The Cranberries Zombie Live on Late Show with David Letterman Nov. 11, 1994
Great Irish rockers The Cranberries perform theirprotestsong Zombie live on Letterman (Aired Early November 1994) In September 1994, The Cranberries released the lead single of their highlyanticipated second album, it was a sublime track called Zombie. The incendiary song was written by lead singer Dolores ORiordan in response to the Warrington city bombings of 1993, England, perpetrated by the IRA terrorist and paramilitary organization. Johnathan Ball, 3, and Tim Parry, 12, were killed and 56 people were injured when two bombs hidden inside litter bins exploded at on March 20, 1993. since nineteensixteen : Monday, April 24th, 1916, the first day of the Easter Rising in Ireland, an armed insurrection. The events of Easter 1916 are of seminal importance in Irish history. Dolores O Riordan: The IRA are not me. Im not the IRA. The Cranberries are not the IRA. My family are not. When it says in the song, Its not me, its not my family, that
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