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Bono, during a concert of the Irish group U2, has performed unreleased song 'I love you' probably from Songs of Experience album. This is un official video. Those young Irish Catholics and epics who took the white flag to the stage to claim peace for their country, U2, were made of gold with The Joshua Tree, the album in which they discovered the United States and that catapulted them to the category of stars Worldwide, fighting on the charts with Springsteen, Michael Jackson and Madonna. That mythical and traditionalist record, which brings them to Barcelona tomorrow, has been reissued in its 30th anniversary in various formats and with extra contents (alternative, direct or expensive b, among others).
Looking through the rear view mirror, it is incredible that the first songs of the mastodontic U2 arrived in Euskadi when the Internet and the musical platforms were lucubrations linked to science fiction, via importation, since its first disc was not published at the time in the Spanish State . They became known with the impulse of the new wave and the punk, next to bands like The Police, The Clash, Pretenders or Talking Heads, and its first three albums consolidated an intense style, epic and rocky with an accused personality.
To be able to listen to The Joshua Tree Tour tracks tickets must have been purchased from Ticketmaster and therefore, those purchased on unofficial channels will not allow access to the venue. Therefore, the official sales company recommends that, in those cases, buyers request the return of the tickets to the resale sites.
As the entries are nominal, the companions must go with the "assistant principal", who could only acquire a maximum of 6 entries and that must be identified with an official document. If this buyer can not come, he can not hand over to anyone and the companions will stay at the doors. Ticketmaster ensures that tickets could always be purchased with non-attendance insurance.
Never before had the group played for so many people: 115,000. It overflowed everything and was certified the so-called "stadium rock"
Bono and bassist Adam Clayton on July 15, 1987 at the Santiago Bernabeu. There were 115,000 in the stadium. And thousands more people in the street, climbing to the buildings, tried to take something of that history. RICARDO GUTIÉRREZ Never before had so many people sneaked into a show. At least in Spain. And it has not been surpassed. According to students of the case (there are, and many, because that was history of live shows in Spain), up to 40,000 people accessed the Santiago Bernabeu without having bought the entrance. Yes, there is no errata: 40,000, almost like a full Vicente Calderon.
"The expected capacity was 75,000 but, for reasons that are not too clear, there were more than 115,000 spectators inside, which made the stadium what the media called 'a mousetrap.'" At ten in the evening, four Hours after the opening of doors, all accesses except two were locked with locks.If anything had happened, the eviction would have caused a catastrophe, "says Xavier Balart in the book U2 in Spain, which is detailed profusely and with a multitude From sources the group's relationship with our country. It is even said that Ramon Mendoza, president of Real Madrid at the time, lived that with real awe.
Last May, U2 officially gave way to nostalgia and began the Vancouver Joshua Tree Tour 2017, the tour with which they celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of their best-selling album, The Joshua Tree, which hit them in a fulminating way from the Category of great aspirants to that of shining stars. Until the promised land of stadium rock after a desert pilgrimage during which they shipped more than 25 million units of that their fifth album of study.
To the repeated shouts of "toreeero, toreeero, toreeero" of the public, Bono responded with lapidary phrases: "We are not the bullfighter, we are the bull!".
And that, with the final material sent to the production plants, the vocalist, Bono (Dublin, 1960), was about to call to ask to stop the machinery: doubted the quality of the eleven songs of The Joshua Tree . But it was contained and the album sold 300,000 copies in two days only in the UK, a market he led for two weeks. In the United States it entered the 4 and soon reached number one, where it stayed nine weeks.
"The best day of my life without a doubt, but it was also a bitch because that was my first concert and I have never seen anything like it." I do not think it will ever happen again, those who were there were truly privileged. Of what we live that day, "says an assistant to that concert in an Internet forum.
Next July 18 the band returns inside The Joshua Tree Tour 2017. It will be at the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona. There will be 55,000 fans of U2, many of whom are sure to remember well what happened 30 years ago.