![]() ![]() It was born in part out of honouring another fallen activist Edge explains. That the song would take on that role during the memorial for Samuel Paty is very fitting in a way though. "And again it's utterly unlinked to have something that you worked on in your little small studio all those years ago, taking on that sort of role for people and that significance," he says. And it became actually the sort of the centrepiece of the funeral service and we're like, 'Oh wow.'"įor Edge, to see a song they wrote 30 years ago take on that sort of role in the life of anyone, let alone Samuel Paty, is unbelievably humbling. ![]() It goes on and on and on and they go through the entire song. So they worked out this whole choreography to the to the song and you see the entire like French cabinet and it's just it is incredible to see. But I think it was the military were the honouree coffin bearers and they took it as a challenge. So this poor teacher was murdered by a kid and his family asked that One would be used at this funeral and they play the entire song. "And I think he had mentioned Charlie Hebdo and that whole issue, which is huge in France. "The song was used in a funeral when the teacher who had been killed in Paris, because he had opened up a conversation about prejudice and the prophet Mohammed, and some of his pupils who were Muslims got offended," Edge says. It came after the tragic murder in 2020 of French school teacher Samuel Paty, who was killed following reports he showed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to his students. Then the second performance, the one the band wasn't even part of, is also true testament to the song's incredible emotional worldwide reach.
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