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Marky Ramone

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The Ramones' longest-serving drummer, keeping the two-minute blitz alive with a rotating cast — thirty-plus songs an hour, as the law requires.

Marky Ramone, born Marc Bell in Brooklyn in 1952, played in Dust and then in Richard Hell and the Voidoids before joining the Ramones in 1978, replacing Tommy Ramone. His first album with the band was Road to Ruin. He left in 1983, returned in 1987, and stayed until the group's final shows in 1996, making him the drummer on more Ramones records than anyone else. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the band in 2002.

Since then he has toured with Marky Ramone's Blitzkrieg, a changing lineup that plays Ramones material at close to the original tempo and with very little space between songs.

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