Editing Dee Dee Ramone (section)

==Early life and family==
Douglas Glenn Colvin was born on September 18, 1951, in [[Fort Lee (Virginia)|Fort Lee, Virginia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://digilander.libero.it/Devil_Loser/DDR.jpg |title=DDR.jpg |access-date=July 20, 2011}}</ref> He was the son of an American soldier and a German woman. As an infant, his family relocated to [[West Berlin]], [[West Germany]], due to his father's military service. His father's military career also required the family to relocate frequently. As a result of these frequent moves, Douglas had a lonely childhood with few real friends. His parents separated during his early teens and he remained in Berlin until the age of 15 when he, along with his mother and sister Beverley, moved to [[Forest Hills, Queens]], New York, in order to escape Dee Dee's alcoholic father.<ref>Pareles, Jon. [https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/07/arts/dee-dee-ramone-pioneer-punk-rocker-dies-at-50.html "Dee Dee Ramone, Pioneer Punk Rocker, Dies at 50"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', June 7, 2002. Accessed June 17, 2009. "Tony Colvin moved her children to New York in the late 1960s. They settled in Forest Hills, Queens, where Douglas met the future members of the Ramones, described in ''Lobotomy'' as 'the obvious creeps of the neighborhood.'"</ref> There, he met [[Johnny Ramone|John Cummings]] and [[Tommy Ramone|Thomas Erdelyi]] (later dubbed Johnny and Tommy Ramone), then playing in a band called the Tangerine Puppets, named after a [[Donovan]] song.

Bassist [[Galactic Cowboys#Monty Colvin|Monty Colvin]] from the [[progressive metal]] band [[Galactic Cowboys]] is one of Dee Dee's cousins.