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"Red Hill Mining Town" is a song by the rock band U2. It is the sixth track from their 1987 album, The Joshua Tree . A rough version of this song was worked on during the early Joshua Tree album writing sessions in 1985.
* Track No. 5 includes lyrics of the song "Miller's Angels" and the Prince song "Sometimes it Snows in April". * Track No. 8 includes lyrics of the Bruce Springsteen song "Thunder Road". * Track No. 12 includes lyrics of the U2 song "Red Hill Mining Town" and the Sordid Humor song "Dorris Day".
The Edge finally wrote the line "It takes a second to say goodbye". Bono wrote the remainder of the lyrics. On the recording, the Edge sings the first verse of the song. Lyrics in the song about dancing to the atomic bomb is a reference to "Drop the Bomb," a song by Go-go group Trouble Funk, who were U2's labelmates on Island Records. [2]
The song spent three weeks atop the chart, [24] and 18 weeks in total on the Hot 100. [23] The song also topped Billboard ' s Album Rock Tracks chart, [25] Canada's RPM Top 100, [26] and the Irish Singles Chart. [27] According to Billboard, the song was the group's breakthrough with American audiences. [24]
A fifth-season episode of the U.S. television series One Tree Hill, itself named after a U2 song, was called "Running to Stand Still". [ 49 ] By mid-2000s, the Ballymun towers were in the process of being torn down, and the Ballymun area was the target of a €1.8 billion regeneration scheme intended to create a self-sustaining community of ...
Originally, the third single from The Joshua Tree was meant to be the song "Red Hill Mining Town", but "Where the Streets Have No Name" was released instead, in August 1987. [13] The single was released on 7-inch, 12-inch, cassette and CD single formats. [20]
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In 1986, an early version of this song, containing different lyrics, was performed on the RTÉ programme TV GAGA. During the song's recording for the album, the producer Daniel Lanois played the Omnichord, an electronic autoharp. He plugged it into the equipment of the guitarist the Edge, using his delay effect units and guitar amplifier.