VERY RARE, Ramones "Sheena Is A Punk Rocker" UK 1ST PRESSING Sire 45 1977 7" VTG
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VERY RARE & VINTAGE- Ramones "Sheena is a punk rocker/Commando/I don't care" Sire 45 rpm (RAM 001), 1977.
Purchased in Cambridge, England (UK). 1977 UK 1ST PRESSING 7" RAM001 / 6078606 As is, Collectible.
The release of Sheena Is A Punk Rocker in the UK was backed up with full page ads in the music press – and a t-shirt offer. The first 1 000 buyers who posted the Ramones eagle emblem from the back of sleeve together with 99p got an "hand-finished T-shirt". The campaign resulted in a peak at number 22 in the UK single chart.
Sheena was released in the UK in may 1977 both as a 12" and a 7" single. The 12" has a great picture sleeve with the perforated eagle eagle emblem on the back for the T-shirt offer. It is limited to 12 000 numbered copies.
"Sheena Is a Punk Rocker" is a song by the punk rock group the Ramones. Written by Joey Ramone, it is one of the Ramones' most popular songs, evidence of Joey's early 1960s surf rock and bubblegum pop influences. It first appeared in May 1977 as a single in the UK where it charted at #22.[1] In the USA, it was released as a single in July 1977, and reached #81, and appeared on copies of the second issue of the band's 1977 album Leave Home (replacing the track "Carbona Not Glue"). The track, as well as its B-side "I Don't Care", was remixed and re-released for their third LP Rocket to Russia.
The song is notable for being one of the first to explicitly refer to "punk rock" in its title and lyrics in terms of a subculture. The song was ranked at No. 5 among the top "Tracks of the Year" for 1977 by NME; it is ranked #461 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and is included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. The "Sheena" referred to in the title is in fact the comic book character Sheena, Queen of the Jungle; the idea being that punk rock music would appeal to a savage jungle girl brought to civilization. Joey Ramone said of the track, "To me 'Sheena' was the first surf/punk rock teenage rebellion song. I combined Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, with the primalness of punk rock. Then Sheena is brought into the modern day."
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