“Apache” is a song written by Jerry Lordan and first recorded by Bert Weedon. Lordan played the song on ukulele to The Shadows while on tour, and liking the song, the group released their own version which topped the UK […]
November 13, 1887: Bloody Sunday took place in London when a march against unemployment and coercion in Ireland, as well as demanding the release of MP William O’Brien, was attacked by the Metropolitan Police and the British Army. A contemporary report noted that four hundred were arrested and seventy-five persons were badly injured.