MTV News Coverage of the ST from yesterday

Deseree Stukes ([email protected])
Tue, 6 Oct 1998 09:05:55 -0400

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Bono Explains "Sweetest Thing" As Boyzone-Flavored Video Debuts
U2 returned to the MTV airwaves Monday with the premiere of "Sweetest
Thing," the band's latest video for a track from its upcoming greatest
hits compilation.
As we previously reported (see "U2 Joined By Boyzone For 'Sweetest
Thing' Video"), the clip for the song features fellow Irish music
posters Boyzone, although the vocal group does not actually turn up on
the song.
"U2: the Best of 1980 to 1990," the band's first greatest hits
collection, features well-known gems like "Pride (In the Name of Love),"
"With or Without You," and "Sunday Bloody Sunday." The album also
carries "Sweetest Thing," a previously unrecorded song that frontman
Bono wrote for his wife Ally more than a decade ago.
"It was written during the album sessions for 'The Joshua Tree,'" Bono
explained, "and it was Ally's birthday and I didn't make it [home] for
the birthday. So, I wanted to write her a little sweet song, but it
ended up a little bit sour as all the best love songs are. I was like,
'I can't write just straight love songs, they make me want to
throw-up.'"
Longtime U2 fans may recognize the young man on cover of the upcoming
compilation. It's Peter, the younger brother of a friend of the band
whose photo graces the covers of two of the band's earliest efforts,
"Boy" and "War."

you can go to MTV at
http://www.mtv.com/news/headlines/981006/story1.html to view the video
clip

des

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