| "Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio?" | ||||
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 UK picture sleeve | ||||
| Single by Ramones | ||||
| from the album End of the Century | ||||
| Released | May 16, 1980 | |||
| Recorded | 1979 | |||
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| Length | 3:50 | |||
| Label | Sire Records | |||
| Songwriter(s) | ||||
| Producer(s) | Phil Spector | |||
| Ramones singles chronology | ||||
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| "Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio?" on YouTube | ||||
"Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio?" is a song by American punk rock band Ramones, released by Sire Records as the second single and opening track from the band's fifth studio album End of the Century (1980). It was released on May 16, 1980. Produced by Phil Spector, the song and album marked a change in the Ramones' sound, in an attempt to achieve commercial success.
Based on many rock and pop songs the band grew up listening to, the song featured more complex instrumentation and production than past songs by the band, employing the use of saxophone and organ, along with the standard guitar, drums and bass.[1] The song criticized the state of mainstream rock music at that time and took a roots rock approach.
The album's title End of the Century came from a couplet found in the lyrics of the song: "It's the end, the end of the seventies/It's the end, the end of the century." This verse also provided the title of the 2003 documentary about the group, End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones.
The opening riff of the song appears in the trailers of DreamWorks Animation's Shrek the Third, which was released in 2007. The song also appears in the film's soundtrack.
- ^ True 2005, p. 146.