Ramones To Receive Grammy
23rd December 2010 The Ramones are to receive a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award. The influential punk rockers will be honoured with the award at an event in Los Angeles on 12 February, a day before the 53rd annual Grammy Awards ceremony is held. Tommy Ramone is the only surviving member of the original line-up after Joey died from lymphatic cancer in 2001, Dee Dee from a drug overdose in 2002, and Johnny from prostate cancer in 2004. The band never won a Grammy Award during their careers. Other recipients at the ceremony will be Julie Andrews, Dolly Parton, jazz drummer Roy Haynes, the Juilliard String Quartet, the Kingston Trio and 101-year-old gospel singer George Beverly Shea.