Rattle and Hum
The most highly charged moment of the film was when Bono made a passionate speech against the support that many Irish-Americans give to the republican terrorist campaign in Northern Ireland without knowing anything about the situation here (I live in NI myself). That very day, eleven people had been killed in an IRA bomb at a Remembrance Day ceremony in Enniskillen. Bono angrily challenged the idea that what was going on in Ireland was somehow 'glorious', before giving an emotional performance of Sunday Bloody Sunday. It was to be several years before the band felt able to play that song again, such had been the strength of feeling on that night. After the movie's release, Bono received death threats from terrorist groups who were angry at his outspoken condemnation of their violent campaign, and the resultant drop in funding they received from the US.
FromThree Chords and the Truth
Released October 1988
Tracks on the album include:
- HELTER SKELTER
- VAN DIEMENT'S LAND
- DESIRE
- HAWKMOON 269
- ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER
- I STILL HAVEN'T FOUND WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR
- FREEDOM FOR MY PEOPLE
- SILVER AND GOLD
- PRIDE (IN THE NAME OF LOVE)
- ANGEL OF HARLEM
- LOVE RESCUE ME
- WHEN LOVE COMES TO TOWN
- HEARTLAND
- GOD PART II
- THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER
- BULLET THE BLUE SKY
- ALL I WANT IS YOU
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