Famous Fans

Slash from Guns N' Roses has stated that he learned to play guitar by listening to Road to Ruin.
Notorious American radio personality Howard Stern was an avid Ramones fan, having them on both his radio and TV shows numerous times. He also named their song "Pet Sematary" the best song of 1989.
Horror novelist Stephen King was also a fan of the band, mentioning them in his books Danse Macabre (1979) and Pet Sematary (1983), also writing the introduction in the jacket to the tribute album "We're A Happy Family." The band then did the theme song for the film version of Pet Sematary.
Pearl Jam's seventh album "Riot Act" was dedicated to Dee Dee Ramone, John Entwistle and Ray Brown.
Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day dedicated the song "Wake Me Up When September Ends" to Johnny Ramone on the first three legs of the American Idiot Tour. Green Day also used "Blitzkrieg Bop" as the song that introduced them on stage.
Tre Cool (The drummer from Green Day) is quoted as saying "The world is a better place because of Joey Ramone" and named his daughter Ramona after the Ramones.
When Joey died, The Misfits removed their own content from their website and replaced it with a picture of Joey. Social Distortion did likewise, displaying a photograph of Mike Ness and Joey Ramone as tribute they even did a Ramones Tribute Concert.
On the following day, Bono from U2 made a speech about Joey and the Ramones. The band, which was on tour at the time, dedicated the song "In A Little While" to Joey Ramone for the rest of the tour, after learning that it was the last song he had listened to on his deathbed.
Jello Biafra pays tribute to the Ramones on his spoken word album Machine Gun in the Clown's Hand. Biafra cites how the Ramones personally influenced him by being less high falutin and actually talking to their fans after shows. Also by their relentless touring of small town, middle America, including Biafra's home town Boulder, Colorado.
Bruce Springsteen was a fan of the band, and wrote the song Hungry Heart for them in 1979, but his manager persuaded him to keep the song for himself (it appeared on The River, and was a hit single).
Attaque 77, one of the most important Argentine punk bands, have said that they started the band to play Ramones songs.
Rob Zombie has often talked about his love for the Ramones. He produced the Ramones tribute album We're a Happy Family and performed the song Blitzkrieg Bop on the album.
Morrissey has spoken of the band as one of his all-time favourites and included the song "Judy Is A Punk" on the compliation album "Under The Influence" which featured some of his most-loved songs.
Henry Rollins, Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam, Rob Zombie, Tim Armstrong of Rancid and The Transplants,Flea and Red Hot Chilli Peppers, and Mark Hoppus of Blink-182 and Plus 44 appeared at The Ramones 30th Anniversary Birthday Party in 2004.
Mark Hoppus of Blink-182 and Plus 44 quotes "The Ramones came out at a time when music wasn't being done like that, and they came out with three-chord pop-punk just played exactly the way they wanted it to be. Without the Ramones, there wouldn't have been three generations of great punk rock music, and there certainly wouldn't have been a Blink-182."
When Joey died, Lemmy of Motörhead posted a picture of Joey with a tribute to him.
When Billy Idol was performing a live version of Ready Steady Go and he said , smiling, that "this one's for Joey Ramone," as he played one of the best-known songs by Generation X, the punk rock band that gave him his start in the late '70s. Billy Idol also appears on The Ramones documentary Hey Is Dee Dee Home?
In 2002 the famous progressive metal band Tool (band) performed the song Commando in a New York concert dedicating the song to Joey & Dee Dee.
Glen Matlock the origianl Bass Guitar player for The Sex Pistols was influenced by The Ramones and appears in The Ramones' Documentary End Of The Century.
The Clash frontman Joe Strummer told Johnny Ramone while The Ramones were on tour in London England that "We're The Clash and The Sex Pistols any you are responsible for making us start a band!" It appeared in the Documentary End Of The Century