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After everything everyone still has a grudging respect for U2, and I say “grudging respect” because a) they are one of the biggest rock bands in history and plenty of people love them ) I can’t overlook the fact that of any “classic” rock act, they’ve probably been consistently better than most bands you can name, and for a long period of time, Even the towering genius of David Bowie’s peak creative years have got nothing on U2 who have never really been “bad” in over 35 years. U2 have had a remarkably good run of it. Bono, although he’s undeniably done some good things in the world, strikes me as a man who absolutely who loves himself, like Sting does. So here we have 1982’s “A Celebration.”. “A Celebration” does not appear on any U2 album and was deleted six months after it came out. According to a 1983 interview with drummer Larry Mullen Jr.:
“We did a video of it. We went to this prison in Dublin, where the 1916 uprising took place, called Kilmainham Jail, and filmed it with the idea of breaking out. It was very much a look at ourselves. Like when we were in school and everyone was telling us ‘you’re crap’ and we couldn’t get a record dealit was the triumph of breaking through.”
The reason for the record’s cold shoulder from the group who recorded it—and were presumably proud enough of it to shoot a video for the song. This is a corker of a song with an amazing guitar riff. but it’s still tragically the least known song in U2’s large catalog. Eventually it was released on CD in 2004 on The Complete U2.
The Fat Angel Sings 