Our Blessed Lady of the Ramones, gob on us...

Jersey Beat takes great pride in remembering and paying tribute to the Ramones, especially Joey, whose tragic death from cancer happened on this day eight years ago. To help mark the occassion, friends, regulars, and a few guestd here at Jersey Beat HQ share their most vivid memories and confess to their most tumutuous passions inspired by Joey, John, Tommy, and Dee Dee. Our cast of orators includes the zany Rev. Norb, the learned Jim DeRogatis of the Chicago Sun-Times, a good friend of Joey who you might know from his many columns in Maximumm RnR, George Tabb; and Jersey Beat stalwarts Phil Rainone, Chris Mattern, and Jim Testa

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