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"Tommy Gun" is a song by the British punk rock band The Clash, released as the first single from their second album Give 'Em Enough Rope (1978). Background.
Johnny Got His Gun. Johnny Got His Gun is an anti-war novel written in 1938 by American novelist Dalton Trumbo and published in September 1939 by J. B. Lippincott. [ 1] The novel won one of the early National Book Awards: the Most Original Book of 1939. [ 2] A 1971 film adaptation was written and directed by Trumbo.
Length. 3:47. Label. Asylum. Songwriter (s) Warren Zevon, David Lindell. " Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner " is a song composed by Warren Zevon and David Lindell [ 1] and performed by Zevon. It was included on Zevon's 1978 album Excitable Boy, and while never released as a single became a fan favorite. It was the last song he performed in ...
Bubblegum (also called Bubblegum pop) is pop music in a catchy and upbeat style that is marketed for children and adolescents. [13] The term also refers to a more specific rock and pop subgenre, [14] originating in the United States in the late 1960s, that evolved from garage rock, novelty songs, and the Brill Building sound, and which was also defined by its target demographic of preteens and ...
The year after the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, police raided the Michigan home of gangster Fred Burke, left, and seized a small cache of weapons, including two Tommy guns used in the ...
Tony Montana. Antonio " Tony " Montana is a fictional character and the villain protagonist of the 1983 film Scarface. This character is portrayed by Al Pacino in the film and is voiced by André Sogliuzzo in the 2006 video game Scarface: The World Is Yours. Embodying the possibility of a person rising from the bottom of society to the top ...
The Thompson submachine gun (also known as the " Tommy gun ", " Chicago typewriter ", or " trench broom ") is a blowback-operated, selective-fire submachine gun, invented and developed by Brigadier General John T. Thompson, a United States Army officer, in 1918. It was designed to break the stalemate of trench warfare of World War I, although ...
No they'll never take back our sons again. Johnny, I'm swearing to ye. Steeleye Span recorded an adaptation of the song, called "Fighting For Strangers", on their 1976 album Rocket Cottage. Their version is substantially different, but bears the refrain "Johnny, what've they done to you" or "Johnny what'll happen to you".