![]() “The Last Rock Stars!”, Elvis Costello proclaimed when introducing U2’s Bono and The Edge on Costello’s Spectacletv interview series a few years ago, and while no one could have predicted it when U2’s documentary concert film and soundtrack album Rattle and Hum debuted in October 1988, it is clear now that the post- Joshua Tree period captured in the film, as well as in this week’s In the Studio interview, is precisely when the band was elevated into rock’s pantheon. I’d like to think that it’s the same righteous anger.” In the ’90s our music got a little more intimate, and the hypocrisy that we were having a go at was more our own. In the ’80s there were more determinable bad guys, and we were having a go at them. We want it to count, to make a difference. ![]() “We’ll always be that band that over-reaches, and we’ll take the hit for it”, declares lead singer/ lyricist Bono in this week’s classic rock interview.”It doesn’t matter. When Academy Award-winning documentary film maker Davis Guggenheim‘s ( An Inconvenient Truth, and my favorite It Might Get Loudwith guitarists The Edge, Jack White, and Jimmy Page) U2 rock doc From the Sky Down aired on Showtime, you saw confirmed what U2 drummer Larry Mullen jr blurted out to me during in our In The Studio classic rock interview: that the Dublin-based quartet nearly broke up in the Berlin recording studio after reconvening following their Rattle and Hum first flirtation with the movie world.
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