in part because of songs like 'Sunday Bloody Sunday' and 'New Year's Day.' War became the band's first No.1 album in the UK (knockingMichael Jackson'sThrillerfrom the top of the charts). The boy on the cover of the album is Peter Rowen (the brother of Bono's friend, Guggi from...
A war is goin’ on but the reason’s undercover The truth is kept secret, it’s swept under the rug If you never know truth then you never know love Where’s the love, y’all, come on (I don’t know) Where’s the truth, y’all, come on (I don’t know) ...
A month later,Songs Of Innocence was released on CD & Vinyl, the striking cover art featuringLarry Mullen Jr protecting his 18 year old son. The image resonated with the band's iconic 1980 debut album Boy and, three years later, the War album. Both featured the face of a child, Peter ...
U2 – October (1981)The Irish quartet’s sophomore album is easily the group’s most overlooked release. It doesn’t have the promise of their defiant debut, the hit singles on War or the Brian Eno cache of The Unforgettable Fire. All bets for October’s reappraisal were off once The Jo...
3. 'War' (1983) A strident, powerful album,Waris the sound of a band that has always known their voice, but has just figured out what they're trying to say. It's widely regarded as U2's first political album, where Bono's lyrics took aim at more than just the personal and univers...
Waiting for me inside the receiving room is Adam Clayton, 55, who is craggishly handsome and speaks with the cool remove of a Bond villain. When I was a grade-school kid in the late ’80s just starting to get into U2 — which was my entrée into caring about rock bands, period —...
It was about a year prior when a controversial ground-to-air war in the Gaza strip divided the music industry. As tension escalated and Israeli military action pummeled the tiny area of land — including cratering a building housing the Al-Jazeera news network — label executives, artists and...
Dolores O’Riordan’s airy vocal touch lifted The Cranberries to alt-rock success in the early ‘90s, but with their sophomore setNo Need to Argue, the band showed a decidedly heavier side with the lead single “Zombie,” a protest song written about the horrors of war that continued to ...
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