Word: albums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...midst of all the '87 madness -- sold-out arena concerts, two No. 1 singles, a No. 1 album, a deluge of magazine covers -- U2 knew they were adrift. It wasn't simply that the velocity of their incredible success had cut them loose from their moorings. Superstardom beamed a sudden, harsh light: the Irish band had no strong musical foundation at all. There was a sudden shared awareness among them that their center could not hold because it had never been firmly fixed...
Rattle and Hum, the title of both U2's brand-new album of the 1987 tour and the energetic performance documentary film released last week, is the sound of the band making contact: with music, with tradition, with their audience, with one another. The title comes from Bullet the Blue Sky, their rabble-rousing apocalypse about American muscle flexing in Central America ("In the locust wind comes a rattle and hum . . . Outside is America"), but the substance of these various tour diaries is, in fact, an exploration. U2 did more than reach back. They immersed themselves in American musical culture...
...musical contents of the album and film vary slightly. The record contains three songs not in the movie, while the movie has eight performances not found on the album. LP and film make a good complement to each other, but it is on the record that the band stakes its strongest claim. In its first week of release, Rattle and Hum shot straight to the top of the album charts, accompanied by some grumpy reviews that fretted about a scope that went way too wide and a cohesion that remained elusive. Indeed, Rattle and Hum is careeningly ambitious, but what...
Although much of Cliff's set was taken from his current album, Hanging Fire,he pleased the crowd with most of his hits from the '60s and '70s, including "Sitting in Limbo," "Wonderful World, Beautiful People" and "Rivers of Babylon." After a 90-minute set, Cliff closed the show with an encore of his two biggest hits, "Many Rivers to Cross" and "The Harder They Come...
Richard Thompson, an Irish folksinger whose album "Amnesia" is listed among the Billboard top 100, will be performing two shows tomorrow night at Sanders Theatre...