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JOEY RAMONE's Family Battling Former Producer Over 'Lost' Album

July 13, 2004

The New York Post's "Page Six" is reporting that Joey Ramone's estate is battling his former producer over the punk rock legend's "lost album." Page Six has learned that the RAMONES singer recorded demos of 16 songs with the help of producer Daniel Rey before his death in 2001. Now Joey's brother, Mickey Leigh, claims that the tapes are being "held hostage" by Rey, who wants $100,000 for them. "We've been trying to get Daniel to hand them back since Joey died," he says. "They don't belong to him." But Rey, who recorded and played all the instruments on the demos, says he only wants "some sort of settlement. It has nothing to do with money . . . I'm just concerned with protecting Joey's musical legacy." The producer adds: "These should be released as an album of demos. This is stuff that me and Joey did together." Leigh says the family would like to play the demos for Joey's former A&R guy, Kevin Patrick, and possibly re-record the music backing Joey's vocals. (One song, titled "Party Line", was intended to be a duet with BLONDIE's Debbie Harry and produced by Phil Spector.)

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