![]() ![]() What they meant to sell as a tribute to their discovery of rock’s American roots was anything but humble. Their next project, the documentary film and double album Rattle And Hum, backfired. Overwhelmed and plagued by insecurities, however, U2 were not enjoying themselves at all. One rung above what even Bruce Springsteen could achieve, they restored authenticity to great rock music delivered on a big scale, and as an added bonus lent it a humanitarian commitment during the cruel decade of the 1980s. – had already established themselves as the most important rock band in the world thanks to their fifth album, The Joshua Tree (1987).Īt that time, the four young Dubliners were filling the biggest stadiums on the planet every night, and arousing a religious fervor among the masses. The band members – Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. That song, dark, rhythmic, rough and full of intelligent irony, broke radically with the sound and image that U2 had cultivated during the previous decade. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Everything you know is wrong.” The slogan appeared for the first time in the video for The Fly in October 1991, and it would become a refrain of the great Zoo TV Tour (1992-1993). ![]()
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