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MOVIES: With another version of Hairspray hitting the big screen this summer, it seems to be a season of decades past and, of course, hair! Movies With a View brings back the musical tale of Central Park hippies, small town boys headed to Vietnam and the '60s as they show the film Hair tonight.

In the past we've told you about New York album art from The Doors, Bob Dylan, The Ramones and more. You can read the past posts here, and now we move on to The Allman Brothers Band: Live at Fillmore East.

Just listening to a lot of records, getting emotional about them, falling in love with them.

The owner of an art gallery that works with George DuBose (as a dealer of his photographs) emailed us to clarify the debate that was going on in the comments of this post. That debate being: was the cover of The Ramones Subterranean Jungle a real photo, or the handywork of a retoucher?

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The Notorious MSG, Original Chinatown Bad Boys

# "The Boxer" by Simon and GarfunkelHowever, it's also a little alarming when you find out that Kenny G has penned a song called "Tribeca." Check out some of our other favorite Wikipedia NYC pages: official NYC page, list of NYC lists page, and NYC travel page from WikiTravel.

If you plan on hitting the clubs next week and taking part in the annual CMJ music binge, why not use the coming days to rest up, get some sleep and save your pennies? A week of rest woudln't hurt, would it?

Here's the Ramones' official website. Joey died in 2001, Dee Dee died in 2002, and now drummer Tommy is the only surviving original Ramone (Coolfer pointed out to us "second drummer Marky is still alive, as is second bass player CJ"). The Ramones were boys from Queens, and there was an NPR piece about John Langford going to Queens to find Joey's ghost. A street in the East Village is named "Joey Ramone Place" - we'll see if another part is named after Johnny. And there's a Ramones documentary, End Of The Century, out now [read a review from Salon].

Rodgers & Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim….and The Ramones?

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