I've never heard any theories before about Surrender and Red Light being linked, but this one happens to come straight from Bono himself:
Usually we just keep playing because we're much better at playing music than talking about it. But this song I want to talk about, because this song was in some ways the key to our last record and everone was talking about the violence on our last record and this song is .. not about that at all. This song is about somebody, somebody on top of a tall building in New York. There's two songs on the LP War which are about this person, a song called called Surrender, a song called Red Light. This song is Surrender.
- Before Surrender, 17 September 1984, Melbourne
That doesn't say anything new about Surrender, but I've normally seen Red Light said to be about a prostitute, not the same woman in Surrender. Seems that's not actually the case and the two songs are very much connected.
Maybe this quote is already known, but it was new to me. Thought I'd share it.
Usually we just keep playing because we're much better at playing music than talking about it. But this song I want to talk about, because this song was in some ways the key to our last record and everone was talking about the violence on our last record and this song is .. not about that at all. This song is about somebody, somebody on top of a tall building in New York. There's two songs on the LP War which are about this person, a song called called Surrender, a song called Red Light. This song is Surrender.
- Before Surrender, 17 September 1984, Melbourne
That doesn't say anything new about Surrender, but I've normally seen Red Light said to be about a prostitute, not the same woman in Surrender. Seems that's not actually the case and the two songs are very much connected.
Maybe this quote is already known, but it was new to me. Thought I'd share it.