Too Tough to Love: My Life with Johnny Ramone (Paperback or Softback)

TOO TOUGH TO LOVE is Cynthia "Roxy" Whitney's memoir of her 20-year live-in love affair with punk guitar legend and Johnny Ramone. It tells the absolute truth of what was really going on behind closed doors that has never been told until now. While most fans have heard of the notorious love triangle of Johnny, singer Joey Ramone, and Joey's girlfriend Linda Daniele (later Mrs. Johnny Ramone), very few know that the "triangle"also had another injured party-Roxy, who had been there beside Johnny from the beginning., She gives a no-holds-barred account of life in 1970s New York, the early days of punk and the Ramones, and the betrayal that shattered and haunted the band for the rest of its existence. Roxy was written out of the Ramones' official history, but her relationship with Johnny continued for many years - even after his marriage to Joeys fiance. As told to spoken-word poet Emily XYZ, Roxy's story is full of vivid, funny, hair-raising and poignant details, and paints a far more complex portrait of Johnny than any other Ramones history or memoir..Its the real deal.