JOEY RAMONE BIRTHDAY BASH 2006:
A TRADITION CONTINUES
SIXTH ANNUAL CONCERT SLATED FOR MAY 19, 2006

Here's the official press release...

The date for the sixth annual JOEY RAMONE BIRTHDAY BASH has been announced: the event will take place at famed New York City venue Irving Plaza on what would have been JOEY's 55th birthday: Friday, May 19, 2006. Tickets began selling in November 2005, when word leaked out via the message board on the JOEY RAMONE website, www.joeyramone.com. Last year's BASH sold out two weeks before the performance line-up was even announced. Now, everyone can purchase tickets at www.ticketmaster.com and www.irvingplaza.com

The first JOEY RAMONE BIRTHDAY BASH was held just one month after the rock star lost his seven-year battle with lymphoma in April 2001. Living up to a promise made to the singer to celebrate his 50th birthday, JOEY's mother Charlotte Lesher and brother Mickey Leigh organized an all-star rock and roll party and have continued the tradition annually. All proceeds are donated to the Lymphoma Research Foundation.

Customarily, the BIRTHDAY BASH features musical performances by a bevy of internationally acclaimed and up-and-coming artists, as well as screenings of rare and exclusive videos of JOEY and The Ramones. This year's roster of participants has not yet been revealed but is expected to be as exciting and stellar as any before.

Additionally, plans are being made for a special exhibition and sale of photographs by some of rock and roll's best photographers, to run for several days prior to the BIRTHDAY BASH at a gallery in Manhattan. Details will be forthcoming.

Tickets for the 2006 JOEY RAMONE BIRTHDAY BASH are $25. Admission to the show is 16 years of age and up; doors open at 8PM and the festivities will begin at 9PM. Irving Plaza is located at 17 Irving Place, on the corner of 15th Street and Irving Place. The club can easily be reached by subway (trains 4, 5, 6, L, N, Q, R, and W to Union Square, also referred to as 14th Street).

Information will shortly be announced revealing the line-up of performers as well as the names of sponsors for this year's event. For press information, please contact ISL Public Relations, 212-541-7595, rsvp@islpr.com For updates and further information, visit www.joeyramone.com.

Joey Ramone Geburtstags Party 2006. Am 19. Mai 2006 setzt sich eine Tradition das sechte mal fort

Hier die offizielle Pressemeldung: Die sechste Joey Ramone Geburtstagsparty wird zu seinem fünfunffünfzigsten Geburtstag im famosen "Irving Plaza" in New York City am 19. Mai 2006 stattfinden. Eintrittskarten werden seit November 2005 nach Ankündigung im Nachrichtenbereich auf seiner offiziellen Seite www.joeyramone.com verkauft. Letztes Jahr war die Veranstaltung bereits zwei Wochen vor Bekanntgabe der mitwirkenden Musiker/Bands ausverkauft. Noch können Karten bei www.ticketmaster.com und www.irvingplaza.com ergattert werden.

Die erste JOEYS GEBURTSTAG PARTY wurde nur einen Monat nachdem der Rockstar seine Schlacht mit Lymphknotenkrebsim April 2001 verloren hatte abgehalten. Um einer dem Sänger gemachten Versprechung seinen 50. Geburtstag zu feiern entsprechend gerecht zu werden, organisierten die Mutter von Joey CHARLOTTE LESHER und Bruder Mickey Leigh eine All Star Rock 'n' Roll Party. Diese ist bereits zur Tradition geworden und wurde Jährlich widerholt. Der ganze Erlös wird der Lymphknotenkrebs Erforschung gestiftet.

Gewöhnlich zeigt die Joeys Geburtstagsparty Musikldarbietungen einer Schar Internationaler altbekannter und aufstrebender Künstler, sowie seltener und exklusiven Videos mit  Joey und den Ramones in den Hauptrollen.  Mitwirkende Künstler und Inhalte wurden bisher noch nicht gennant, werden aber garantiert genauso überraschent und spannend sein wie all die letzten Jahre.

Zusätzlich ist eine mehrtägige spezielle Ausstellung mit Verkauf von Werken der besten Joey Ramone und Ramones Fotographen in einer Gallerie in Manhatten geplant. mehr demnächst hier.

Eintrittskarten für den JOEY RAMONE BIRTHDAY BASH 2006 kosten 25$. Zutritt der Veranstaltung ist ab 16 Jahren. Einlass ist um 20.00Uhr, ab 21.00 Uhr beginnen die Festivitäten. Der Veranstaltungsort  "Irving Plaza" ist in 17 Irving Place, an der Ecke der 15ten Strasse und dem Irving Place. Der Club kann einfach erreciht werden mit folgenden U-Bahnlinien (Zugnummer 4, 5, 6, L, N, Q, R, und W zu  Union Square, oder zur 14ten Strasse).

Weitere Informationen über die Aufstellung von Darstellern sowie die Namen von Fördererndes Ereignisses werden kurzfristig bekanntgegeben. Bezüglich Presseinformationen, setzen Sie sich bitte mit ISL Public Relations, +1-212-541-7595, rsvp@islpr.com in Verbindung. Für Aktualisierungen und weitere Information besuchen Sie www.joeyramone.com oder diese Seite wieder.

Joey Ramone's signature bleat was the voice of punk rock in America.

Sporting a leather jacket and torn jeans (like his bandmates) and hiding his face behind a pair of sunglasses and a thick shock of dark hair, the lanky Ramone helped define punk's early image as well and his two-decade-plus tenure as frontman of the Ramones made him a countercultural icon.
Ramone was born Jeffrey Hyman on May 19, 1951 (though he frequently claimed the year was 1952) in Forest Hills, part of the Queens section of New York City. Rock & roll gave the teenaged Joey Ramone an escape from his parents' divorce and he began playing in glam-influenced bands in the early '70s. He co-founded the Ramones in 1974 with friends John Cummings and Douglas Colvin, upon which point all three adopted Ramone as their stage surname. Joey Ramone initially served as the group's drummer before switching to vocals and having his former spot taken by manager Tommy Erdelyi. The Ramones quickly became regulars at the Bowery club CBGB's and their brief, rapid-fire concert style became the stuff of legend. When the Ramones recorded their debut album in 1976, it heralded the true birth of punk rock; although groups like the Stooges, MC5, and New York Dolls laid the groundwork, the Ramones' hooky, three-chord songwriting, cheerfully dumb humor, and boundless energy created the blueprint that countless punk bands would follow in the decades to come. Their 1976 tour of the U.K. helped ignite that country's punk scene as well and their impact on American music was never more apparent than in the '90s, when a legion of punk-pop bands who never could have existed without the Ramones' music took that sound to the top of the charts.

Despite their enormous influence, a career that spanned two decades, and a handful of undisputedly classic albums, the Ramones never became stars in their own right — even though the sound they'd pioneered came to dominate popular music during most of the '90s and even though the band recorded during that decade with a newly clean and sober focus. After touring with the 1996 Lollapalooza festival, the Ramones concluded that the stardom they'd always coveted was never to be and they disbanded before the end of the year. Despite having released the collaborative EP In a Family Way with his brother Mickey Leigh in 1994 (under the name Sibling Rivalry), Joey Ramone largely shunned the spotlight following the breakup. He did make occasional public appearances and worked for a time as a radio DJ; toward the end of the decade, he also began working sporadically on a solo record. He assembled a band featuring guitarist Daniel Rey, bassist Andy Shernoff (ex-Dictators), and drummer Frank Funaro (Cracker) and played several gigs in the New York area. Sadly, before the record could be completed, Ramone succumbed to lymphatic cancer on April 15, 2001; he was 49 years old.

More Infos you will get on his official webpage here.