Just have to do a day of Ramones music after the death of Tommy Ramone (Thomas Erdelyi), the last of the four founding members, on Friday.
Here’s their first and most iconic hit, “Blitzkrieg Bop,” as performed at Winterland in 1978.
Ed Kilgore is a political columnist for New York and managing editor at the Democratic Strategist website. He was a contributing writer at the Washington Monthly from January 2012 until November 2015, and was the principal contributor to the Political Animal blog.
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