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Poison Heart: Surviving The Ramones takes the reader on a breakneck tour from a dysfunctional childhood, heroin, punk rock and the heyday of the Ramones to internal wrangling, gruelling tours and methadone clinics. Along the way, Johnny Thunders and Stiv Bators succumb to their addictions, Dee Dee's own girlfriend overdoses, Sid vicious Shoots up with toilet water, and Phil Spector holds the band at gun-point in his Beverly Hills mansion. Hey! Ho! Lets go!

ISBN: 0 946719 48 9
Publication: December 2001

224 pages (illustrated). Paperback

POISON HEART

SURVIVING THE RAMONES

Dee Dee Ramone

"One of the great rock and roll books… This is the true, pathetic, awesome story of The Ramones" ***** Q Magazine

"Kerouac he ain't, but Dee Dee's style has a certain rough-hewn charm, and his story - knee deep in sex , drugs and rock 'n' roll is too incident packed to be anything less than gripping" Mojo

"Poison Heart is like a Richard Price novel: full of delinquency, violence, addiction, brutality and ear splitting rock 'n' roll"
Scott Rowley, The Band

Dee Dee Ramone
Dee Dee Ramone, New York, 1997. Photo: Veronica Kofman

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