U2 your song saved my life4/3/2023 ![]() ![]() It’s hard to exaggerate the role Elvis played in American life. In fact it’s the only way to get anything done. ![]() Your activism has taught me that it’s OK to be full of rage and still smile and dance with joy. Your music has taught me its OK for an Irishman to try and dance with his whole body not just his feet. It’s as if you are here, your irresistible magnetism pulling people to the dance floor. Immediately all earnestness is vanquished and languished bodies become taut and vertical again, dancing their socks off. Your voice cuts through the torpor like a laser beam ray of sheer joy…like a pizza cutter through the box of boring and all. there has been food and drink and dancing…people have moved to couches, starting to talk earnestly if slightly erratically, about feelings or work or politics… engaging for the ones talking (yes, me), tedious for the listeners… my wife Ali takes a strong view that parties are for partying and that people should not NOT be having fun while there is still fun to be had. It’s late at night and the party is growing tired. ![]() Like all great art, this song/this band had at its very core a contradiction… LOVE WILL TEAR US APART. It was all too much… it still is.ĭuality is the right word. What sort of brains did this band contain?Īnd then the dark lord arrived with his hand out-stretched… the man, with the deepest voice on record since Jim Morrison lost his, opened his mouth and offered a simple “a’right lads” in a light lilting Manc moment. Who would listen to Frank Sinatra and Kraftwerk and Bartók and Motown and the Stooges at the same time? I remember thinking as my eyes scanned the vinyl albums scattered around the studio “these people are truly other worldly”…. Martin was very kind to us, as were all of you. We wanted him to produce our first song on Island Records, 11 O’CLOCK TICK TOCK, which he very kindly agreed to. We were there to meet Martin Hannett who produced your opus. It was March and 1980 and U2 were being let into Strawberry Studios where you were recording and mixing this song. ![]()
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