I'm no diehard punk and I never was. In fact, I've never heard a Ramones album all the way through. But nonetheless, I know my music history, and therefore, I am saddened by the lack of mainstream attention given to the death of Joey Ramone. The Ramones kickstarted rock n roll just like the Beatles had ten years previous, and yet Joey Ramone's death has been relegated to a three-liner on the entertainment news pages while hippie-cum-yuppies still fawn over John Lennon, his thirty-year old piano, his drug-addled poetry and happily devote scores of column inches to his memory even twenty years after his death.