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.