cdirani
War Child
where did you get these lengths from?
No, no, the 30 minutes thing was a pure joke. Please check out my laughing icons side-to-side
But, seriously, I wouldn't doubt that some of the tracks were really that long. Not U2, but, for instance, one of the earlier takes of the Beatles' "Helter Skelter" had 27 minutes and then it got edited out. As U2 improvises a lot in the studio one can never know