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While the band was finding it’s voice as a post-punk entity in the early 80’s, influenced by The Clash, The Sex Pistols and others coming out of England, it was videos of the more melodic and accessible “New Year’s Day” and the martial beat of “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” songs that opened the world’s eyes to the civil war that had dominated life in Ireland for decades, that first captured a significant U.S. While U2 had made serious inroads in North America and around the globe with each successive release, it was their third album, War, which won the Irish lads a presence on the largest commercial vehicle to break new music at the time, MTV. Once the show was captured for live broadcast from Paris, just weeks after the terrorist attack at an Eagles of Death Metal concert, it was clear that once again U2 had taken the concert audiences into a fully realized artistic journey… one that rocked.īut then The Joshua Tree album turned 30, the album that broke the band as a mega-star commercial act that could fill stadiums, and plans changed.
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It was presented as a drama, Broadway musical with a running narrative that was an artistic retelling of the band’s history alongside the events of Irish history all presented in music and visuals. However, once fully realized in a live concert setting with state of the art graphic technology displayed across a large screen/cage/walkway that ran down the center of the sports arenas they filled, the concept along with the album’s music made perfect sense. While the album was given a positive review critically in some corners (the one I occupy, to name one), there was push-back from Apple users who, for reasons that escape me, were incensed by the automatic appearance of new U2 music on their devices. U2 w/ The Lumineers: MetLife Stadium Meadowlands, New Jersey – Wednesday, June 28, 2017Īfter U2’s triumphant tour two years ago in support of their Son(g)s of Innocence release, everyone expected the next tour would center around the promised sequel, Songs of Experience.