I don’t wanna have to shout it out
I don’t want my hair to fall out
I don’t wanna be filled with doubt
I don’t wanna be a good boy scout
I don’t wanna have to learn to count
I don’t wanna have the biggest amount
I don’t wanna grow up

—-The Ramones, ‘I don’t wanna grow up’

What is it with the fucking Ramones?

First Joey, dead of cancer in 2001 at 50.

Then Dee Dee, dead of a drug OD, at 49.

And now — does goes Johnny Ramone. Dead of cancer, at 55.

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