In May 2005, the album was declared a Diamond Record with more than 60,000 copies sold. This tour continued on and off until 2005, and included concerts at the Sydney Entertainment Centre and Melbourne's Vodafone Arena. In 2002, Thompson started their first major tour to promote the album E, moj narode. They later became popular again with the hit "Prijatelji" in 1998. During the 1990s Thompson became popular in Croatia with the release of the first album Moli mala in 1992. This song, with slightly different lyrics, named "Branitelji Sarajeva", was sung by the BiH Army during the Siege of Sarajevo ( Sarajevo zaboravit neće nikada). Thompson came to be popular during the Croatian war in 1991, with the release of the first single "Bojna Čavoglave", which is about the Croatian participation in the Yugoslav Wars and was included in the compilation album Rock za Hrvatsku. Although mostly formed in Čavoglave, Thompson is currently based in Zagreb. ![]() The band name originates from the Thompson submachine gun, a nickname given to Perković while he fought in the Croatian War of Independence. The members of the band, aside from him, are Tomislav Mandarić, Ivan Ivanković, Duje Ivić, and Ivica Bilić Ike. Thompson is a Croatian ethno band, founded by Marko Perković aka "Thompson", often thought of as the same as the band itself.
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