CNN: Johnny Ramone losing Cancer Fight.

[Trajan]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/16/people.ramones.reut/index.html

Report: Johnny Ramone losing cancer fight

Rolling Stone says prostate cancer has spread
Wednesday, June 16, 2004 Posted: 1:42 PM EDT (1742 GMT)


LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- The guitarist with pioneering punk rock band the Ramones is fighting a losing battle with cancer in a Los Angeles hospital, Rolling Stone magazine reported on its Web site on Tuesday.

Johnny Ramone, 55, whose real name is John Cummings, was diagnosed with prostate cancer four years ago, and it has now spread throughout his body, Rollingstone.com quoted the band's drummer, Marky Ramone, as saying.

"Johnny's been a champ in confronting this, but at this point I think the chances are slim," Marky Ramone said in the report. "John never smoked cigarettes, he wasn't a heavy drinker and he was always into his health. It just proves when cancer seeks a body to penetrate, it doesn't matter how healthy you are or how unhealthy you are. It just seeps in and there's nothing you can do."

The Ramones, famed for playing their high-energy, unpolished songs at breakneck speed, rose to fame in New York City in 1974, paving the way for such British punk rock icons as the Sex Pistols and the Clash.

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[Wickerman]

1. that's sad

gawd, the punkers are dying off.

[Trajan]

3. Yeah ....

Especially Ramones band members ...

First Joey, then Dee Dee, now Johnny .... unfuckingbelievable ...

[mr_hat]

2. Awful, awful. Mosrites everywhere just lost tune.

[dbt]

4. There's a banjo or two going out in sympathy!

Bunch a worthless motherfuckers who oughta be dead, but no. The Angel's got to come for Johnny!

:cry:
dbt
My fiddle gently weeps.

[Sapphocrat]

5. Wow, what is this, some sort of Ramones Curse?

I'm still pissed off at Joey for being such a RW dork, but... but...

Geez, there goes my youth, all over again.

P.S. I totally dug Dee Dee.

[Coventina]

6. er, Joey wasn't right wing that I ever heard

after all, he penned "Bonzo Goes to Bittburg" to protest RAY-GUN's salute to fallen Nazis.

On edit: corrected my misuse of the apostrophe!!! I am sooo embarrassed! And it's one of my pet peeves! Argh!

[Sapphocrat]

7. No? In that case...

...I am THRILLED to be wrong! :)

[pocket]

8. Johnny is the right-winger in the band n/t

[stevedeshazer]

9. Correct.

I met him.

[Sapphocrat]

10. Aha! Thank you!

Okay, I will transfer my pissed-offed-ness to Johnny -- while still feeling terrible that he's dying. :(