Editing Joey Ramone (section)

== Early life ==
[[File:Jeff Hyman aka Joey Ramone 2nd grade class picture.jpg|thumb|Ramone 2nd grade class photo 1959 PS196 Queens, NY (back row center)]]
Jeffrey Ross Hyman was born on May 19, 1951, in [[Queens]], New York City, to a [[Jews|Jewish]] family. His parents were Charlotte (''née'' Mandell) and Noel Hyman.<ref>{{cite book
| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c7lgKVmD0yMC&q=Noel+Charlotte+Hyman&pg=PA1
| title=I Slept with Joey Ramone: A Punk Rock Family Memoir – Mickey Leigh – Google Books |date= January 11, 2011
| isbn=978-1-4516-3986-5 |access-date=December 18, 2012|last1=Leigh |first1=Mickey | publisher=Simon and Schuster }}</ref> It has been claimed he was born with a [[parasitic twin]] growing out of his back, which was incompletely formed and surgically removed.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Ramone|first1=Marky|last2=Herschlag|first2=Rich|title=Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life As A Ramone|date=2015|publisher=Music Press Books|page=132}}</ref> The family resided in [[Forest Hills, Queens]],<ref>{{cite news |last= Powers |first= Ann |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/16/arts/joey-ramone-punk-s-influential-yelper-dies-at-49.html |title= Joey Ramone, Punk's Influential Yelper, Dies at 49| work= [[The New York Times]] |date=April 16, 2001 |access-date=June 2, 2009 |quote= Born Jeffrey Hyman in Forest Hills, Queens, Mr. Ramone grew up a sensitive outcast in a bohemian family.}}</ref> where Hyman and his future Ramones bandmates attended [[Forest Hills High School (New York)|Forest Hills High School]]. He grew up with his brother [[Mickey Leigh]]. Though generally a happy person, Hyman was something of an outcast, diagnosed at 18 with [[obsessive–compulsive disorder]] and [[schizophrenia]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Leigh |first1=Mickey |last2=McNeil |first2=Legs |title=I Slept with Joey Ramone - A Family Memoir |date=2009 |publisher=Touchstone |isbn=978-0-7432-5216-4 |pages=75–76}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=McDonald |first1=James |title=Psychiatry rocks – psychiatry in music |journal=British Journal of Psychiatry |date=June 2012 |volume=200 |issue=6 |pages=453 |doi=10.1192/bjp.bp.111.105981 |doi-access=free }}</ref> His striking physique has been attributed to [[Marfan's Syndrome]]<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.bp.111.105981 | doi=10.1192/bjp.bp.111.105981 | title=Psychiatry rocks – psychiatry in music | date=2012 | last1=McDonald | first1=James | journal=British Journal of Psychiatry | volume=200 | issue=6 | page=453 }}</ref> and his health was often frail. His mother, Charlotte Lesher, owned an art gallery in Queens: having divorced her first husband, Noel Hyman, she married again but was widowed when her second husband died in a car accident while she was on vacation.

Hyman was a fan of [[the Beatles]],<ref>{{cite news
| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/1279856.stm
| title=The musical misfits
| work=BBC News
| date=April 16, 2001
| access-date=July 27, 2011}}</ref> [[the Who]], [[David Bowie]], and [[the Stooges]] among other bands, particularly [[oldies]] and the [[Phil Spector]]-produced [[girl group]]s. The Who in particular inspired him when he saw them perform at the age of 16.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/concert-by-the-who-made-joey-ramone-make-music/|title=How one concert made Joey Ramone want to make music|date=October 15, 2021|website=Faroutmagazine.co.uk|access-date=May 19, 2024}}</ref>