Full name: Lobotomy: Surviving the Ramones

Author: Dee Dee Ramone Year: 1997 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Music, Non Fiction, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781560252528 1560252529

Lobotomy is a lurid and unlikely temperance tract from the underbelly of rock 'n' roll. Taking readers on a wild rollercoaster ride from his crazy childhood in Berlin and Munich to his lonely methadone-soaked stay at a cheap hotel in Earl's Court and newfound peace on the straight and narrow, Dee Dee Ramone catapults readers into the raw world of sex, addiction, and two-minute songs. It isn't pretty. With the velocity of a Ramones song, Lobotomy rockets from nights at CBGB's to the breakup of the Ramones' happy family with an unrelenting backbeat of hate and squalor: his girlfriend ODs; drug buddy Johnny Thunders steals his ode to heroin, "Chinese Rock"; Sid Vicious shoots up using toilet water; and a pistol-wielding Phil Spector holds the band hostage in Beverly Hills. Hey! Ho! Let's go! Similar books: White Line Fever by Lemmy Kilmister Rotten by John Lydon The Real Frank Zappa Book by Frank Zappa Margrave of the Marshes by John Peel The Living Years by Mike Rutherford I Slept With Joey Ramone by Mickey Leigh Not Dead Yet by Phil Collins Take It Like a Man by Boy George Waging Heavy Peace by Neil Young Light My Fire by Ray Manzarek Stone Alone by Bill Wyman Slash by Slash Cider with Roadies by Stuart Maconie On The Road With The Ramones by Monte A. Melnick Hey Ho Let's Go by Everett True Life by Keith Richards Rod by Rod Stewart Beastie Boys Book by Michael Diamond It's So Easy by Duff McKagan The Heroin Diaries by Nikki Sixx