![]() To be fair, the set's opening numbers - Rockaway Beach, Teenage Lobotomy, Blitzkrieg Bop - were met with applause and cheers. As known friends of the Pistols, the Ramones were damned by association. When news of the indictment spread, venues across the country began cancelling scheduled punk shows and radio stations pulled punk singles from their playlists. That impression only intensified when, on October 12, 1978, Nancy Spungen, the 20-year-old girlfriend of Pistols' bassist Sid Vicious, was found with a fatal stab wound in the couple's room at New York's Hotel Chelsea: the English musician was subsequently arrested and charged with second-degree murder. To make matters worse, in the eyes of the American music industry, following the Sex Pistols' disastrous debut US tour, punk rock was now viewed as tainted and toxic. ![]() However, it had failed to break into the business end of the Billboard 200 chart, peaking at number 103. If the new album isn’t a hit, I’m gonna kill myself."Īt the time, the estimated worldwide sales for Road To Ruin, the quartet's fourth studio album, were nudging north of 250,000 units sold. "I want to draw more people to the shows, make something happen. "I‘m sick of not selling records," vocalist Joey Ramone bluntly admitted to writer Timothy White. ![]() ![]() When Rolling Stone magazine went on the road in America with the Ramones in the autumn of 1978, it found the Forest Hills, New York quartet tiring of both their own cult status and the punk scene's nihilistic, self-destructive reputation. ![]()
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