On this day in 2001, rock music lost a true legend when Jeffrey Ross Hyman, better known as Ramones frontman, Joey Ramone, passed after a seven-year fight with lymphoma – the 49 year-old rocker was a month shy from his 50th birthday at the time of his passing.

Born on May 19, 1951 in Queens, New York, Joey Ramone grew up inspired by the sounds of The Beatles, David Bowie, The Stooges and The Who, he idolized The Who's Pete Townshend, who he also happened to share the same birthday with.

The late singer wasn't always the frontman for the Ramones, he was initially the group's drummer but after then vocalist Dee Dee Ramone proved to be unable to handle the strain of consistent live performances, Joey stepped in. The band went on to become one of the most influential punk rock bands of all-time.

Formed in 1974, the Ramones were active through 1996 where they played their final show together as a band on August 6, 1996 at The Palace in Los Angeles, California. Their final show of their farewell tour, the ¡Adios Amigos! Tour, in support of their fourteenth and final studio album, featured a reappearance by Dee Dee Ramone along with special guests that included Motörhead's Lemmy, Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder and Soundgarden's Chris Cornell and Ben Shepard to name a few. The show consisted of a 32-track setlist which featured two encores! Check out the setlist from their final show together below:

Their most-performed song is "Blitzkrieg Bop" which they have performed a total of 758 times according to our setlist.fm data, it was the third song they played during their final show which opened with their 1984 song, "Durango 95." On average their farewell tour featured a 29-song setlist.

As a solo artist, Joey Ramone's final show ever took place on December 11, 2000 at Continental in New York, New York. The show included a 17-song setlist that opened with a cover of Darlene Love's "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" and closed with a performance of The Ramones' "Blitzkrieg Bop," appropriately. He did only one song off of his debut solo album Don't Worry About Me - "Maria Bartiromo."

Check out the full setlist from his final show below:

Joey Ramone's influence lives on through his legacy, the band had a street named after them in 2016 in Joey's hometown of Queens, New York, called The Ramones Way. Their influence was heavily felt in the development of California punk, New Jersey's horror/hardcore punk and even transcended genres such as heavy metal, giving brith to the punk-metal "fusion" genre known as thrash.

With over 50 full-length tribute albums dedicated to The Ramones since as early as 1991, there's no denying the lasting impact they will have on rock music. Joey Ramone will forever be one of rocks greats.