Surrounded by Ramones artifacts, like a Zippy the Pinhead costume and an armadillo doodle drawn by Joey, Billboard spoke with Linda Ramone and tour manger Monte Melnick, and separately with Seymour Stein and his daughter Mandy, to get their reflections of this trailblazing and endearing-if a little nutty-band. "He said, 'I'd rather be here doing my legacy myself, but if I had to pick one person, I'd pick you.'" For Linda, this has meant hosting annual tributes at L.A.s Hollywood Forever Cemetery where Johnny's memorial statue resides and overseeing her late husband's estate and vast trove of memorabilia which once included baseball and horror relics as well as Ramones keepsakes spanning the band's 22-year career and 2,263 shows. Grammy Museum, which last weekend opened its new exhibition "Hey! Ho! Let's Go: Ramones and the Birth of Punk," (after debuting at the the Queens Museum last April). Ramones widow, Linda, are among the many artists that have donated items and experiences to a new online charity auction benefiting the Grammy Museum. "When Johnny was dying, he left me his legacy," Linda says from the L.A. Jeffrey Hyman) for three-and-a-half years before leaving him for guitarist and band mastermind Johnny Ramone (born John Cummings) adding another thick layer of tension to the band's well-documented dysfunction. LIVE and the Queens Museum, in collaboration with Ramones. The two-part exhibition, co-curated by the GRAMMY Museum at L.A. 21, 2016, where the second part will debut at the GRAMMY Museum in Los Angeles. The exhibit commemorates the 40th anniversary of the release of the Ramones’ 1976 self-titled debut album and shows the band’s status in the context of music history and pop culture. Ho Lets Go: Ramones and the Birth of Punk will open on April 10, 2016, at the Queens Museum in New York. She was not only a fan who witnessed some of the band's earliest gigs at CBGBs, but she would also date singer Joey Ramone (a.k.a. LIVE and Delta Air Lines present Hey Ho Let’s Go: Ramones and the Birth of Punk opening on Friday, Sept. Ramones 40th Anniversary Targets Retail and Museums With Marketing Blitzkriegįor Linda Ramone, too, the band is a family affair - only literally. Daughter Mandy Stein, who has known the Ramones since she was a toddler, would direct the documentary Gabba Gabba Heyday! in addition to films on CBGBs and the Bad Brains. (The Ramones were honored with The Recording Academys Lifetime. His ex-wife, the late Linda Stein, was the first in the family to see the band live and would soon after co-manage them with music impresario Danny Fields.
She’s about five feet tall and possesses the reddest hair you’ve ever seen. But he wasn't the first or last Stein to be so inspired by the Ramones. The widow of the late Ramones guitarist Johnny Ramone arrives at the foyer in a fur coat. "I'd do anything for the Ramones," says Stein, who upon first seeing the four "cretins" from Forest Hills, Queens perform in 1976 promptly signed them to his Sire Records label. Linda Ramone, widow of Johnny Ramone, poses in front of a wall-sized photo of the band, with Johnny on the far left.
But the legendary music exec, co-founder of Sire Records and Rosedale, Queens native are inextricably linked by their ties to a band who not only changed their lives, but millions of others, too. On the surface, Seymour Steinand the former Linda Marie Daniele would seem to have little in common beyond their thick, outer-borough accents.
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