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Last survivor of The Ramones punk band dies
Drummer Tommy Ramone, the last surviving founding member of the pioneering punk band The Ramones, has died, the band announced on social media Saturday
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rummer Tommy Ramone, the last surviving founding member of the pioneering punk band The Ramones, has died, the band announced on social media Saturday.
Born Erdelyi Tamas in Budapest, Tommy Ramone died Friday at his New York home following treatment for cancer, the entertainment magazine Variety reported. He was 62.
'We are saddened to announce the passing of Ramones founding drummer Tommy (Erdelyi) Ramone,' the band said on its Twitter feed.
The four original members, who all took on the last name Ramone, formed the band in the mid 1970s and emerged as a fixture of the New York punk underground.
'The Ramones revitalized rock and roll at one of its lowest ebbs, infusing it with punk energy, brash attitude and a loud, fast new sound,' reads the band's biography in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Tommy Ramone, who 'anchored the frantic beat with superhuman energy,' surrendered his drumsticks to a new drummer, Marky Ramone, in 1978, but remained as the band's co-producer and advisor through 1984.
Lead vocalist Joey Ramone died in 2001, bass guitarist and vocalist Dee Dee Ramone died in 2002, and guitarist Johnny Ramone died in 2004.
