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U2 performed this at halftime of the 2002
Super Bowl between the Patriots and Rams.
As they played, names of victims in the
September 11 attacks were scrolled on a giant
screen. At the end of the performance Bono
opened his jacket to reveal an American flag
in the lining.
"Where the Streets Have No Name" is more like
the U2 of old than any of the other songs on
the LP, because it's a sketch - I was just
trying to sketch a location, maybe a
spiritual location, maybe a romantic
location.
I was trying to sketch a feeling. I often
feel very claustrophobic in a city, a feeling
of wanting to break out of that city and a
feeling of wanting to go somewhere where the
values of the city and the values of our
society don't hold you down.
An interesting story that someone told me
once is that in Belfast, by what street
someone lives on you can tell not only their
religion but tell how much money they're
making - literally by which side of the road
they live on, because the further up the hill
the more expensive the houses become.
That said something to me, and so I started
writing about a place "where the streets have
no name."
- Bono from Propaganda 5, 1987
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