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"MLK" is a song by Irish rock band U2, and is the tenth and final track on their 1984 album, The Unforgettable Fire. An elegy to Martin Luther King Jr. , it is a short, pensive piece with simple lyrics ("Sleep/Sleep tonight/And may your dreams /Be realized/If the thundercloud/Passes rain/So let it rain/Rain down on me").
"Pride" reached number 3 on the UK Singles Chart.The song was the band's first top 40 hit in the United States where it peaked at number 33. It gained considerable US album-oriented rock radio airplay and its video was on heavy rotation on MTV, thus helping U2 continue its commercial breakthrough begun with the War album.
The lead single "Pride (In the Name of Love)", written about civil rights movement leader Martin Luther King Jr., was their first song to chart in the US top 40. [90] U2 performing in Sydney in September 1984 on the Unforgettable Fire Tour. Much of the Unforgettable Fire Tour moved into indoor arenas as U2 built their audience. [91]
U2 struck a topical, tragic note in the band’s show Sunday at Sphere in Las Vegas, adding “Pride (In the Name of Love)” to the set and dedicating it to the hundreds of music fans killed at a ...
In the wake of this week's violence, Robert F. Kennedy's words following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. have gone viral for their inspiring message to those who are hurting and ...
All of Us remember where we were when a new U2 album popped up on our Apple devices essentially unannounced. For fans of the hugely popular Irish rock band, who have been cranking out seminal ...
The song was originally intended to be about Ronald Reagan's pride in America's military power, but Bono was influenced by Stephen B. Oates's book about Martin Luther King Jr. titled Let The Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and a biography of Malcolm X to ponder the different sides of the civil rights campaigns, the violent and ...
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