Linda Ramone’s Sherman Oaks bungalow is a temple of technicolor, with its Seussian decor and Hollywood memorabilia leaving no square inch unpigmented. While she’s now lived there for twice as long as she shared it with late husband Johnny Ramone—head honcho of the Ramones, Ur-band of American punk rock—the house also stands as a living vigil, with Linda’s maximal decorative gestures punctuated by Johnny’s jet-black, mop-haired aura of cool.
The living room throws Johnny and Linda’s complementary dynamic into high relief. There you'll find relics like a decommissioned figure from “It’s a Small World After All” and a gilded birdcage gifted by childhood friend Anna Sui, as well as portraits of Johnny by everyone from Shepard Fairey to Dee Dee Ramone.
Ramone, a Queens native, began cultivating a life in color as New York’s glitter-rock scene was yielding to punk rock’s dominant blacks and metallics. “I started going into the city at 15 or 16; [I’d seen] a photo of theand I was like okay, that’s it! But this was already toward the end of glitter-rock,” she recalls. “All of a sudden, [it was all about] CBGB.
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