U2 - 1985-04-15 - East Rutherford, NJ (FM)

U2

1985-04-15

Brenden Byrne Arena

East Rutherford, NJ

BBC FM Broadcast

320 kbps

Artwork Included

01. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock 

02. I Will Follow 

03. Seconds 

04. MLK 

05. The Unforgettable Fire 

06. talk 

07. Wire 

08. talk 

09. Sunday Bloody Sunday 

10. Cry > The Electric Co. > Amazing Grace > The Electric Co. 

11. A Sort Of Homecoming 

12. talk 

13. Bad 

14. October > New Year's Day 

15. talk 

16. Pride (In the Name of Love)

17. Trash, Trampoline & The Party Girl 

18. Gloria 

19. '40' 

U2 - 1985-04-15 - East Rutherford, NJ (FM)

1980s - #4: Live Aid on July 13, 1985 was a coming out party for U2. Their performance that day established them as a pre-eminent live group for the first time — something for which they would eventually become superstars. The band played a 14-minute rendition of "Bad", during which Bono jumped off the stage to join the crowd and dance with a girl. Twenty years later, in July 2005, the girl that he danced with revealed that he actually saved her life at the time. She was being crushed as the crowd pushed forwards. Bono saw her plight, and gestured at the ushers to help her. They didn't understand what he was saying, so he jumped down to help her himself. Bono, Edge and U2 have remained in the spotlight ever since that transcendent Live Aid performance. This FM broadcast from April 15, 1985, 4 decades ago today catches the band just 3 months before that legendary Live Aid performance.\