I was 19. I had heard of U2, but I had never heard any of their songs until I heard WOWY on the radio a few weeks before JT came out. I still remember exactly where I was - in my dorm room, getting ready for my first class of the day. I think U2 became my favorite band before the song was even finished.
I was so broke that I couldn't afford to buy JT until a long time after it came out. Fortunately, one of the local radio stations played not only all the singles off the album, but a couple of non-singles like Red Hill Mining Town and Trip Through Your Wires, so I was able to tape them.
I remember how exciting it was to see the premiere of the WOWY video on MTV and see the band make the cover of Time magazine. It seemed like all of a sudden everyone I knew was a huge fan. I moved out of the dorms and into an apartment with three other women that summer and we all used to sit around and watch MTV and go bonkers whenever a U2 video came on.
yay, I knew I'd be right about something, someday. 
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at the legendary presenter.
I really enjoyed the friendly banter! Edge says "song by song this is really our best album" which I don't know how he can say that with classics like Achtung and Joshua in the picture. But I guess an artist always promotes his/her latest work the most. So whatever. But the part I really found funny on this video is Bono realizing all of a sudden, out of the blue that the last 2 albums have long ass titles. He's like OMG I just realized how ridiculously long the titles are! No shit, Bono! Made me laugh out loud. Cos when you come to think of it, they probably don't put too much importance to whether a title is too long or whatever. It's the fans who analyze such things I guess. 
