Indie rockers from Scottish
Glasgow.
Franz Ferdinand is a cartoon character (a lion with a somewhat
subordinate role in the series Alfred J. Quack), but for their band name the
men of Franz Ferdinand were inspired by a different character: the tragic
figure of Austrian Crown Prince and Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
This ardent
hunter - he once shot 59 boar and was furious that number 60 had eluded him –
and pretender to the throne became the prey of the Serbian nationalist Gavrilo
Princip (name giver of the concept of 'principle'), who shot him on 28 June
1914 in Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina). Austria declared war on Serbia. Not long
after the First World War broke out.
Active: 2002-present, GBR
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