Reveries for the laziest day of the week
9 July 2023
Irish rock legends U2 release a new album, named Songs Of Surrender last March.
An album with no less than 40 reworked/reimagined tracks from their astounding past.
One of the revisited songs is their 1983 anthem SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY (from their 2nd LP ‘War’)
They stripped the song to the bone
creating a goosebumps impact.
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Original version
U2: Bio – Discography – Website
31 January 2022
Back in 1983 Irish mega stars U2 released their political classic
SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY. The song describes the horror felt
by an observer of the The Troubles In Northern Ireland, the
devastating Ethno-nationalist conflict (Protestants vs Catholics,
Nationalists vs Unionists) that lasted for about 30 years, late 60s
to 1998.
The most dramatic event was the killing of 14 unarmed civil rights
protesters by British troops in Derry on Sunday, January 30, 1972,
50 years ago.
To remember that awful day, 50 years later, Bono and The Edge
performed a gripping acoustic version of Sunday Bloody Sunday.
U2: Website
Memorable festival flashes to heal this summer’s ‘no festivals’ pain…
12 July 2020
On 13th July 1985, 35 years ago, massive concert event LIVE AID was organized
by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for the immensely dramatic Ethiopian
famine.
Announced as the ‘global jukebox’, the marathon was held simultaneously
at Wembley Stadium in London for 72,000 people, and at John F. Kennedy
Stadium in Philadelphia with a crowd of 89,500. And an audience of 1.9 billion
TV viewers across 150 nations, that’s nearly 40% of the world population!
One of the most memorable performances was by U2.
The Irish rockers – read Bono – stunned Wembley and
the whole wide world with epic renditions of Sunday
Bloody Sunday and Bad. Relive it here…
– BAD –
– SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY –
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