This1984 Song was so COMPLEX…Band WORKED 20 Hours a Day for 2 Weeks to Finish it!--Professor of Rock
3,660Coming up, it’s the story of one of the greatest rock songs of the 80s. Pride in the Name of Love by U2. and it all started with a museum exhibit. U2 was on tour here in America and took in a museum and the song was basically written on the field trip…Then lead singer, Bono convinced a famous producer to put off retirement to work on the track and then it took months to record because the song wasn’t sounding right but U2 had to deliver their record The Unforgettable Fire by a strict deadline so in order to do it they worked 20 hours a day for 2 weeks to finish this masterpiece. Bono and the Edge were going out of their minds. Then they filmed 3 different music videos for the song and the band hated them all. Would this song ever get released? Find out how it did and why Bono changed the famous lyrics decades later!
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After collaborating on three albums together, the members of U2 and producer Steve Lillywhite felt it was time to part ways. Not wanting to repeat the same formula for their upcoming fourth studio album, the band decided they needed someone to steer them into a new, more experimental direction. That someone turned out to be ambient music pioneer Brian Eno, who had previously produced albums for David Bowie and Talking Heads.
In Bono’s words, “It was time for U2 to progress. We’d always made a statement that we were a progressive group, we never wanted to stay in the same place. And we made three records with Steve Lillywhite, Boy, October, and War and we finished a cycle of sorts. Under a Blood Red Sky was the full stop at the end of the sentence. And then it was time to begin a new paragraph.”
The members of U2 were fans of Eno’s work and believed that he was the right man for the European-sounding album they had in mind. But at the time, Eno was considering retirement from music production and wondered if collaborating with U2 would even work. In an hour-long phone conversation with Bono, Eno admitted he wasn’t a fan and had hardly heard any of their records. He was legitimately concerned that he would drastically alter the sound that had so far defined their career.
As has been the case with many who have fallen deep into conversation with Bono, Brian Eno changed his mind... about retirement and U2. Eno found Bono to be articulate, smart, and sympathetic and went on to take the job solely on his impression of the band and their ideals.
But as an insurance policy, Eno insisted that he bring with him a relatively unknown Canadian producer named Daniel Lanois.