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city: flushing, queens

birchwood towers

from joey ramone, the ramones posted in music by donkeyoti

Joey Ramone lived at these apartments with his mother and brother. He recalls the experience as being an influence for the song "Beat on the Brat":

"There was a playground with women sitting around and a kid screaming, a spoiled, horrible kid just running around rampant with no discipline whatsoever. The kind of kid you just want to kill. You know, 'beat on the brat with a baseball bat' just came out. I just wanted to kill him."- Joey Ramone

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