Sunday Bloody Sunday (John Lennon and Yoko Ono song) government into removing its troops from Northern Ireland, shortly before Lennon moved to New York. On 30 January 1972 at a protest march in Derry, 13 marchers were killed by members of the 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment. The killing was quickly dubbed "Bloody Sunday". Lennon, who was living in New York at the time, was enraged by the massacre and wrote "Sunday Bloody Sunday" as an angry response. The lyrics of "Sunday Bloody Sunday" express Lennon's anger. Ben Urish and Ken Bielen explain that the lyrics "start off with some nice rhetorical spins and a modicum of insight" but eventually
Sunday Bloody Sunday on MTV—broke the band nationwide." The album version of "Sunday Bloody Sunday" was originally included on "War", but it can also be heard on a number of promotional releases, including the compilations "The Best of 1980-1990" and "U218 Singles". Several live versions have been released; the video available on "Live at Red Rocks: Under a Blood Red Sky" is from a performance at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in June 1983, but the version on the live album "Under a Blood Red Sky" is from a performance on August 20, 1983 during the Rockpalast Open Air music festival at the Lorelei, (West)