The Ramones: If All Men Were Brudders
Cynthia Rose, Creem, September 1983
LONDON – The brothers Ramone – four schlepps whose schleppiness transmogrified the traumas of career adolescence into an entire art form – constitute America's greatest white gift to rock history during the past 10 years.
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