The Ramones differed to many of their punk contemporaries, regularly taking on influences from the pop scene of the 1960s within their legendary discography.

And at that time The Beatles were not being discussed, it was a lull in Beatleology. I think we saw this album as a wake-up call. The whole Ramones thing was a wake-up call, because in the early ’70s ...

When I bought the Ramones first album on import, I was enraged with jealousy because I felt they had booted the New York Dolls off the map. I was 100% wrong. Three days after writing that Ramones ...

A number of classic punk rock and related records have appeared on the The Observer's 50 Albums That Changed Music ... The Velvet Underground, The Ramones, The Strokes, NWA, The Beach Boys, Miles ...

While there is a constant debate as to who invented the look and sound of modern punk music, there is no doubt that The ...

and the Irish rockers regularly would play covers of Ramones songs at some of their earliest gigs. When Joey Ramone was on his death bed, Bono gave him a call and was one of the last people to ...