10 Amazing Music Movies You Must See Before You Die

3. End Of The Century

Onstage they were more than a band; they were a gang. The uniform? Blue jeans and black leather jackets. The attitude? To hell with everything, let's play music. The surname? Ramone. With three chords and a screw you attitude the Ramones changed the world, shaking the ailing music industry to its core and creating punk rock in the process. They took the rock 'n' roll of old and stripped out everything superfluous. Fearlessly direct, each song was a bullet to the head of the old order and a clarion call for change. With such a radical premise, however, came problems. "They'd stay together but they'd hate each other", states their manager. Indeed, away from the united front presented onstage the Ramones camp was in constant chaos. End Of The Century, directed by Michael Gramaglia and Jim Fields, breaks the music documentary mould of simply worshipping the band and tells the real story with all its heartbreak, horror and hubris. As such it's a rare glimpse into the brutal reality of rock 'n' roll stardom.