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A battle royal for a Czech castle Princess wants property taken after empire collapsed
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International Herald Tribune
02-20-2007
When a young Serb named Gavrilo Princip stepped forward on a Sarajevo street and fired a pistol at a middle-aged couple 93 years ago, he sent history stumbling down an unexpected path.The targets, of course, were Franz Ferdinand, archduke of Austria-Este, heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his wife, Sophie. They were killed. The world went to war. Millions of people died and the political map of Europe was redrawn.Now, Franz...
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Franz Ferdinand rock!
The Malay Mail
; WHEN you name your band after a man whose assassination led to the beginning of World War 1, you are either asking for trouble or basking in your own glory of attempted revolution. Though the death of Franz Ferdinand, the Austrian archduke who was killed by the Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip
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Franz Ferdinand take out their home town
The Sunday Herald
; WHEN they formed, their intention was to make music that girls could dance to, but in the past year Franz Ferdinand have brought everyone on to the dance floor. Tonight, the Glasgow four-piece band follow on from last night's success with their second sell-out show at the SECC. Last night's
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the INVINCIBLE BAND Since forming in 2002, Franz Ferdinand have sold more than three million albums, won the Mercury Music Prize and toured the world. Now they are back with a brilliant new album and what may be their first number one single. Peter Ross spends two days with them in Edinburgh and Glasgow
The Sunday Herald
; FRANZ Ferdinand are hanging out with Bowie. George Bowie, the Radio Clyde disc jockey. When the band play in New York, Ziggy himself comes to their shows - "And he emails every day, " drawls guitarist Nick McCarthy. "Delete. Delete. Delete" - but this is Clydebank not Manhattan. Three quarters of
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FRANZ FERDINAND STAYS AHEAD OF PACK
The Boston Globe
; A funny thing happened to all those new UK bands on their way to becoming this year's Franz Ferdinand. While those lean lads were perfecting their Gang of Four riffs, Franz Ferdinand decided it had no intention of vacating its place as that region's best breakthrough band. So this year's Franz
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Knocking the pop idols off their perch; New Brit band Franz Ferdinand outsold Beyonce with their second single. But it's their forthcoming album that will really transform them into stars.
The Evening Standard (London, England)
; Byline: JOHN AIZLEWOOD SOMETHING strange happened in this week's singles charts. Not at the very top, where Michelle McManus's conveyor-belt pop remains for a second week. Nor at number two, where Kelis's risque Milkshake double-entendres itself a step closer to the summit. At number three,
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Review: You Could Have it So Much Better.... With Franz Ferdinand: Second time around is even better for Franz Ferdinand
The Scotsman
; FRANZ FERDINAND: YOU COULD HAVE IT SO MUCH BETTER WITH FRANZ FERDINAND, DOMINO, 13.99 I CAN never remember - is it a band's second album that is supposed to be the "difficult" one? Or the third? Or is the third one the "experimental" one? Such arcane concerns are immaterial to Franz Ferdinand, the
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FRANZ FERDINAND
Boise Weekly
; Franz Ferdinand is one of those arch little bands that music magazines like Spin love to name-check. Like so many groups-du-jour, Franz Ferdinand hang around on a kind of listener's "to-do" list of groups heard of but not yet heard. They've received the Mercury Prize and their album is up for a
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Why we adore Franz Ferdinand
The Scotsman
; AT LADBROKES, Franz Ferdinand are 9-4 favourites to win the Mercury Music Prize tonight. Which means that, if the Mercury sticks to habit, they probably won't. The Mercury is supposed to be the connoisseur's prize, the pop Booker, an endorsement of musical quality uncorrupted by fashion, hype,
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How I was hijacked by Franz Ferdinand's support band
The Scotsman
; About a year and a half ago I heard about this art opening in Glasgow. I vaguely knew the curators, Sorcha and Marianne, and the thing sounded cool in an Andy Warhol sort of way, being on the top floor of a disused warehouse, so I popped in for an hour. There was a band on later, Sorcha said, but
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Viva La Franz; With a great new CD, the quirky rockers Franz Ferdinand return to save MTV (and us) from a million bands with spiky hair. Just don't call them retro.(Interview)
Newsweek
; Byline: Lorraine Ali This year's Grammys were full of outsize superstar moments--Marc Anthony and J. Lo's soap-operatic duet, Usher's flashy dance number, that star-studded tribute to Southern rock. And then there were Franz Ferdinand. Dressed in drab colors and playing a jerky, lopsided dance
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