As with most things surrounding infamous producer, the late Phil Spector, the sessions for the Ramones’ fifth album, End Of The Century, have been stoked with controversy over the years.
While the punk rock pioneers’ 1980 long-player was disparaged by many of the group’s hardcore fans for its more sophisticated production values, the stories of violent, alcohol-fuelled rows culminating in Spector forcing the group to play at gunpoint at both his home and LA’s Gold Star studios have unsurprisingly taken on a whole life of their own.
