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“Bonzo Goes to Bitburg” is a song by American punk rock band the Ramones. Initially issued as a single in Great Britain by Beggars Banquet Records in 1985, it did not receive an American single release. An emotionally charged protest of the visit by U.S. president Ronald Reagan to a German cemetery where SS combatants were buried, it was a major critical success. Though it was available in the United States only as an import, it became a hit on college radio. The following year, retitled “My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg)“, it appeared on the band’s album Animal Boy. The second version of the title is the one used on subsequent live and compilation albums. Read on...