Subscribe to our newsletter. How punk rock drove me to fantastic worlds of slamming and skanking. Joey Ramone, leader of the seminal punk rock band, The Ramones, died on Easter Sunday of lymphatic cancer, at the age of 49. Rolling Stone obituary.
Punk rock is for misfits.
Or at least it used to be. Joey Ramone was not a god, but a point man, really. The Wikker scared everybody's parents. Sure, every once in a while he'd get out of hand and your older brother would have to kick him down the front steps of your house. But that's what he made him so much fun to be with.