U2 has shared an emotional, acoustic rendition. “Sunday Bloody Sunday”To commemorate the 50th anniversary “Bloody Sunday”The 1983 smash was inspired by the massacre.
30 January 2022 – With love, Bono & Edge pic.twitter.com/7hOVk1w3fa
— U2 (@U2) January 30, 2022
On January 30, 1972, 26 people were shot — and 14 killed — when British soldiers opened fire on a protest march in the Northern Ireland city of Derry. All of the protestors were killed in the massacre. “Bloody Sunday”The victims of the massacre were not armed and the soldiers involved in the attack largely escaped prosecution for their part in one of the most brutal days of World War II. “the Troubles”There is no difference between England and Northern Ireland.
“It was a day that caused the conflict between the two communities in Northern Ireland — Catholic nationalist and Protestant unionist — to spiral into another dimension: every Irish person conscious on that day has a mental picture of Edward Daly, later the bishop of Derry, holding a blood-stained handkerchief aloft as he valiantly tended to the wounded and the dying,”Bono spoke out about the massacre in a 2010 opinion piece.
U2 released their first album 10 years later. “Sunday Bloody Sunday”Their 1983 LP War; as Bono noted of the song’s legacy in that 2010 op-ed, “The song will be sung wherever there are rock fans with mullets and rage, from Sarajevo to Tehran.”
Watch U2’s historic 1983 performance of the song at Red Rocks below: