This week’s topic is just a tad different from most of the videos that we have covered so far in this series. The video for “A Sort of Homecoming” is the first “live” promotional video that U2 had created up to this point in their career, and as such it has a different feel from […]
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With the promotional video for “The Unforgettable Fire,” U2 once again turn to director Meiert Avis, who had worked with the band on all of their videos to this point, save for the one which came immediately prior to this one, the video for “Pride (In the Name of Love).” Some of the videos that […]
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Starting in the early 1980s, the power and importance of the music video cannot be overstated. MTV was a bona fide hit-maker, and it is hard to imagine a song doing well on the music charts without also having a popular music video. I say that to say this: I don’t know if U2 would […]
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Today we are discussing the promotional music video for “Two Hearts Beat as One,” the second single from U2’s third album, War. “Two Hearts Beat as One” is a fun, upbeat song and in general the music video follows the mood of the song. There are lots of shots of circus performers, a theme that […]
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This week we pay a visit to the video for U2’s first bona fide hit, “New Year’s Day,” although it only qualified as a hit in certain parts of the world…not so much in the United States, where I live.
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After last week’s divergence due to the fan club gift announcement, we are back on schedule today with the third of U2’s promotional videos, the video for “A Celebration.”
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I know that I was supposed to be writing this week about the promo video for “A Celebration,” and I honestly did plan to. I still aim to cover that video eventually, but something happened this week that I feel compelled to write about instead.
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Following “I Will Follow,” U2 did not record another official promotional video for any of the other songs from their debut album, Boy. Oddly enough, they didn’t even make a video for the first single, “Fire,” from their second album, October. No, their next video did not come along until it was time to promote […]
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Well, it’s been a few weeks since I’ve written anything here. I hope that you all missed me as much as I missed you. Today, I am starting a new series, wherein I will focus each week on an official video by our favorite rockers, and I thought that I would start at the beginning […]
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Like many of you, I’m sure, I was beyond ecstatic when “Beautiful Day” came out nearly 20 years ago. I worked at a record store at the time, and I was able to order for myself a physical copy of the single as an import. I think I opened it up in the store and […]
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