The album was a modest success, going to #44 US and outselling previous Ramones efforts, but it left the band divided - Joey and Marky loved it, but Dee Dee and Johnny felt traumatized by the experience. The album took about six months to make, which was an eternity by Ramones standards, although most of that time was Spector working without the band. ![]() Spector is often said to have brandished a gun either at this point or at another point in the session, but Marky Ramone tells us that this is overblown - Spector carried a gun but never threatened them with it. When Johnny walked out, Spector ordered him back in, and Johnny retorted, "What you going to do, shoot me?" (this exchange is captured on tape). This guitar note became the stuff of legend when tales were told of Specter making Johnny play it over and over for eight hours. While the original begins with eight seconds of drums, this rendition opens with the sounds of students mulling about at school, a class bell, and a sustained guitar note played by Johnny Ramone. When Spector produced the Ramones End of the Century album, he had them record a new version, employing his "wall of sound" technique. This is the version that was released as a single and included on the film's soundtrack. Despite achieving only limited commercial success, the band was a major influence on the punk rock movement in both the United States and the United Kingdom. They are often cited as the first punk rock group. The band started working with Phil Spector soon after, and Spector "remixed" the song (it sounds to us like he just added echo) for the film. The Ramones were an American rock band that formed in the New York City neighborhood of Forest Hills, Queens, in 1974. The Ramones first recorded this song with producer Ed Stasium, who helmed their previous album Road to Ruin. It was released independently, so it was never big at the box office, but Rock 'N' Roll High School earned an excellent review from the influential movie critics Siskel & Ebert, and quickly gained a cult following. The film is campy in the tradition of Animal House, and it captured the punk attitude of rebellion with a heaping of humor. While they play, Riff hits the plunger and blows up the building as the horrified teachers look on. In the final scene, she leads the students out of the school in apparent surrender, but then introduces the Ramones, who have joined them to perform the song. ![]() A New World Picture Release Track A4 recorded live at the Roxy, Los Angeles Mixed at Media Sound, New York Tracks A1, A2 recorded at Cherokee Recording Studios, Hollywood 1979 Sire Records Company Information from backcover: A5: 1976 & 1977 Stiff Records Ltd. Soles), writes the song in her songwriting class (somehow this school she found so stifling offered a songwriting class and a means for her to work up a professional demo) and plays it to her classmates during gym class.ĭetermined to get the song to her favorite band, the Ramones, she is thwarted by the principal and stages a protest in retaliation, taking over the school with her fellow students. Soundtrack of 'Rock 'N' Roll High School' Featuring The Ramones. In the film, the student, Riff Randell (played by P.
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