Charles Manson stole this song from the Beatles...
We're stealing it back.
- Is film expensive? - No.
Where's that beer?
We're here in Dublin, recording the new songs.
I knew this would never work!
What has happened
between the writing and recording of the "Joshua Tree" album...
and the tour and now the new songs?
Adam.
What's this film about?
It's sort of a musical journey. You know?
No, it is. It's a musical journey.
What the movie is about is...
When a band is developing...
it goes through certain stages.
We're not the same band we were when we recorded the "War" album, for instance.
We captured that on "Under A Blood Red Sky".
We just wanted to capture this period of the band, to...
Oh, fuck it! I don't know.
- What's the film about? - It's a musical journey.
No, it's about the music. I hope.
At least, that's what you said it was going to be about!
The song "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" is a gospel song.
It doesn't sound like a gospel song the way we do it.
But if you look at the lyric and the basic music, that's exactly what it is.
We got a cassette from a friend at lsland Records
of a gospel choir doing the song.
It sounded totally different, but it sounded exciting and new.
So we travelled to Harlem, and visited a church
where this choir were rehearsing.
We played with them and got the idea
to do a combination arrangement.
My own conga!
"Silver and Gold".
This song was written in a hotel room in New York City...
around the time a friend of ours, Little Steven,
was putting together a record of Artists Against Apartheid.
It's a song written about a man...
in a shanty town outside Johannesburg.
A man who's sick of facing the guns of white South Africa.
A man who is ready to take up arms against his oppressor.
A man who has lost faith in the peacemakers of the West...
while they argue
and while they fail to support a man like Bishop Tutu
and his request for economic sanctions against South Africa.
Am I bugging you?
I don't mean to bug you.
OK, Edge. Play the blues!
You've started writing for the next album.
Being influenced by American music, will it incorporate American music?
We went to Sun Studios in Memphis.
Even though it's been a barber shop, and other things, like a store,
the exact same studio exists, and even the same tiles.
We got Jack Clements,
who recorded Jerry Lee Lewis' "Whole Lotta Shaking Goin' On",
and we recorded five new songs in five hours.
Larry Mullen Junior!
I don't have a microphone, so you can't hear me.
If I had feet like that, I wouldn't show them.
If I had a head like yours, I'd bury it.
When you're on the road for that long,
sometimes you want to do something that isn't on the schedule.
Music can get so boring, so conservative, so predictable.
We've got a flat-bed truck in the plaza with all your gear, so we're all set.
Give us a second. We need to work on "All Along The Watchtower".
Who knows all the words to "All Along The Watchtower"?
- Try a different key. - We could try C.
- Is that OK? - Let's go.
"Rock'n'Roll...
"stops the traffic."
"In God's Country."
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
That was good. You were really smashing the cymbals.
Pass me a tissue, please.
With the BB King song, watch for the third verse.
Not the first verse, the first chorus, not the second verse, but the third verse.
I start to count, then you come in. Keep looking at me - stand beside me.
We'll all look at Larry.
Just make sure, so when we get on there, we're all prepared.
Stand beside me, boom, and in, because Edge is on a different timing, as usual.
Let me introduce somebody whose music I've come to love over the last year.
And his incredible band - this is BB King's band here.
Where's BB?
Believe it or not, BB King came to Ireland.
He was playing in this club in Dublin.
We wrote this song for him: "When Love Comes To Town".
I listened to the tape and I was able to get some of it together.
- I hope you like the song. - I love the song.
The lyrics are really heavy lyrics.
You're very young to write such heavy lyrics!
I'm one of those rebel guys. I like to get in there and see what's going on.
- Break the mould. - That's right.
They look at me kind of weird. They say...
"He's 62 years old, and look what he's trying to do."
- You're 62? - Yes, I'm 62.
I'm no good with chords, so what we do is get somebody else to play chords.
Edge will do that. There's not many chords in the song. I think there's only two.
I'm horrible with chords.
I don't know what to do there. I'm just...
Go ahead. Is that a joke?
"...pale as the lace on her wedding gown.
"But I left her standing before love came to town."
"I threw the dice when they pierced his side.
"But I've seen love conquer a great divide."
All right. Might as well go for it.
Lot of emotion there. That's all right, young man.
That's all right.
Thumb a lift, Edge!
I was a bit disturbed about going to Graceland.
Unlike some of the other guys, I love the Elvis movies.
I used to watch them because...
it was great to see a film star who was a musician.
In every one of his movies, he wasn't acting as a car salesman.
He was acting as a car salesman who loved to play guitar.
I really related to that. I worked for myself for a couple of years.
I was a glorified messenger boy, but I loved to play the drums.
I related to that.
Can we get a photograph on the bike?
Well, we can...
How about the snowmobile?
You don't know what Harley-Davidson means to this man.
How about off-camera? That would be fine.
Yeah. Just a personal photograph. We'll keep this away.
I was worried that us going to Graceland
would take away from him, and take away from us.
When I got there, I enjoyed it.
But seeing the graves and the eternal flame,
it seemed very distant.
I wish he hadn't been buried in the back garden.
I wish he'd been buried somewhere I couldn't have gone. I'd have felt better.
I don't know why. It's just one of those things.
Thank you.
There are people who would say
that you shouldn't mix music and politics.
Or sport and politics, or whatever.
But I think that's bullshit.
I'm not sure that that song should be in the film - "Sunday, Bloody Sunday".
Because that day, the day of the Enniskillen bombing...
will soon be forgotten, and people will not understand the way we felt on stage.
Well, here we are - the Irish in America.
The Irish have been coming to America for years...
going back to the great famine, when the Irish were on the run from starvation...
and a British government that couldn't care less.
Right up to today.
There are more Irish immigrants in America today than ever.
Some illegal, some legal.
A lot of them are just running from high unemployment,
some run from the troubles in Northern Ireland,
from the hatred of the H-blocks and torture.
Others from wild acts of terrorism,
like we had today in a town called Enniskillen...
where 1 1 people lie dead, many more injured,
on a "Sunday, Bloody Sunday".
And let me tell you something.
I've had enough of Irish Americans who haven't been back to their country
in 20 or 30 years
come up to me and talk about "the resistance",
the revolution back home...
and the glory of the revolution
and the glory of dying for the revolution.
Fuck the revolution!
They don't talk about the glory of killing for the revolution.
What's the glory in taking a man from his bed
and shooting him in front of his wife and children?
Where's the glory in that?
Where's the glory in bombing
a Remembrance Day parade of old age pensioners,
their medals taken out and polished for the day?
Where's the glory in that?
To leave them dying or crippled for life...
or dead...
under the rubble of the revolution...
that the majority of the people in my country don't want.
For the Reverend Martin Luther King...
sing.
Good night.
God bless you.
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