“I was young and I had two people in love with me,” she says. “Even when I would say to Johnny, ‘I’m not gonna speak to you anymore,’ he’d wait outside my friend’s house. “There was nothing anyone could do about it,” she says. Linda discusses all this as if the conclusion were out of her control. “The last thing he said to me was, ‘I’m not gonna be able to get rid of Johnny.’ I was like, ‘OK. I just knew there was no way could be together,” Linda remembers. “I don’t know if I ever fell out of love with Joey. He claims to be the one who alerted Joey to Johnny’s feelings about Linda. “Joey was a guy that was very easily intimidated, and John was a guy who was very good at intimidating people,” says Leigh. I know it sounds crazy now, but it didn’t sound crazy then.” “Joey would tell Johnny Johnny would sit down. “Joey and Johnny didn’t speak, and yet Johnny would sit with every night and have dinner,” she says. Linda and Joey stayed together for an awkward year and a half (though never married), during which time they all still toured together in a van, while Johnny did his best to push his way between them. The three decided that no matter what happened, they wouldn’t let it break up the Ramones. “ ‘Johnny gets what Johnny wants’ - Joey started repeating that every day,” Linda says. According to Linda, between the force of Johnny’s personality, Joey’s passive sensitivity and her youth, it was understood that Johnny would set the agenda. “He told Johnny not to talk to me, and Johnny said, ‘You don’t tell me what to do,’ ” Linda recalls. ‘Joey was a guy that was very easily intimidated, and John was a guy who was very good at intimidating people.’ - Joey's brother, Mickey Leigh
Someone alerted Joey to the fact that Johnny was now in love with his girlfriend, and Joey flipped out. “And while that was going on, Johnny decided to fall in love with me.” “Those fights put a weird wedge between us,” Linda says. That blowup was followed by another at Joey’s mother’s apartment. “That’s when he wrote ‘Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want To Fight Tonight).’ ” Joey’s mother went ring-shopping with them, and convinced them to buy a cheaper ring than the one Linda wanted.
Because I was Italian, he would say things about Italians every day.”Ī few years into their relationship, Joey and Linda decided to get engaged. “He liked having a home life, he liked cooking, and I liked all that. Soon Johnny - despite disliking Joey - started joining the couple every night for dinner, and he and Linda became best friends. Johnny, who she says was then in a relationship with an alcoholic, missed this homey quality. Linda loved to cook and celebrate holidays. Getty ImagesĪfter about a year, though, their similarities started to become apparent. Linda Ramone with Johnny in 1994-Linda says she’s not sure she ever fell out of love with Joey, she just knew they couldn’t be together. The first time she got into the band’s van, Johnny, who sat in the first row, said to her, “Your row is the last row.” They became a couple, and when Linda began traveling with the band, Johnny would barely speak to her. This, Linda, now 55, tells The Post, is where the twisted love story began.
A couple of years later, she ran into Joey in Los Angeles and they made plans to meet for Thanksgiving. Linda Ramone, then 16-year-old Linda Danielle from Rosedale, Queens, met the Ramones at CBGB around 1976. The animosity between the now-deceased Ramones (Joey died in 2001 and Johnny in 2004, both from cancer), was caused by their political and personality differences - Joey was a liberal hippie Johnny, a hippie-hating conservative - as well as an insane love triangle. Getty Imagesįrom the moment they met as teenagers in Forest Hills, Queens, Johnny disliked his future bandmate, though they eventually bonded over glam rock and segued together toward punk. Johnny (right, John Cummings) disliked Joey (Jeffrey Hyman) from when they met as teenagers in Forest Hills, Queens. “They weren’t friendly,” says Mickey Leigh, Joey’s brother. Yet, as much as fans adored them, that love did not exist between Ramones Joey (né Jeffrey Hyman) and Johnny (John Cummings). But there’s no question that the Queens band defined the New York arm of the genre. It’s debatable whether the Ramones, whose self-titled debut album came out 40 years ago this month, on April 23, 1976, invented punk rock.
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