This video has always been a bit of a hard one for me to swallow. I am talking, of course, of the second video for U2’s 1997 single “Staring at the Sun.” The video was directed by Morleigh Steinberg, who is now wife to The Edge, and I have to confess that I am a […]
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Today we are taking a look at the first video filmed for “Staring at the Sun,” which was directed by Jake Scott, son of famed filmmaker Ridley Scott. To be frank, I like this video quite a bit, and I definitely prefer it to the second video, although the members of U2 don’t seem to […]
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In addition to being the thirtieth anniversary of U2’s first worldwide number one hit The Joshua Tree, 2017 marks another birthday – the twentieth commemoration of the release of what is probably U2’s most controversial album, Pop. Since we’ve spent the whole year up to this point celebrating The Joshua Tree, and there is, you […]
Read MoreOf course, like all U2 fans, my mind is on the ongoing saga concerning the long-awaited 13th album. Is it delayed, or isn’t it? What if it never comes out – does that mean the band will never tour again? I don’t need to rehash the whole painful debacle for you, but it did get […]
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