The Ramones were an American punk-rock band from New York that formed in 1974. The band members were, Joey (Jeffrey Hyman), Johnny (John Cummings), Tommy (Thomas Erdelyi), and Dee Dee (Douglas Colvin) Ramone. The original members of the band met in and around the middle-class neighborhood of Forest Hills in the New York City borough of Queens.

Their first album entitled "Ramones" was released in 1976, followed by "Leave Home", and "Rocket To Russia" in 1977. The Ramones disbanded in 2002, after 22 years of touring and recording albums.