I escaped but one of my mates was around the corner with his father, and it was a very hard thing for him to witness and I’m not sure he really got over it.” “On any other Friday I would have been at this record shop, but I cycled to school that day,” says Bono. The only overtly political song on the record, this one tells the true story of a car-bombing in Dublin that hit close to home. Produced by: Declan Gaffney and Danger Mouse “You’re on a piece of ground above a volcano.” “Something in you wants to blow,” Bono yelps. The driving, bass-heavy “Volcano” could be about a young, angry Paul Hewson, wrestling with the death of his mother. Bono sings about “the ache in my heart” that “is so much part of who I am.” U2’s first hit “I Will Follow,” from 1980’s Boy, and “Tomorrow,” from 1981’s October, are also about Bono’s mother, Iris Hewson, but “Iris” is from the perspective of a man in his fifties looking back at a mother who has been gone for four decades, and how her loss has shaped his life. The most emotionally raw song on the album, “Iris” confronts Bono’s loss of his mother, who passed away after collapsing at his grandfather’s funeral when he was only 14. Produced by: Paul Epworth and Ryan Tedder “And if there is a light, don’t let it go out.” “Song For Someone” begins with gentle acoustic guitars before gradually building into a “Walk On”-style crescendo. If there is a kiss I stole from your mouth,” he sings. “I’ve seen for myself/There’s no end to grief.”Ī tender song of awkward first love that sounds like it’s about Bono’s wife Ali the couple first met when Bono was 13 and Ali was 12. “California, blood orange sunset brings you to your knees,” Bono sings. It’s about the group’s first trip to California in the early 1980s. Produced by: Declan Gaffney, Paul Epworth and Danger MouseĪ bright, mid tempo anthem that begins with layered backing vocals that sound like a homage to the Beach Boys. “The most beautiful sound I ever heard…We were pilgrims on our way.” It sounds like the band are very purposefully not trying to sound like the Ramones here, though – instead, the track starts with powerful, almost “Mysterious Ways”-like burst of guitar from the Edge, and is driven by a lilting Bono melody and an overdubbed vocal refrain. “Everything I’ve ever lost now has been returned,” Bono sings. The first song captures the big bang of Bono’s musical awakening: the first time he heard the Ramones. More than any U2 album before it, Songs of Innocence goes deep into Bono and the rest of bandmembers’ teenage years in Dublin in the Seventies. Produced by: Danger Mouse, Paul Epworth and Ryan Tedder
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The album, which was delivered free to all of Apple’s iTunes users (a half billion of them), is “very personal,” Bono tells Rolling Stone in an exclusive interview. U2 took the stage at Apple’s product-launch press conference in Cupertino today and surprise-released their new album Songs of Innocence with a mere five seconds of warning.
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