Mårten Johannesson ([email protected])
Thu, 22 Oct 1998 11:20:56 +0200
I'd say, as a European citizen, that Live Aid was just as big
breakthrough for U2 in Europe as in the US.
I don't know about you Karine, but I was around (only 7 years old, but
hey...) and I remember all the hoopla on whether Bono did the right
thing to jump the stage and so on. Not to mention the sales of the
UF-album.
Live Aid was the first time _I_ heard U2 and I was fascinated (remember,
only 7 years old... :)) by them and I've listened to them, on and off,
for 13 years now... and I think I'm not the only one with this kind of
story.
The only thing that can compete with Live Aid in my mind is the Denver
83 preformance. U2 drew 9000 (or was it 7000?) people up in the
mountains after three days of rain and they gave a superb preforance.
But Live Aid was better....
David Way wrote about the Conspiracy Of Hope-show:
> With these three factors in place (or nearly in place), their
> performance at this show had a deeper resonance around the world than
> their Live Aid appearance (which certainly didn't hurt them, but, as one
> Wire reader from Europe commented, it didn't solidify them as (in many
> peoples' opinions) the premier act of the '80's
Well, if there's any show that was only for americans, there was this
show. I don't know about the rest of you europeans but here in Sweden
that show was not aired and has never been since. I think it was a
US-MTV-show only.
The Wide Awake In America-EP was released just because of the Live Aid
preformance. People wanted one of those 10-minute-long versions of Bad
instead of the 6 minute version on the UF-album.
Marten
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