Since I have been doing this podcast for the past 2.5 years, I am amazed at what I have learned. First and foremost, I am so grateful to be doing this to honor my sister. However, I would be lying if I said learning a lot of new things wasn't pretty cool. I thought I knew a lot about pop culture going into this show, however I have quickly learned that was not the case! So in honor of the Pop Culture Retrospectives latest episode, I thought we could go over a list of 10 things you may not have known about the Cranberries!
#1: The band's name was originally the Cranberry Saw Us, which was sort of a play on words if you will, of the infamous Thanksgiving side dish- cranberry sauce.
#2: Delores O'Riordan auditioned for the band while wearing a pink track suit. She was not the only lead singer of the band, but the first singer left the group to return to his previous band.
#3: The original title for the song "Zombie" was "In Your Head."
#4: The Cranberries record label did NOT want them to release the song "Zombie." They apparently wrote out a million dollar check and presented it to them in the hopes they would not release it. O'Riordan apparently ripped the check up right then and there!
#5: O'Riordan learned how to yodel from her Dad!
#6: "No Need to Argue" is the Cranberries best selling album to date. It sold over 20 million copies!
#7: The 3 men in the group- Noel Hogan, Mike Hogan and Fergal Lawler, all apparently met while they were breakdancing as teenagers!
#8: At one time, O'Riordan was one of the wealthiest women in all of Ireland!
#9: O'Riordan wrote her first song at age 12.
#10: After O'Riordan passed away in 2018, the surviving band members all decided to end the group as it would never be the same without their incredibly talented lead singer, Delores.
To learn more about the Cranberries, please tune in to the latest episode of the Pop Culture Retrospective Podcast: Episode #59 - the Cranberries
