Recent content by drowning man

About Red Hill Mining Town: It has to do with Thatcher's politics of closing down "uneconomic mines", which brought many miner sto misery. Bono wrote this song from the pint of view of the miner that loses everything, and the chaos that his relationships become. I take no credit for this, it's...

"I stoped outside a church house Where the citizens like to sit They say they want the Kingdom But they don't want God in it" Talk about desillusion... "Love is blindness, I don't want to see" This is what love is all about! "Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief" And Bono just...

I'm pretty sure that Bono is not a machist, though that doesn't mean that he isn't an anti-feminist... as for that line, I think it may very well be about Ali. Bono spends a lot of tome "tryin' to throw his arms around the world", and he knows that in those times ali needs him as much as "a...

I think you should have a sort of "who's who" section, that would carry information about people who have worked with U2 and/or their members, those from the U2 camp (Willie Williams, Stuart Morgan, Anne-Louise-Kelly...) and those outside (Eno, Lanois, Michael Brook...). Could you please think...