What happened the night Chicago died(the song) whats the meaning behind it?
The Night Chicago Died” is a song by the British group Paper Lace, written by Peter Robin Callander and Mitch Murray. The song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for one week in 1974 and also reached number 3 in the UK charts. Its subject matter is a fictional gang shootout in Chicago between gangsters tied to Al Capone and the Chicago Police. The narrator retells his mother’s anguish in awaiting news of the fate of her husband, a Chicago policeman.