It may surprise younger readers to know that 'the Ramones' isn't just a label on cool t-shirts and accessories that you can pick up at a well-known high street store. A long time ago, they were a wildly popular, highly successful punk rock band!
By far the biggest influence on the punk movement in the United States, here they are at the Old Waldorf club in San Francisco in January 1978, and this is therefore one of the last pictures of the band before original drummer Tommy Ramone left, having become tired of touring. Popular to common belief, none of the band members were related; taking the surname 'Ramone' was a condition of joining the group. Without them, would sales of leather jackets and ripped up jeans ever have hit the same heights? We suspect not!