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U2 developed "City of Blinding Lights" from a song called "Scott Walker", an outtake from the band's 1997 album Pop.This incarnation, written as an homage to the singer of the same name, was only an outline when the recording sessions for Pop concluded. [3]
City of Blinding Lights" is the fifth track and third single from the group's 2004 album How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. The song tells the story of U2's first arrival in New York City in 1980, with Bono remarking it was an "amazing, magical time in our life, when we didn't know how powerful it was not to know."
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Heading into How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, U2's guitarist the Edge said the group felt it was the appropriate moment to explore their early musical inspirations. [4] U2's lead vocalist Bono said in a 2005 interview, "I went back and listened to all the music that made me want to be in a band, right from the Buzzcocks, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Echo & The Bunnymen, all that stuff.
"Take me to that other place," Bono sang Friday. And that is exactly what U2 did during their transporting, sensory-overloading first show at the Strip's new $2.3 billion entertainment arena.
U2 are joined on-stage by Eagles of Death Metal, who were returning to Paris for the first time since the attack at their Bataclan show.. U2 paid tribute to the victims of the attacks by displaying their names on the video screen during their performance of "City of Blinding Lights". [7]
U2 performs "City of Blinding Lights" in their home town of Dublin in June 2005. Prior to the band taking the stage, "Wake Up" by Canadian rock band Arcade Fire was played as introduction music. [10] The arena shows of the first and third legs usually began with the same trio of songs: "City of Blinding Lights", "Vertigo", and "Elevation".
Against many odds — of age, of personal change, of shifts in attitude about authenticity and delusions of grandeur — “U2:UV” does come off managing to feel like actual rock ‘n’ roll.