Editing Joey Ramone (section)

== Illness and death ==
[[File:Joey Ramone Headstone.jpg|right|thumb|Headstone for Ramone with fan tributes]]In 1995, Ramone was diagnosed with [[lymphoma]]. He kept his condition private until it was revealed on March 19, 2001, that he was battling the disease.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=107992&page=1|title=Joey Ramone Battling Cancer|website=ABC News|date=March 21, 2001}}</ref> He died of the illness at [[New York-Presbyterian Hospital]] on April 15, 2001, aged 49.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=106658&page=1|title=Joey Ramone Dies of Cancer|website=ABC News|date=April 17, 2001}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.joeyramone.com/news_08.html| title= Notice of Joey Ramone's death| website= joeyramone.com| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090415070718/http://www.joeyramone.com/news_08.html |archive-date=April 15, 2009 }}</ref> He was reportedly listening to the song "[[In a Little While]]" by [[U2]] when he died.<ref>{{cite web| last= Kaufman| first= Gil| url= http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1442817/04152001/ramones.jhtml| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20030805030147/http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1442817/04152001/ramones.jhtml| title= Pioneer Joey Ramone Dead At 49| website=[[VH1]].com |date= April 15, 2001| archive-date= August 5, 2003}}</ref> In an interview in 2014 for [[Radio 538]], U2 lead singer [[Bono]] stated that Joey Ramone's family had told him this; later, Joey's friend  Andy Shernoff (of [[The Dictators]]) also confirmed it.<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.stillinrock.com/2016/01/interview-still-in-rock-andy-shernoff.html | first= Andy| last= Shernoff| title= Interview Still in Rock: Andy Shernoff (The Dictators)| work= Still in Rock| date= January 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite video|people=U2|title=Elevation 2001: Live from Boston|medium=DVD|publisher=Island/Interscope|location=Boston, Massachusetts |date=2001}}</ref> Joey's funeral was attended by former bandmates Tommy, Richie and C. J. Ramone, along with [[Debbie Harry]] and [[Chris Stein]] of [[Blondie (band)|Blondie]], and [[Joan Jett]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=NME |date=April 18, 2001 |title=JOEY RAMONE LAID TO REST |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/ramones-64-1395426 |access-date=July 17, 2022 |website=NME |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Bowe |first=Brian J. |title=The Ramones |publisher=Enslow Publishing, LLC |year=2019 |isbn=978-1-978504-10-3 |location=New York |pages=82 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Features |first=Dan Alleva |title=Richie Ramone—Too Tough to Die |url=https://www.theaquarian.com/2019/09/11/richie-ramone-too-tough-to-die/ |access-date=July 17, 2022 |website=The Aquarian |language=en-US}}</ref> Joey is interred at New Mount Zion Cemetery in [[Lyndhurst, New Jersey]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Stanton|first=Scott|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55018950|title=The tombstone tourist : musicians|date=2003|publisher=Pocket Books|isbn=0-7434-6330-7|edition=2nd|location=New York|oclc=55018950}}</ref><ref name= nyt1>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/28/nyregion/sometimes-the-grave-is-a-fine-and-public-place.html|title=Sometimes the Grave Is a Fine and Public Place| newspaper=The New York Times|date=March 28, 2004}}</ref>

His solo album ''[[Don't Worry About Me]]'' was released posthumously in 2002, and features the single "[[What a Wonderful World]]", a cover of the [[Louis Armstrong]] standard. [[MTV]] News said: "With his trademark rose-colored shades, black leather jacket, shoulder-length hair, ripped jeans and alternately snarling and crooning vocals, Joey was the iconic godfather of punk."<ref name="MTV News">{{cite web|last=Kaufman |first=Gil |url= http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1442817/20010415/story.jhtml |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20010820020754/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1442817/20010415/story.jhtml |url-status= dead |archive-date= August 20, 2001 |title=Punk Pioneer Joey Ramone Dead at 49 | website= MTV.com |date= April 15, 2001 |access-date=July 27, 2011}}</ref>