There is a tragic true story behind one of The Cranberries‘ biggest songs.
The band’s 1994 hit “Zombie” was released off their second studio album, “No Need to Argue.” The song was written by frontwoman Dolores O’Riordan, who later revealed she was inspired by a real-life tragedy when she came up with the haunting lyrics to the alt-rock classic.
O’Riordan told Songwriting Magazine she was moved to write “Zombie” after hearing about a terrorist bombing attack in Warrington, England that was carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), injuring 56 people and leaving two children dead.
“At the time Zombie was written, we were touring in the UK. It was before the peace treaty and there had been a lot of trouble. There were a lot of bombs going off in London and I remember this one time a child was killed when a bomb was put in a rubbish bin,” she said. “That’s why there’s that line in the song, ‘A child is slowly taken.'”
On March 20, 1993, two bombs were hidden in cast-iron trash bins that exploded near the Golden Square shopping mall, the BBC reported at the time. The blasts killed 3-year-old Jonathan Ball at the scene and fatally injured 12-year-old Tim Parry, who died in the hospital five days later after being taken off life support.
“We were on a tour bus and I was near the location where it happened, so it really struck me hard — I was quite young, but I remember being devastated about the innocent children being pulled into that kind of thing,” said O’Riordan, who was born in Ireland.
“So I suppose that’s why I was saying, ‘It’s not me’ — [meaning] that even though I’m Irish it wasn’t me, I didn’t do it,” O’Riordan explained, while going on to say that being Irish was “quite hard” at the time, especially in the UK. “It’s so different now. If you told a teenager now what it was like back then they wouldn’t believe you, but it wasn’t such a long time ago.”
“Zombie,” with its haunting history and grungy sound, would end up making its way to the top of the U.S. rock charts, spending six weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Alternative Airplay chart in October 1994. It also reached No. 1 in several other countries, including France, Germany, Australia, Denmark, Belgium.
In April 2020, the music video for “Zombie” surpassed 1 billion views on YouTube, making The Cranberries the first Irish music group or artist to achieve the milestone.
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