He was born in the post-war world in 1948, and Ramone’s world-weary comments have nothing of the innate anti-establishmentarian spirit of his punk brothers and sisters, rather the opposite. With the “see how the world really is” comment, Johnny Ramone cast of his punk status and showed himself to be what he truly was, a boomer. He later told the same publication: “People drift towards liberalism at a young age, and I always hope they change when they see how the world really is.” He always showed himself to be deeply cynical of the world, a trait shared by many punks and a perspective closely shared by the likes of Rotten. “People around me were saying, ‘Oh, Kennedy’s so handsome,’ and I thought, ‘Well if these people are going to vote for someone based on how he looks, I don’t want to be a party to that.” “It was in 1960, the Nixon-Kennedy election,” Ramone told the publication, explaining that he first realised he was a Republican aged just 12-years-old. Showing himself to have always carried that contrary punk ethos, he once explained to the Washington Post why he was a Republican. We said Ramone was a walking contradiction, and here’s why. The song is a critique of then-Republican President Ronald Reagan, who visited a Nazi cemetery in Germany to many people’s shock. In fact, Johnny Ramone forced the band to change the name of their classic 1986 track ‘Bonzo Goes To Bitburg’ to ‘My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down’. However, given 9/11 as still fresh in the memory and the magnitude of the platform he found himself on, he could not help himself from ending his acceptance speech by proclaiming ‘God bless President Bush, and God bless America’.įans were shocked, but they shouldn’t have been. He expertly managed to hide his political persuasion from the masses until 2002, when Ramones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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