In his Village Voice obituary , Lenny Kaye wrote that The music he played was beloved in garages in any part of the world where the guitar was revered as a magical totem. It was like a quick fuck against a brick wall in an alley behind a Bowery club. On Monday April 30, Joey s brother, Mike Leigh , will host a tribute at CBGBs where The Ramones first played in 1974. Doors open at 7-7.30.
Admission is free.
You should also read John Holmstrom s obit in Punk Magazine along with an article on The Ramones written by Richard Hell for Hit Parader in 1976 when the band were still unsigned. The light has gone out of New York rock and roll. They will be published for the first time next year. Emma Hartley and Vanessa Thorpe write in The Guardian that Details of Larkin's two previously unseen erotic novellas, Trouble at Willow Gables and Michaelmas Term at St Bride's , have emerged as the manuscripts are being prepared for publication next spring. The gender of the writer isn't as clear cut as it should be, says James Booth, the Hull University English academic who uncovered the novellas inside the library where Larkin used to work as chief librarian.