![]() ![]() In the summer, after sessions in other locations, U2 reconvened in their trusty bolthole of Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin. In June 1985, they were at home in front of 55,000 fans in Dublin’s Croke Park, as the Wide Awake In America EP became a new calling card in the United States.īono’s voice was now being heard in a variety of settings, including as a guest on the all-star, anti-apartheid “Sun City” single and, in early 1986, on Clannad’s plaintive hit single “In A Lifetime.” In June that year, U2 joined Amnesty International’s caravan of impassioned campaigners on the Conspiracy of Hope tour of the US, with Sting, Lou Reed, Peter Gabriel, and Bryan Adams.īut as the year progressed, the need and desire for a new studio statement was growing tangible. U2 were now masters of their domain both in the studio and on the road, and their adventures en route to this latest album landmark included some unforgettable encounters. As Time made its weighty pronouncement, the band were sitting proudly atop the American album chart for the first time, in a nine-week reign for the artistic statement that went on to win the Grammy Award for Album Of The Year, The Joshua Tree. The time since The Unforgettable Fire three years earlier had been uniformly momentous, on stages that responded in size and scale to U2’s now global popularity. “ U2” beamed the headline: “Rock’s Hottest Ticket.” Rarely at home to hyperbole, and more likely to focus its attention on matters of global political import, the venerable newsweekly ran a certain band name in flaming gold, embossed on a picture of four Irish lads who were in the process of rewriting the record book. It was the Apcover of Time magazine that sent the incontrovertible message. ![]()
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