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Notes on Minimalism (or Learning To Live With The Ramones)

Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 21 May 1977

THERE'S BEEN A LOT of loose talk, and it has got to stop. Ever since The Ramones blundered into the blinding spotlight of international rock and roll notoriety, people have been going around assuming that their lineage goes directly back through the Dolls, The MC5, The Who and what have you.

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