Joey Ramone 'real name Jeffrey Hyman' (singer), Johnny Ramone 'real name John Cummings' (guitar), Dee Dee Ramone 'real name Douglas Glenn Colvin' (bass guitar), and Tommy Ramone 'real name Thomas Erdelyi' (drums)
"Ramone", though none of them were actually related. They performed 2263 concerts, touring virtually nonstop for 22 years. In 1996, after a tour with the Lollapalooza music festival, the band played a farewell show and disbanded. A little more than eight years after the breakup, the band’s three founding members—lead singer Joey Ramone, guitarist Johnny Ramone, and bassist Dee Dee Ramone—were dead. The Ramones were a major influence on the punk rock movement both in the United States and ...