β¦Single "Take Me Out" from album "Franz Ferdinand" (February 9, 2004) was in an ad campaign for the PlayStation Portable game system and became associated with the YTMND fad involving a PSP ejecting its disc automatically. (2005)
β¦Their self-titled debut "Franz Ferdinand" (February 9, 2004) has been certified Gold in the U.S. for sales exceeding 500,000.
β¦Started playing at an abandoned warehouse in the Gorbals which they called "the Chateau".
β¦Was named after archduke of Austria, Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination in 1914 provoked World War I.