U2 - MLK + Where The Streets Have No Name (2002 Super Bowl Live) video free download


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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

Comments

6 years ago

Mike Starr

Very touching. I remember watching this and I still get a lump in my throat and my eyes water

6 years ago

Shea Goff

I got chills when streets started. I don’t think any other band can make that happen to me like U2 can. I love them I only wished I was old enough to see this live. I was only one year old but my parents saw it and loved it for me since I was so young. I was only nine months old when the attacks happened but my parents often tell me about that day. We were in Florida visiting my grandparents and obviously I had no idea what was going on nor do I remember anything from then. I’m seventeen now but it still haunts me even though I didn’t see it live watching videos now just makes me wonder why would they do something like this?? Did they even think about their own lives or were they just focused on killing as many people as they could?? Will it happen again or did they learn their lesson?? It makes no sense but that was their stupid decision. I feel like this performance was a way of saying “yeah you can destroy important government buildings and kill thousands of people but in the end we’re much stronger because of it.” I don’t understand their motives but I know that if it were to happen again Americans can and will pull through.

6 years ago

kornofulgur

Since this very moment the US went down.They fucked up the whole Middle-East despite the warnings of their oldest allies, they doubled their already-number-one military budget, and now slip into a corporate kleptocracy under the easy excuse of patriotism.It's as sad as beautiful this moment was. Arhh..

6 years ago

Tyler Fahey

I'm not a person who cries a lot or get's emotional, but this pretty much made me cry. I like U2, have seen them, have all their albums, and love them. People think their over rated, but once they see this performance they'll realize that this is the best super bowl half time show ever.

6 years ago

Mat Philip

I love Jesus and I love U2!

6 years ago

Hanzel Meyer

This video makes me cry...

6 years ago

Dark Vctry

This was before the NFL became a bunch of liberal pussy's and didn't kneel during our anthem.

6 years ago

Zachary Patterson

im crying

6 years ago

cinnaminson 06

Well I saw these guys in Albany, NY in 1992 and they were just as good.

7 years ago

ACJ212

I remember watching this live. Although I didn't cry on 9/11, this moment brought a tear to me eye.

7 years ago

David Lavita

And today sadly when a True Patriot named President Donald TRUMP wants to stand for American Liberty and the Constitution is confronted by illegal atrocities, and the put down of Bono from U2. My God times have changed. Please God help us.

7 years ago

Arctrooper Rob

Republic Commando deserves a remaster

7 years ago

Andy Cuthbertson

Man I remember this like it was yesterday, all my army buddies an I watching this in a sports bar..Very second that 9/11 sign came on everybody went silent, 2yrs later we got called to go to Baghdad.I still cry every damn time this is on..Best halftime show ever.So much love and respect for America and every person who lost their lives that day on 9/11.16yrs later...

7 years ago

Kyle Winslow

A religious experience. Nothing else moves me more or evokes such emotion as U2's music.

7 years ago

Gui Porto

This is unbelievably cathartic.

7 years ago

Philo Beddoe

This forever will be the best damn super bowl half time show EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

7 years ago

Billy Gray

that opening guitar riff never gets old

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