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Joey Ramone : I hate to blow the mystique, but at the time we really liked bubblegum music, and we really liked the Bay City Rollers. Their song 'Saturday Night' had a great chant in it, so we wanted a song with a chant in it: 'Hey! Ho! Let's go!' 'Blitzkrieg Bop' was our 'Saturday Night.'
Tommy Ramone : I wrote 'Blitzkrieg Bop.' But Dee Dee contributed the title. And he changed one line. There was a line that went, 'They're shouting in the back now.' He changed it to, 'Shoot 'em in the back now.' Which is a non sequitur. But to him, it made sense.
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Tommy Ramone : I wrote 'Blitzkrieg Bop.' But Dee Dee contributed the title. And he changed one line. There was a line that went, 'They're shouting in the back now.' He changed it to, 'Shoot 'em in the back now.' Which is a non sequitur. But to him, it made sense.
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