Like superheroes, Jeffrey Hyman, John Cummings, Douglas Colvin, and Thomas Erdelyi put on black leather jackets in 1974 and assumed their new rocker personas: Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee, and Tommy Ramone. Those four guys from Forest Hills, Queens, loved the Stooges and New York Dolls. Television were the first band to make the Bowery bar CBGB a hot spot for underground New York bands. And Patti Smith was the first CBGB act to release a major label album, a few months ahead of the Ramones’ self-titled 1976 debut. But the Ramones are truly the Johnny Appleseed of punk rock, who gave countless bands in America, the U.K., and around the world the simplest, most inspirationally attainable blueprint to follow. The Ramones perform at CBGB, New York, New York, October 30, 1977. (Credit: Allan Tannenbaum/Getty Images) For 20 years, Joey Ramone’s hiccupping croon and Johnny Ramone’s relentless power chords kept on and on for 14 albums and more than 2,000 shows.…