Category: Uber Rock Singles Club

On 1 July 1916, one of the bloodiest and most horrific single battlefield engagements in the bloody and horrific history of mankind began. By the end of the day, on the British side alone, more than 57,000 men had been killed or injured. When the battle finally finished, four-and-a-half months later, it is estimated that more than a million men had lost their lives. It has been argued that they died in vain, as the Battle Of The Somme failed to meet the objectives of the British and French commanders, and the war raged on for another two years, costing millions of more lives… Today, as the world marks the 110th anniversary of that fateful day, so do we, as we share a selection of songs which recall, and retell, the sacrifice made by so many who laid down their lives on the bloodied, muddy fields of northern France (and elsewhere across Europe) more than a century ago.