🎭 Culture Jul 4, 2026 · John Doran

Independence Day: How Ramones Changed the World

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Independence Day: How Ramones Changed the World
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Fifty years ago this weekend, Ramones played their first two UK shows, catalysing the British punk scene. Simon Price talks to people who were there, and argues that anyone who dismissed them as cartoon cretins missed the point
Ramones live at the Roundhouse by Gus Stewart / Redferns / Getty
 There comes a moment in every Dolly Parton concert, as cherished as it is predictable, when the country icon reels out her famous scripted off-the-rhinestone-cuff remark: “It costs a lot of money to look th

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