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Gimme Shock Treatment: The Ramones Are Now Mainstream

Luke Torn, The Wall Street Journal, 8 September 2005

THE RAMONES, the godfathers of punk rock, inarguably a cultural institution, split up in 1996 to a collective yawn.

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