced Dee Dee to form their own band with then-drummer Jeffry Hyman, later Joey Ramone, in 1974. Joey took over vocal duties after Dee Dee decided that he could not sing lead vocals for longer than a few songs as his voice shredded. Dee Dee would continue, however, to count off each song's tempo with his signature rapid-fire shout of "1-2-3-4!"

It was Dee Dee who first suggested naming the band the Ramones, after reading that Paul McCartney often signed into hotels under the alias "Paul Ramon". He added an 'e' to the end of that surname and the band members all agreed to adopt the surname "Ramone" as a means of conveying their unity.

Dee Dee wrote or co-wrote much of the Ramones' repertoire, such as "53rd and 3rd" (a song about male prostitution at 53rd Street and 3rd Avenue in Manhattan, allegedly based on personal experience), "Glad to See You Go" (written about his then-girlfriend, a stripper and fellow drug user with a volatile personality), "It's a Long Way Back to Germany", "Chinese Rock" (originally recorded by Johnny Thunders and The Heartbreakers, as guitarist Johnny Ramone was not enthusiastic about the Ramones doing songs about drugs) and "Wart Hog" (a song Dee Dee wrote in rehab). After he quit the Ramones, Dee Dee continued to write songs for them, contributing at least three songs to each of their albums.

According to Mondo Bizarro's liner notes, for example, the Ramones once bailed Dee Dee out of jail in exchange for the rights to his songs "Main Man", "Strength to Endure" and "Poison Heart", which would become a minor hit for the band. The band's final studio album, 1995's Adios Amigos, consists of several of Dee Dee's solo songs, such as "I'm Makin' Monsters for My Friends" and "It's Not for Me to Know" from his album I Hate Freaks Like You.

Later projects[link]

In 1989, before leaving the Ramones, Dee Dee embarked on a brief hip hop career as rapper "Dee Dee King" with the album Standing in the Spotlight. Dee Dee had recorded "Funky Man" as Dee Dee King in 1987, while still a member of the Ramones. Music critic Matt Carlson wrote that the album "will go down in the annals of pop culture as one of the worst recordings of all time.^[8] After the album failed, he returned to punk rock with various short-lived projects such as Sprokkett (which also featured Richard 'The Atomic Elf' Bacchus) of D Generation and later, The Spikey Tops.

In 1991, Dee Dee was briefly involved with transgressive punk rock singer-songwriter GG Allin, playing guitar with Allin's backup band The Murder Junkies. His involvement lasted approximately one week, enough for him to be briefly interviewed during the filming of Todd Phillips' Allin documentary Hated: GG Allin And The Murder Junkies. In the film, Dee Dee reveals that he was unaware of the band's name, even after joining. Rehearsal recordings of him with Allin and The Murder Junkies appears on the Hated soundtrack, as well as on the posthumous live Allin compilation Res-Erected. Video footage of the rehearsals is available on DVD through Allin's estate's website.^[9] Dee Dee never actually played a live gig with the band.^[10]

In 1992, Dee Dee formed another short lived project named The Chinese Dragons, which was followed by the most successful of his post-Ramones projects, a group named Dee Dee Ramone I.C.L.C. (Inter-Celestial Light Commune), which lasted from 1994 to 1996. The group featured New York City bassist John Carco (formerly of Queens' hardcore group Misguided) who befriended Dee Dee when the two attended Alcoholics Anonymous meetings together during the summer of 1992. After writing more than a dozen songs and recording several demos for an upcoming Ramones album with producer Daniel Rey, Dee Dee decided to keep the material for his new band. After working with several drummers and playing several live shows in the New York City area, Dee Dee and Carco moved to Amsterdam to record a four song EP and fourteen track album for Rough Trade Records. I Hate Freaks Like You was released on April 17, 1994, featuring Nina Hagen on two of the album's fourteen tracks. The three-piece line up now consisted of Dee Dee (vocals, guitar), Carco (bass, vocals), and Dutch drummer Danny Arnold Lommen.

I.C.L.C. would go on to promote the I Hate Freaks Like You album by touring 22 countries over a 10-month period. During this tour, in November 1994, Dee Dee met 16-year-old Barbara Zampini while searching for his lost guitar outside his hotel in Argentina.^[11] Zampini was a big fan of the Ramones and had been playing bass for two years, heavily influenced by Dee Dee's early work. They later married, and remained together until his death.

In January, 1995, the group had completed their 10-month tour and returned to their headquarters in Amsterdam to begin recording a second album. The group was soon dropped, however, by their record label, Rough Trade World Service. With this development, bassist John Carco left the group and moved to Los Angeles where he began playing with Frankie O. and Pete Stahl. Carco would later pursue an acting career. Songs written by Dee Dee and Carco for the never released second I.C.L.C. album would eventually be recorded by the Ramones on their final album Adios Amigos. One of these songs, Born to Die in Berlin, would ultimately be the final song on the final Ramones' album, and featured Dee Dee singing in German on the bridge of the song.

Dee Dee was also a special guest at the final Ramones' show at The Palace in Los Angeles on August 6, 1996, performing the lead vocals on the song "Love Kills".

Dee Dee formed a Ramones' tribute band called The Ramainz with his wife Barbara ("Barbara Ramone", bass) and former Ramones' member Marky (drums). They recorded an album, Live in NYC, released in Argentina, and played a couple of times with C.J. Ramone.

Dee Dee also recorded several solo albums under his old name Dee Dee Ramone. "Zonked!", the first album release under the Dee Dee Ramone moniker was re-titled "Ain't It Fun?" for the European release, but other than the addition of the bonus track "Please Kill Me", the music is identical. The line up for this album was Dee Dee Ramone on guitars and lead vocals, Marky Ramone on drums, longtime partner Daniel Ray producing and on guitars, and Barbara "Ramone" / Zampini on bass and lead vocals. Guests included Joey Ramone singing lead on "I am seeing UFOs", and The Cramps' vocalist Lux Interior doing the same on "Bad Horoscope".

The second solo-album was called Hop Around; the line-up consisted of Dee Dee Ramone, Barbara Ramone / Zampini, Chris Spedding on guitars and Billy Rogers on drums. Dee Dee also released Greatest and Latest, with Barbara, Spedding and Chase Manhattan on drums. This album consisted of re-recording of Ramones songs, a re-recorded solo song ("Fix Yourself Up", originally from Zonked! / Ain't It Fun?), cover-songs and an unreleased new solo-song ("Sidewalk Surfin'").

In the 21st century, Dee Dee teamed up with Paul Kostabi, leader of the hardcore punk band Youth Gone Mad and former guitarist for White Zombie. An established artist, Kostabi was instrumental in getting Dee Dee's new career as a painter off the ground. Together with Barbara, the trio collaborated on several hundred works that sold quickly for a few hundred dollars each.

On Halloween, 1998, while staying at the Hotel Chelsea, Dee Dee and Zampini met the Hollywood band SEXYCHRIST, which featured adult film star Kurt Lockwood. Lockwood encouraged them to move to Hollywood, and together the two bands shared a successful tour of the U.S. in early 1999. Afterwards, Dee Dee formed The Dee Dee Ramone Band, with members including Christian Martucci (vocals and guitar), Anthony Smedile (drums), Chase Manhattan (drums), and Stefan Adika (bass). With the exception of one show at the Spa Club in NYC and a Club Makeup performance, this would be his last touring band. Dee Dee would release a book, entitled Legend of a Rock Star, A Memoir: The Last Testament of Dee Dee Ramone, written while on tour in Europe in 2001.^[12]

Dee Dee later moved to California where he continued to make music and pursued an acting career. Though largely unsuccessful as an actor, he landed a major role in the 2002 low budget film Bikini Bandits.^[13] He also contributed the song, "In a Movie", to the film's soundtrack, which features his wife Barbara on lead vocals.

His next album—a live album produced by Gilby Clarke (ex-Guns N' Roses), to have been recorded on June 12, 2002 at Hollywood's Key Club—never materialized. Several bootlegs of The Dee Dee Ramone Band exist, including, Live in Milan, Italy. Dee Dee's final studio recordings were released by tREND iS dEAD! records as the 2002 album, Youth Gone Mad featuring Dee Dee Ramone. He also worked with the band Terrorgruppe.

Death[link]

Gravestone at Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Dee Dee Ramone was found dead on the evening of June 5, 2002, by his wife Barbara at his Hollywood, California apartment. An autopsy established heroin overdose as the official cause of death. He had been booked to play a show at the Majestic Ventura Theater, which ended up being a memorial show in his honor.

Dee Dee Ramone is buried at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California, not far from the cenotaph of his former Ramones' bandmate, Johnny Ramone. His headstone features the Ramones seal with the line "I feel so safe flying on a ray on the highest trails above" taken from his song, "Highest Trails Above", from the Ramones' Subterranean Jungle album. At the stone's base is the line "O.K...I gotta go now."

Equipment[link]

Dee Dee Ramone used Ampeg amplification during his entire career with the Ramones.^[14] His preferred bass guitars included:

• Danelectro Bass: Natural, White pickguard, Rosewood fretboard (1974–1975)
• Fender musicmaster bass: red, white pickguard, rosewood fretboard ( 1974–1975 )
• Fender '62 Precision Bass: White, Tortoise pickguard, Rosewood fretboard (1975–1977)
• Fender '75 Precision Bass: Black, Black pickguard, Maple neck (1975–1977)
• Fender '76 Precision Bass: White, Black pickguard (changed to Red), Maple neck (1977–1983) (He used at least 3 such basses).
• Fender '78 Precision Bass: Sunburst, Black pickguard, Maple neck (1982–1983) (He used at least 2 such basses).
• Fender '79 Precision Bass: Black, White pickguard, Maple neck (1983–1988)
• Fender '83 Precision Bass: White, White pickguard, Maple neck (1983–1988)
• ESP Custom Precision Bass: Cream, White pickguard, Rosewood fretboard (1986–1988)
• ESP Custom P-style Bass: Orange w. Spider Graphic, Rosewood fretboard (1986–1989)
• ESP Custom Thunderbird Bass: Yellow w. Chinese Dragon Graphic and "Ramones" lettering, Rosewood fretboard (1988–1989)

Author[link]

Dee Dee Ramone wrote two books: Poison Heart: Surviving the Ramones (aka Lobotomy) and Legend of a Rock Star, a daily journal of commentary on his last, hectic European tour in the spring of 2001.

He also penned a novel, Chelsea Horror Hotel, in which he and his wife move into New York City's famous Hotel Chelsea and believe they are staying in the same room where Sid Vicious allegedly killed his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen. In the book, Ramone is visited by Vicious himself, as well as other dead punk rock friends such as Johnny Thunders, Stiv Bators, and Jerry Nolan.

Memorial book "Rock In Peace: Dee Dee And Joey Ramone" (2004) is composed by Jari-Pekka Laitio-Ramone - (2004) ^[15]

Discography[link]

Ramones

• Ramones (1976)
• Leave Home (1977)
• Rocket to Russia (1977)
• Road to Ruin (1978)
• End of the Century (1980)
• Pleasant Dreams (1981)
• Subterranean Jungle (1983)
• Too Tough to Die (1984)
• Animal Boy (1986)
• Halfway to Sanity (1987)
• Brain Drain (1989)

Solo

• Standing in the Spotlight (1989) (used the name Dee Dee King)
• Chinese Bitch four-song CD EP (1994)
• I Hate Freaks Like You (1994)
• Zonked! (1997)
• Hop Around (2000)
• Greatest & Latest (2000)
• Youth Gone Mad featuring Dee Dee Ramone (2002)
• Too Tough To Die Live in NYC (2003)

References[link]

External links[link]

Biography portal

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