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 concert on the U2 360° Tour, paying tribute to the 2009 Iranian election protests on each occasion by projecting scenes from the protests and Persian writing in green on the video screen. "Sunday Bloody Sunday" has been played as the opening song at shows on the Joshua Tree Tour 2017. Although a promotional music video had not been produced for the original release, the band used footage from a 5 June 1983 live performance filmed for the concert film "" to promote the song. Directed by Gavin Taylor, the video displays Bono's use of a white flag during performances of