Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll

Sometimes the meaning of a song is communicated not with words or explanation, but through the magic of the music itselfOne cold spring in St Petersburg many years ago, my Russian exchange partner asked me to write out all of the lyrics to the Cranberries' song Zombie. "What does it mean?" she asked, when I had presented her with a blue-inked likeness of the song, and I tried my faltering best to explain the history of the Troubles, the Easter Rising of 1916, and the more recent Warrington bomb...

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