Bang, bang, shoot me Gavrilo
Bang, bang, the first six are for you
Bang, bang, the seventh is for me
Bang, bang, Gavrilo Princip
Bang, bang, Europe’s going to weep
(Franz Ferdinand – All For You, Sophia)
The band with an Austro-Hungarian Archduke name wrote a song called All For You, Sophia about said Austro-Hungarian Archduke … on the day he was assassinated, 101 year ago.
It was June 28th 1914 when the Archduke was assassinated, along with his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg. It was Gavrillo Princip, who pulled the trigger on him. A 19 year old member of Young Bosnia, a revolutionary movement with school kids as its members.
The Archduke passed away with loving words to his wife, who was dying next to him of a shot to her abdomen, “Sopherl! Sopherl! Sterbe nicht! Bleibe am Leben für unsere Kinder! – Sophie dear! Don’t die! Stay alive for our children!” and a chain reaction effect called World War I.
About 90 years after the incident, four lads from Glasgow, Scotland, decided that they should make a band and play music that girls can dance to. While they were on a process of finding names with a telly on, one of the lads, Alex, saw that the box was playing a horse race, and one of the horses’ name was The Archduke, he asked his friends, “Remember that Archduke, Franz Ferdinand?”
And today, when you search the name ‘Franz Ferdinand’ on Google, the band’s Wikipedia page was shown before the real historical figure.
“I like the idea that, if we become popular, maybe the words Franz Ferdinand will make people think of the band instead of the historical figure”
~ Paul Thomson, Franz Ferdinand’s drummer.
Disclaimer:
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand came from http://weeklyhubris.com
- Alex Kapranos came from http://pitchfork.com
- Franz Ferdinand band came from http://paulestodo.com
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