Greazy Will

He pulled a gun on the Ramones and didn't let them leave the studio.

I don't know how I missed that one.

That's a big... So the Ramones are recording Rock and Roll High School and Phil is brought in to record them.

And he pulls a gun on the whole band and says, you're not leaving until you get the song right.

Right?

Some members of the band later deny it, but Joey Ramone said it happened.

So it's like, but yes.

So Joey Ramone definitely, they probably in the studio were like, hey, so Phil crazy, right?

Fuck.

That guy, that guy was a nut, right?

You know, I'm sure they had some memories that they shared.

In the 1990s and 2000s, Ronnie experienced a long overdue reprisal.

As rock history began to properly credit girl groups and female vocalists, her influence became undeniable.

Be My Baby was canonized as one of the most important pop recordings ever made.

And Ronnie herself was recognized not just as Phil Spector's muse, but as a single irreplaceable voice.

She reunited with the Ronettes for selective performances and released new music on her own terms and became a beloved figure among younger musicians who saw her both as a pioneer and a survivor.

Oh yeah.

Her 1990 memoir, Be My Baby, was especially important, breaking decades of silence and reframing her story as one of endurance rather than victimhood.

I will tell you this book she wrote is tremendous.

She deserves every ounce of credit for being a survivor that she is because she looks at all this stuff the same way I look at like surviving the Iraq war, you know, where it's like,