MY RAMONES: DANNY FIELDS
Rare and never before-seen photographs of the Ramones compiled in collaboration with Danny Fields, the band’s first manager, is released in April documenting the bands early career.
Fields first saw the Ramones play at CBGBs in New York; after a 17 minute set, he met with the four founding members and told them that he wanted to be their manager.
“I had to bribe them with $3000 which they said they needed for a new set of drums. I went to Florida, asked my mother to lend me the money, came back with her cheque, and got the job. I photographed the band on tour, backstage, in the studio, walking around, meeting fans, seeing the sights and just checking things out”.
The images are chosen from his extensive personal archive and feature the four founding members of the Ramones taken between 1975 – 1977 when Fields co-managed them with Linda Stein and had unique access to the band. The photos are accompanied with commentary and captions by Fields adding new perspective and insight to one of the best-known bands in recent music history.
As well as being a journalist, editor, disc jockey, photographer, manager, publicist and record executive throughout his musical tenure Fields was part of the The Factory crowd. Once acting as the publicist for The Doors, Danny’s career flourished. He went on to work for Elektra Records, and was responsible for discovering and managing The Ramones, MC5 and Iggy and The Stooges.
The book will be published on 27th April 2016 as a hardback limited edition of 1300 numbered books. Two options are available – a standard version of 1000 copies retailing at £40 and a ‘special’ edition of 300 copies which will include a previously unpublished signed and numbered 10”x7.5” print from Fields’ archive retailing at £70, sold exclusively via First Third Books website.
