![]() ![]() It would take a few more years before Bono's words matched his vaulting ambitions and messianic zeal. In this sense, lyrically, the songs are too immature to pass muster. But overall the album marks the passage from childhood to adulthood, and all its attendant uncertainties and anxieties. Certainly the hit I Will Follow displays the themes of faith and belief. In interviews of the time the band hinted that their collective christianity had informed the writing. On the band's first polytechnic-touring promotion of the album in the UK he was already climbing PA stacks, mixing it up with his adoring public and generally acting like the world was his it just didn't know it yet. The re-christened Bono Vox was the focal point that marked the band for glory. Of course none of this made sense without the gigantic ego of Paul David Hewson. From the two-note delay-drenched start to I Will Follow, underpinned by Larry Mullin Jr's massive gated drums, theirs was a sound that had ambitions way beyond the smokey clubs of Dublin. In the days of grey raincoated new wave, the band's sound was stadium-sized.Ī lot of this was also down to The Edge's ringing, Echoplex-ed Gibson Explorer. Luckily Hannett's replacement, Steve Lillywhite was (like Eno and Lanois seven years later) to help steer them to a sonic identity that made them stand out from the crowd. Imagine how the universe-gobbling careers of the four boys from Dublin would have fared in the hands of the Mancunian experimentalist. ![]() This, U2's debut album, was originally to be produced by Martin Hannett, but at the last minute he withdrew, distraught over the recent death of Joy Division's Ian Curtis. ![]()
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