The Dead Boys fit right in, they were like us, and in appreciation for our hospitality Stiv presented us with our very own Nazi Mother’s Crosses to make us honorary Dead Boys, but Joey and I were laughing at them, like, “Oh great, just what we always wanted, Nazi necklaces!” The Ramones sang that they were Nazis in the song “Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World,” but they weren’t Nazis. You see, the entire seventies culture was based on being “nice.” You had to be nice. It’s no accident that smiley faces became the symbol of the seventies. So when the Ramones sang that they were Nazis, they
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