Sunday Bloody Sunday (John Lennon and Yoko Ono song) Sunday Bloody Sunday (John Lennon and Yoko Ono song) "Sunday Bloody Sunday" is a song written by John Lennon and Yoko Ono that was first released on their 1972 album with Elephant's Memory, "Some Time in New York City". The song addresses the Bloody Sunday massacre of 1972 and is one of two on the album that addresses the contemporary Northern Ireland conflict, "The Luck of the Irish" being the other. Lennon had sympathies for the Roman Catholic Irish minority in Northern Ireland and had joined a protest in London on 11 August 1971 that attempted to pressure the British
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)