![]() It could have been recorded on a Walkman and it still would have that power. But there's something about the song itself that transcends all that stuff. I'm not so in love with the recording – I don't like some of the drum sounds, and it took ages to mix. "It's a great vocal, a great musical idea, a great lyric. " Everybody in the band shines," the Edge told Rolling Stone in 1998. after Rolling Stone writer Jim Henke gave him a book about the civil rights leader called Let The Trumpet Sound: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr. I still harbored a sense that it might be too gospel, but when I eventually heard a gospel choir sing it, I never felt so white! "īono was inspired by write this song about Martin Luther King Jr. Suddenly, rather than sounding like 'U2 go gospel,' it was this little gem. The final thing that nailed it was the chiming guitar part with the echoes. "And I was like, 'How are we going to make this U2 ? ' Then one afternoon Bono was working on a vocal for it and just hit on this approach. "At first it was complete gospel," the Edge told Rolling Stone in 1998. The second single from The Joshua Tree charted all across the world, and helped establish U2 as one of the biggest bands on the planet. ‘I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For’ I think it's madness, but it's grand madness." The song is six and a half minutes long, and the strings were arranged by Brian Wilson's Smile collaborator Van Dyke Parks. But I'm interested in the idea of marriage. I don't think being married to someone is so easy, really. "That's clearly about a younger version of myself and my relationship with Ali," Bono told writer Niall Stokes in Into the Heart: The Stories Behind Every U2 Song. The final track on 1988's Rattle And Hum is a straight-ahead love song written by Bono for his wife Ali. It's one of the few songs from this century that's likely to be in every U2 setlist for the rest of their career. The first single Beautiful Day sounded more like classic U2 than most anything they did in the 1990s, and it became a smash hit. U2 aren't the kind of band to roll over and die, and with their 2000 LP All That You Can't Leave Behind they came back swinging. ![]() (For what it's worth, Pop remains a vastly under-appreciated album). ![]() Their last album Pop failed to connect with a mass audience, and the 1997/98 stadium extravaganza Popmart was labelled Flopmart by one too many headline writers. When the new millennium rolled in, it looked like U2 might be on the way out. He must not have been happy with all of the lyrics, because in concert he never sings the "gold is the reason for the wars we wage" verse. He eventually turned it into a love song for his wife Ali, set against the backdrop of the Polish Solidarity Movement. The track began with Adam Clayton messing around with the bass part at a soundcheck, and then the Edge came up with the piano part – but it took Bono a little while to come up with lyrics. U2's first single to hit the Hot 100 was "New Year's Day," from their 1983 LP War.
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