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Ramone, Dee Dee. Junkie bassist and principal songwriter of the Ramones, né Douglas Colvin, who, more than nice Jewish boy Joey Ramone or arch-Republican Johnny Ramone, came closest to realizing the romanticized ideal of authentic punkness—much as the similarly depraved DENNIS WILSON was the only Beach Boy who really surfed. Neither his OD death just months after his 2002 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nor his sordid past as a rent boy (as chronicled in his tart but unremittingly grisly memoirs, Lobotomy and Legend of a Rock Star, and in the Ramones song “53rd and 3rd”) has deterred today’s garage-punk youngsters from upholding Ramone, along with his pal Johnny Thunders of the New York Dolls, as the coolest people imaginable.