10 Music Film Biopics Not Yet Made
#5 - Ramones -I Wanna Be Sedated
Another long-rumoured biopic, The Ramones were at the forefront of bringing punk music from the underground to the masses. Their blistering sets at the likes of New Yorks CBGB became renowned and helped usher in a wave of US punk rock acts, taking the music from the dirty clubs to the mainstream.
The Ramones story, like every great rock n roll tale, is tempered with as much ill-fortune as good with all three founding members now resting in peace. Drink, drugs, death and in-fighting seems to be the recipe for most of the acts populating this list, and The Ramones are no exception.
Touring pretty much consistently for three decades until they disbanded in 1996 obviously took a great toll on The Ramones bodies and minds and their incredible story has been long-touted as a future big screen biopic.
The band were the subject of a 2004 documentary, the release of which almost coincided exactly with the death of Johnny, and the band themselves appeared in the 1979 comedy Rock N Roll High School which, incidentally has a pat-wettingly good soundtrack.
Given the trend of recent years to wear Ramones t-shirts even people whove never heard a track, now seems like the perfect time to bring the story of a band that spent so much time underground very much above ground and right into your local multiplex.