![]() “He wanted everyone to go visit his statue. Hollywood Forever Cemetery is the final resting place for everyone from Rudolph Valentino to Chris Cornell (Linda says Armisen has already purchased a plot there), and it has become a tourist attraction for Ramones fans too, because it’s the site of both Dee Dee Ramone’s grave and an eight-foot bronze Johnny Ramone memorial that was inspired by a smaller statue gifted to Johnny by friend Rob Zombie for Christmas. ![]() 11 will feature Fred Armisen, Starcrawler (who recently covered the Ramones’ “Pet Sematary” for the same-named horror flick’s remake), and a presentation of one of Johnny’s favorite films, The Warriors. Past Johnny Ramone Tribute events have included appearances by Billie Joe Armstrong, Morrissey, and X’s John Doe, and this year’s Vincent Gallo-curated, Steve Jones-directed celebration on Aug. Linda ended up being happily married to Johnny Ramone (real name: John Cummings) for 20 years, and for the past 14 years she has celebrated their love and his legacy with an annual tribute concert and movie screening at L.A.’s famous Hollywood Forever Cemetery. I still have the ring, though - and the receipt.” But Christmas ain't the time for breaking each other's hearts. And that was right around Christmastime, obviously. So anyway, the ring was too expensive that I picked, and it became a big thing. No one asked me before about a diamond ring!. Now, why I didn't want a regular-shaped one, I don't know. But in my mind I wanted this heart-shaped. I had no idea, because I never thought about getting a diamond ring in my life. “As the story goes, the ring I wanted was too expensive, so that became a problem. “When me and Joey were going to get engaged, his mom, Charlotte, had come with us to get the engagement ring because she knew someone in the diamond center and was going to get us a discount,” Linda chuckles. Probably the closest that Joey came to making negative references to Linda was via another song he penned about her, “ Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight).” The Ramones’ holiday hit was inspired by their first argument - which took place when Joey and Linda went ring-shopping. Linda Ramone (far left with platinum hair) in the club scene of the Ramones' 1979 film 'Rock 'n' Roll High School.' (Photo: YouTube) Listen, do girls cause trouble? Of course, we all know they do.” That's how you do it, especially if you're a girl. There is not one thing out there that Joey has ever said about me disrespectful or rude, or me about him.” (Joey, whose real name was Jeffrey Hyman, died in 2001 after a seven-year battle with lymphoma.) “We made a pact. “So from that moment on, me and Joey made a pact. Jim Bessman told Joey, and Joey called me up and said, ‘I don't want you doing the interview.’ And I said, ‘Why?’ ‘Because I don't want you to bad-mouth me.’ And I said, ‘I'll never bad-mouth you, if you promise never to bad-mouth me.’ “He was going to do a Ramones book at that time, and Vera Ramone, at that time Dee Dee's wife, was going to do an interview. “I was going to go do this interview with Jim Bessman,” Linda recalls. Linda and Joey actually didn’t speak for several years, but eventually reopened their communication and came to an understanding. Joey Ramone, Johnny Ramone (Photo: Gie Knaeps) … He destroyed the relationship and the band right there,” Joey was later quoted in the book On the Road With the Ramones. While the Ramones didn’t officially call it quits until 1996, it has been reported that Joey and Johnny’s relationship, which had always been strained, was forever damaged, with the two never speaking again. ![]() ![]() Linda subsequently left Joey for Johnny, married Johnny in 1984, and stayed with Johnny until his death from prostate cancer in 2004.˜ Joey and Linda seriously dated for more than three years, and their affair inspired several Ramones classics, including “She’s a Sensation” and “Danny Says.” But when Linda went on the road with the group, she grew close to Joey’s bandmate, Johnny Ramone, and eventually these two “best friends” fell in love. As a teenager, the Queens-born Linda Daniele, now known as Linda Ramone, met the Ramones at New York nightclub CBGB a few years later in Los Angeles, she reconnected with frontman Joey Ramone during the making of the seminal punk quartet’s cult classic film Rock ‘n’ Roll High School (which turns 40 this week), and a romance began. It’s one of the greatest love triangles in all of rock ‘n’ roll. Linda and Johnny Ramone (Photo: Azula Mitchell via Wikimedia Commons)
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