When Does "Sunday Bloody Sunday" (1983) Take Place?
"Sunday Bloody Sunday" is a historical fiction narrative song written by Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr. and released February 28th, 1983. So when is "Sunday Bloody Sunday" set?
It takes place in the year:
We know this because the voice of song says, “Broken bodies strewn across the dead-end street” then “Sunday, bloody Sunday” after or while observing the real-world tragic and famous 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre of unarmed protestors, which happened on January 30th, 1972 AD.
It takes place in the year:
1972 AD
We know this because the voice of song says, “Broken bodies strewn across the dead-end street” then “Sunday, bloody Sunday” after or while observing the real-world tragic and famous 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre of unarmed protestors, which happened on January 30th, 1972 AD.
The band has said the song also references the tragic 1920 Bloody Sunday attacks but the line “When fact is fiction and TV, reality” makes it certainly the 1972 AD event, as television only became commercially available in the late 1940s.
