Bono Tells Story of U2's "Bullet the Blue Sky"
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- Опубліковано 17 тра 2016
- "I'm blessed because I'm part of the U2 group and they're really good. They have an ability to express inexpressible thoughts," says Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inductee Bono telling the story of U2's song "Bullet the Blue Sky" from the Joshua Tree album. #RockPolitics
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I was born in .El Salvador and lived.There during the civil war and is .Magical how U2 puts this War zone scenario in to a song.Love U2 always will
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Awesome! Awesome! I too was born in El Salvador (1980) during the war. Though I my fam and I left when I was just four years old so I have no memories of the war. But my fam would tell me stories about it. And to find out that this song was about that time makes that song even more epic to me.
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Me too
It was hard
I still cry until this day
When I was a child in the 80s here in Albuquerque my family protested against the “war in El Salvador”.
God bless
I could listen to this wonderful man for hours! A great man!!!!
+u2freak1974 Nice name, homie
U2Freak96 Ahhhhh, great! Nice name, my friend!
some of the very best lyrics in a U2 song ever
True.
Yup, especially the Jacob wrestled the angel
Agree, agree!
One of my favorite songs ever. The incredible thing is that it isn't even the best or second best on the album. The Joshua Tree really plays like a greatest hits record. Totally stacked.
It's always been my favorite U2 song. So passionate.
Pierre Conrad
I know!
Pierre Conrad have to agree. I remember working in a record store when it came out. we got an advanced cassette promo. held an all night listening party the night before its release. I was like "they did it. they made an Abbey Road"
How have I never realised that it's a nod to Hendrix! ? Totally obvious
"You plant a demon seed, to raise a flower of fire" - damn, that is some amazing lyrics right there
the whole song has superb metaphors.
Amazing
I don't get it. I suck at decoding stuff.
@@1w598 in this case “planting a bad seed... like sending money, or backing unsavory people... only to have them rise up and be a danger. Like the Contras or think of Bin Laden... US supported him against the Russians.... but look how turned out
I say this all the time. I am an English major. I can write. I can write well. There is, however, a tragic difference between communicating well and poetry. There are those who can simply turn a line, a rhyme, poignancy prolific in a few words. I just don't have that and it's amazing when you see it.
"I remember the...smell...of...I suppose being near a warzone. I really don't think we were in any danger - I don't want to exaggerate that - but I knew that lives were being endangered or being lost...close to us...and I felt for them."
I grew up in Yuogslavia during the ethnic cleansing of Bosnians. I live so far away from that now, but what Bono said there is exactly how I still feel about it. It never stops haunting you, and you never feel worthy of the pain it brings you because you know there are others who have had it much worse, because you don't dare dishonor their pain by equating yours with it.
thescowlingschnauzer Respect.
what an amazing perspective to experience and carry with you...
I could partially relate to the feeling when playing This War of Mine.
I only see and hear about these terrible things on TV, but I do feel some of their pain. Also makes me feel powerless and sad. The world is nuts, that's my conclusion.
@Justin Credible I wish Bono quit dem party fanboism. Both dem and repubs did harm to other nations in the world.
Wow thank you Bono....it was incredible...like a citizen of my dear El Salvador🇸🇻🇸🇻🇸🇻🇸🇻🇸🇻🇸🇻🇸🇻🇸🇻 not for nothing is my favorite
Hearing Bono talk and seeing him smile makes me happy!!!
Their most hard edged rock sounding song they've ever made... Love it!
My absolute all-time favourite from U2, so very interesting to know all these details.
Same and yes!
If ever Angels walked the earth Bono and the rest of U2 band would be them. God bless you U2 band.
I love Bono, fascinating individual and writer. And I'm not the hugest U2 fan, but I do like their music going all the way back to when I first Gloria on MTV when I was 12. I love his heart and compassion.
I have all these folders where I save bookmarked videos. Some of the folder names are "Spirit", "Creativity", and "Rock". It is a testament to Bono and to U2 that this video could have gone in any of them.
one of the deepest lyrics i can think of...every time i hear it, that opening verse....evokes mind blowing images of the price of war.
You make a world a better place, Love you 4💚💚💚💚☘️☘️☘️☘️🤍🤍🤍🤍✌️✌️✌️✌️
fantastic planet. messed up world.
killer song. epic band.
One thing I love is when someone can incorporate verses from the Bible into song. Bono does this so beautifully and poetically. One of my favorite u2 songs live.
bible and u2 big sellers
I’m from SALVADOR.!
I TRUST ME.
IT WAS A LOT WORSE THEN
WHAT THEY TOLD.
I LIVE IT. LIVE.
LUCKY ME. AND FAMILY
SURVIVE.
BONO? IS NOT LYING !
WHEN HE SAY I HEARD BOOMING.
GOOD SONG
BEST BAND EVER. LOVE IT.
I never knew the Reagan connection...face red like the rose of thornbush...nice! and thanks RRHoF :)
What an incredible band !! On of the best songs ever.. massive lyrics. Great Bono!!
Jacob wrestled the Angel and the Angel was overcome.
❤#Bono ❤#U2
I wonder how driven he is to write more songs about america during the last 4 years...Im sure he must have been fit to be tied many times like many of us....#tRUMPHELL
This song is a Heavy Mwtal U2 song. U2 is the best Rock Band hall of the time.
From Brasil.
Listen to the Zoo TV version of this song. SIMPLY EPIC! The Edge did a 2:00 long Hendrix-like solo that stands as one of his best solos ever.
KLRGT500KR tnx for the tip.
greetings from Argentina!!
Co-sign.Totally agree with you there
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I was fortunate enough to see Hendrix in 1970 a few months before he passed into the spirit world. Edge is close. But make NO mistake. Hendrix was that super rare person who conversed with the audience like a chat with a friend. Sometimes in words and sometimes in unbelievable riffs. Close but Hendrix was simply the best!
U2 has always been amazing in and out of music.
THE BIGGEST BAND ON THE PLANET
After.... Tool, NIN, Rush, Pink Floyd, Depeche Mode..
@@12qwertyuiop90 no
Who is you?
U2 are probably the biggest touring band next to the rolling stones
My favorite band !!! 😍😗😘
Wow that's powerful Bono u are one my top heros
Great lyrics great singer great band 👏👏👏
30 years on. Still my hero. You are the man.
One of my favorite U2 songs 💙
BTBS has one of those intros that's a mix of haunting yet gets your adrenaline going. A good fight song!
Thank you for the upload!
Same here! Thank you!
I'm Salvadoran
The song has lots of feelings
My sister's father-in-law was a staunch, right-wing, Reaganite but with a heart. He was quite wealthy. He was also appalled at what was happening in El Salvador. He went there even though he was quite elderly and when he saw what was happening, he immediately started sponsoring those who were in peril of their lives and brought hundreds of them to America. Once he got them here, he provided housing, food, and daily sustenance while assisting them in finding jobs. He must have brought several hundred such refugees to Texas and spent a tremendous amount of money on the endeavor. I always saw him as an uncompromising right-winger until the day he began this quest.
Very insightful!
Saludos desde el salvador i think it' s the best rock band in the whole world awesome song bullet blu sky
Hermosa canción... U2!!!!
This song is my fav. U2 song.
happy belated 56th birthday bono!!! ur my idol!!!
It’s a tough song, I think and feel so heavy from it. Sometimes it makes me so feared but was so impressed to see zoo TV in Tokyo.
Estuvo en Guazapa de seguro 🇸🇻🇸🇻🇸🇻
Bono!!🇸🇻 🇮🇪
Uma das maiores e melhores bandas de Rock ,já conhecida. U2.
Maior banda de rock de todos os tempos
Well said Bono ! We are living in some of the worst times now ( 2021 ) with uncertainty in the world today .
👍Like to hear more Songwriter's understand ,express and take us out of the fog 🔊🥀
When I saw them during the Joshua Tree tour I thought The Edge's solo was going to tear a hole in the roof of the arena.
A true legend
Wow! I never realized how deep that song went.
I wish he would come to Brazil too
I remember the sound of those bullets. 😞
Interesting To Note!
Im salvadorean, mi pueblo al fin esta saliendo de la oscuridad 😭💗💗💗
Pero el presidente dice que todo fue una farsa o sea que esta cancion tambien lo es
IM BORN CANADIAN BUT THANK YOUMY PARENTS COME THAT BULLET COUNTRY
So you were born in Canada... how did you manage to write such broken English?
Bono was on to something with his reaction. I’m glad he put that into poem and song. It’s was brilliant. What he felt at the time was a ‘trembling of indignation to a horrific injustice’. A great revolutionary might say Bono was not too far off , at that moment from being a “comrade” of his. 😉
I'm an American, and I can tell you that most Americans have no clue what their "leaders" are doing in their names. Politics has devolved into a personality driven, reality TV show with no real discussion of policy positions. This is evident by the two piles of steaming dung we're given to "choose" from every 4 years; one served on a red plate and the other on blue. And we'll use all kinds of mental gymnastics to convince ourselves that our pile of dung is better than the other. Then we'll run to Fox or MSNBC and CNN to reaffirm our biases.
Nothing will change until a viable third party dedicated to the needs of the working class is formed. That, and the cops (who are blue-collar, union labor themselves) realize that they are protecting their own enslavers, and decide to stop brutalizing their fellow common citizens at the behest of the oligarchs.
soooo fuckin beautiful!!!
super..
Relevant.
"THE GOD I BELEIVE IN ISN"T SHORT OF CASH, MISTER!!!" ........... EPIC ....... BEAUTIFUL .......... MEANINGFUL!!!!!!!
I know Bono is Irish but his accent sounds very American in this video. This is bewildering
This is why U2 is probably my favorite Christian band. Granted, they happen to be Christian. But it's so nice to see them interpret scripture in different ways and make it their own. That's what makes me unsatisfied with the Christian music industry today because it's mostly the same sound, same ideas. There's nothing really wrong with that, but it doesn't seem to allow for more artistic exploration.
Bono is not afraid to speak out about various issues and problems in our world. Big respect to him.
I 'm a bit speechless...very refreshing stuff.
In the Montreal Gazette this columnist that compiled quotes and extracts of tid bits of Hollywood celebrity-type people in Saturday's entertainment section used to constantly rip in Bono (calling him St-Bono) whenever there was a piece about him ....and seeing this interview now tells me that Bono's intentions were probably, most of the time, taken completely out of context (at most I just used to think that Bono's causes were never really going to be fruitful, never was he a person trying to boost his ego or soemthing). I think Bono here just expressed or explained what he as an artist does and it's completely normal. I think it's absurd that life 'makes' people go into or near hardship to get something recorded...I wonder how 2016 inspired people. Forgive my sloppy writing.
Good song, even it it derives from Jim Morrion's "The End." This album was amazing for this band.
We were an uninformed public.
profetico
His hairpiece looks great
Jacob was touched by Jesus and was never the same again....
Beautiful and terrifying song.
"Maybe if I were a better writer" ...............
"....you plant a demon seed, you raise a flower of fire......"
POD does a great cover of it
*Protocols 2:1* _"It is indispensable for our purpose that wars, so far as possible, should not result in territorial gains: war will thus be brought on to the economic ground, where the nations will not fail to perceive in the assistance we give the strength of our predominance, and this state of things will put both sides at the mercy of our international agentur; which possesses millions of eyes ever on the watch and unhampered by any limitations whatsoever..."_
One is not a true American until resident in the ADL's database.
bona ya b ollix
I thought it said bono tells the story of his mullet
Idiot
That would be as interesting as Stalins mustache story, or Marx beard 😉🤔
This is a anti American song. I love it! I love America,but love when someone calls the great nation out for its wrong doing!
newbroady To be clear,
I don't think U2 is anti-America.
They are quite often, however,
anti-American foreign policy.
That's an important distinction.
Amen!!!!
I think it’s more of a telling off, a reminder that we have strayed from the ideal America we proclaim to be, rather than anti-American. Bono has often spoke about his love of the “idea” of America, and how it so differs from the current reality of America. I think many of us share those views. I know I do.
That makes it an American song!
Maybe we shouldn't be killing harmless Latin Americans for sport.
I love this song, and it brings me back to being a kid.
Sadly, the U.S. is still getting involved in other countries' wars, and we don't make things better. Both sides do it - Republicans and Democrats - 2024. It is about $$
Joshua Tree was their greatest.
“Joshua Tree”, best album U2… 4me
Can anyone explain Bono's hair
We all had mullets, or near mullets, in the 80s
That’s his natural hair color he dyes it black
One familie member came's from Syria. His wife was works on the televisie station she did some show coffee time. He wants to takes his wife with his car to house. Before he was on the television station he take a beautiful picture from the routation round with cars on it and flowers and water inside . On the moment he take his wife in his car manny bombs arround the televison station was places on the car routation went af. He drive verry quick to take himself and his pregnant wife to home. Arround all the bombs places in a round make hard exploxions. His sister who was also has work on the television station that time in Syria was stop of all the incedents with journalist. She has also a verry hard time to do there work. It was not one bullet in the sky for them there where manny explotions. Also the same was happend when a truck from Nido children melk was exploded with his friend and collega inside. My family member from Syria was go later that time to his funeral of his friend and collega. Than also the bombs go of on the funeral. He saw manny parts of exploded bodys parts fly around him. Also arround his house at night in a small town near Damascus every night he heard shoting and bombing. On morter was landing in the wall of his house.Now he is better he was runn to Europe. He life now with his wife and child in Holland. But wars and bombs and even bad words kill people. It is a shame to kill hurt and to kill people if you can life as one family. No war make peace..
I AM ARGENTINIAN.
AND I NEED TRANSLATION IN SPANISH.
PLEASE!!!
TNX.
And now we get Reggeaton
Interesting how he was into liberation theology and that whole heresy. It’s sad that it infected so many people. Even president Obama up to our day. I believe Bono would say that he is not into that today. I’ve heard him talk about theology in much more orthodox ways since back then when they wrote this song. Still a great overview of what was going on in the world and with him at the time though. Great video!
Why not go to Venezuela?
True !! But don’t forget about nigeria , sudan , burma , there’s a lot of places that have more need than Venezuela, exept the oil part isn’t available in these other places !!!
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50 miles up the road from his own backyard in cosy Dublin 4, his own people were dying for 'liberation' against British tyranny during the very same time. But yeah...God forbid he'd want anything he wrote labeled a 'rebel song' if it was on his own doorstep...
Guess you haven't heard "Sunday Bloody Sunday" or more recently "Raised by Wolves"..
All his time. money and philanthropy has not made one bit of difference to world hunger, war or violence. Next!
Not as good of a song on the album, but the Edges solo on Zoo TV is incredible
There is no religion but mine
bona said there were shots fired over our head ......they were shootin at ya bona!, bona is so christian and charitable that he sued a no mark costume designer from the joshua tree era to return? HIS HAT! after she tried to flog it for a few quid .......its all b ollix
a nod to jimi hendrix my hole lol edge couldn't play a jimi lick if his life depended on it ffs
Oh get over yourself. Bono never compared Edge to Hendrix.
U missed the point.
It's about the tone, not the licks
My wife is from Colombia, and her sister lives in Mexico, brother in Spain. Most Americans have no idea what it's like to live in danger every day, the real possibility of being robed, raped, tortured, and killed. This is why so many come here because they live in dire straights 24/7 365. Meanwhile, Americans live in freest, safest, most opportunistic country in the world, yet we still complain. Amazing.
put pizza
Its fair to say that BONO no longer considers himself to be a christian, right? Thats the impression i get...
Jesus, he takes his time to get to the point.
katoness Many different points to make.
But we know immediately that you are an impatient jackass.
He is a deep thinker.
Do you see those fighter planes, when you're riding on private planes?
You sure do.
What he meant to say was , we heard Ted Nugents Stranglehold and we blatanly stole it.
LOL it's a coincidence
The sounds like a rippoff of whole lotta love by led zeppelin.
Rancorous you mean a rip off of muddy waters ?
You clearly don't listen to much Led Zeppelin
@@petergreen2552 heavy like Zep, that's it
Wish they would do a Ukraine version.
Is it me or is he a little drunk ?