It is no secret that Bono has a charity-minded disposition. Over the years, he and the band that he fronts have dedicated their talents to no shortage of philanthropic causes, from several iterations of Band-Aid’s “Do They Know it’s Christmas,” right up to Street Lights’ cover of Simon and Garfunkel’s “Homeward Bound,” a new release […]
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Ever since “Disappearing Act” was first released, I have struggled with some of the lyrics. I like to think that I am pretty perceptive, and that I can get “deep” with the best of them, but this song has some sections that I just don’t get. That’s unfortunate too, because I think that the song […]
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I spent some time this past week listening to the unofficial Achtung Baby demos set . You know the one…there are early versions of “Until the End of the World,” and “Even Better Than the Real Thing,” and then some tracks that would go officially unreleased for twenty years, like “Blow Your House Down,” and […]
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