October is the second studio album by U2. It was released on 12 October 1981 by Island Records, and was produced by Steve Lillywhite. The recording sessions were complicated by Bono’s loss of a briefcase containing in-progress lyrics for the new songs, forcing a hurried, improvisational approach to completing the album on time. October was […]
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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 […]
Read MoreWay back in early 2014, before Songs of Innocence was released and before I’d even warmed up to Vertigo, I found October in the used bookstore. I was actually looking for a Proclaimers album (and my brother was infinitely glad that I didn’t find one that day), but I came across a tiny cache of […]
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“Gloria” was a big surprise at two of the Chicago shows a couple of weeks ago, and I missed writing about it last week, so since nothing really exciting happened this last week, we’ll cover it today.
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