I Know Better Now

By Richie Ramone, Peter Aaron,

Book cover of I Know Better Now: My Life Before, During and After the Ramones

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It's 1982 and the Ramones are in a gutter-bound spiral. Following a run of inconsistent albums and deep in the throes of internal tensions the legendary quartet is about to crash and burn.THEnter Richie Ramone.THThen a 26-year-old from New Jersey named Richard Reinhardt he's snapped up by the group to…

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There are many more books about the Ramones than I have listed or mentioned, from a small tomé about Joey by a Finnish super fan called Heaven Needed a Lead Singer to a 630-page volume (that weighs 5.5 pounds!) by a German super fan. And still this biography took everyone by surprise when it suddenly landed in bookstores five years ago.

Despite playing more than five hundred shows as a Ramone, Richie "has remained a mystery, his tale untold", as the dust jacket has it. Well, not anymore, of course. Now we know who was the only Ramone who had…

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