Missed that one I was waiting to be born and wishing I was seeing the Ramones.
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Talking Heads made their debut at New York's CBGB's night club in 1976, opening for the Ramones.
After forming in 1975 The Boomtown Rats played early UK shows with The Ramones and Talking Heads.
The Ramones' "Merry Christmas, I Don't Want to Fight Tonight" finds the punk pioneers getting in the party spirit.
You know, I saw the Ramones in concert in 1980 in Ann Arbor.
Except for this: It's too bad it couldn't have been the Ramones.
Spector is said to have pulled guns on artists including The Ramones, John Lennon, Leonard Cohen, Stevie Wonder and his former wife Ronnie.
He kept the Ramones anchored to his original vision while other acts climbed the charts, went mainstream and then disintegrated in recrimination and accusations of selling-out.
After their last concert in 1996, the Ramones' reputation grew.
Sure, we already knew of bands like The Ramones and The Sex Pistols, but we never thought they would form the soundtrack to our fight against the polyester dancers.
When Joe Strummer, the lead singer of the Clash, approached the Ramones after seeing them play in 1976, he was worried that his band's musicianship was still too rough for them to begin performing.
More recently, The Blockley was the home of The Chestnut Club, a popular venue in the 1980s and 90s for iconic acts such as The Ramones, Violent Femmes, Iggy Pop, De La Soul, Nirvana and the Dave Matthews Band.
Groups like the Ramones and the Voidoids, following the design lead of the Sex Pistols in England, embraced a graphics style of rough hand lettering or cut and pasted collages, abandoning expensive typesetting for a random, "amateur" look.
Eye contact happens often and when a toddler in a Ramones T-shirt pauses to perform a wobbly dance in front of a lone saxophonist crooning a melancholy rendition of La Vie en Rose above 20th Street, walkers stop, smile and soak it in.
"Off the top of my head, two other songs that I can immediately think of with this type of lyric are 'Hey, hey, you, you get off of my cloud' by the Rolling Stones and 'Hey little girl I want to be your boyfriend' by the Ramones, " she said.
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