“I DON’T CARE ABOUT HISTORY!” So reads the message scrawled on the chalkboard behind Joey Ramone in the video for “Rock ’N’ Roll High School.” In addition to being the theme song to 1979 cult film of the same name, the bouncy anthem appears on the Ramones’ 1980 album, End Of The Century. But the album opens with an equally catchy song that proves the opposite...Joey did care about history. In fact, he was obsessed with it—to the point where it marked a turning point in the band’s own history. “Do You Remember Rock ’N’ Roll Radio?” is Joey’s love letter to the past. Specifically the early 1960s—an era of musical innocence that...
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