The Tragic Deaths Of The Ramones

There have been plenty of people in The Ramones over the years, but the original lineup consisted of vocalist Joey (real name: JeffreyHyman), guitarist Johnny (John Cummings), bass player Dee Dee (Douglas Colvin), and drummer Tommy Ramone (Thomas Erdelyi). All of these musicians are dead now, and disturbingly, most of them died within a few

There have been plenty of people in The Ramones over the years, but the original lineup consisted of vocalist Joey (real name: Jeffrey Hyman), guitarist Johnny (John Cummings), bass player Dee Dee (Douglas Colvin), and drummer Tommy Ramone (Thomas Erdelyi). All of these musicians are dead now, and disturbingly, most of them died within a few years of each other, and of similar causes. This wasn't a case of partying too hard and joining the 27 club en masse, either — all of the men made it to middle age, yet died well before the average person.  

As Christina Saraceno of Rolling Stone tells us, frontman Joey Ramone was the first to go before his time. In 2001, the singer lost his battle against lymphatic cancer, at only 49 years old. The very next year, in 2002, it was Dee Dee Ramone's turn. As Jon Wiederhorn of Loudwire notes, the 50-year-old bassist died of a heroin overdose in his Los Angeles home. In 2004, it was guitar player Johnny Ramone's turn, and as Ben Sisario of the New York Times reports, the cause of the 55-year-old musician's death was also cancer, this time of the prostate. Drummer Tommy Ramone lasted quite a bit longer than his bandmates, but as Miriam Coleman of Rolling Stone writes, in 2014, the last of the original Ramones also passed away ... from cancer. What are the odds? 

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