A 1994 Cranberries single written by Dolores O'Riordan about a 1993 IRA bombing in Warrington, with a distorted guitar arrangement uncommon in the band's earlier work.
Composition
Zombie was written by Dolores O’Riordan in response to the IRA bombing in Warrington, England, in March 1993 that killed two children. The arrangement abandons the band’s earlier acoustic approach for heavy distorted guitar.
Reception
Released in September 1994, the single reached number one in over a dozen countries. It became the band’s commercial peak and won Best Song at the 1995 MTV Europe Music Awards.
Legacy
The song’s music video, directed by Samuel Bayer and intercutting O’Riordan with Belfast and Northern Ireland footage, received heavy MTV rotation. In 2020, Zombie became the first song by an Irish band to surpass one billion YouTube views.
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