In Popular Culture
- Al Stewart's 1970 song Manuscript, on the Zero She Flies album, alludes to the assassination. It depicts how, at the time, it seemed to be a minor event and not a trigger for a world war.
- Scottish pop band Franz Ferdinand referenced the event obliquely in their 2004 breakthrough single "Take Me Out". Their light show in concert uses crosshairs to reinforce the allusions. More directly, the single's B-side "All for You, Sophia" describes in detail the assassination of the Archduke and his wife.
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