"
Love Is Blindness" is the final song from
U2U2 are a rock band that formed in Dublin, Ireland. The band consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton , and Larry Mullen, Jr...
's 1991 album,
Achtung BabyAchtung Baby is the seventh studio album by rock band U2, released on 19 November 1991. Stung by criticism of their previous album, Rattle and Hum, the album was a deliberate change in musical and thematic direction, incorporating alternative rock, electronic dance, and industrial influences...
. A video was made for the song but was not released until the "
Numb"Numb" is the third track from U2's 1993 album, Zooropa and was released as the album's first single. The song is a monotonous mantra spoken by The Edge with various sound effects and samples. The song's noisy composition and lyrical concept were inspired by the theme of sensory overload, a theme...
" VHS video single in 1993 on which it is featured.
The song was written during the
Rattle and HumRattle and Hum is the name of both an album and a companion motion picture recorded by Irish rock band U2. Both were released in 1988.The album, which was made following the band's 1987 Joshua Tree Tour, is a mix of live recordings, covers, and new songs...
sessions and in Australia during the 1989 Lovetown Tour. Bono had struck up an acquaintance with
Frank SinatraFrancis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers." His professional career had stalled by the...
and "Love is Blindness" shows
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influences.
BonoPaul David Hewson, KBE , most commonly known by his stage name Bono, is an Irish singer and musician, best known for being the main vocalist of the Dublin-based rock band U2. Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, and attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School where he met his future wife,...
described
The EdgeDavid Howell Evans , more widely known by his nickname and stage name The Edge , is an Irish musician known best as the guitarist, keyboardist, and main backing vocalist for the Irish rock band U2...
's
guitar soloGuitar solos are a melodic passage, section, or entire piece of music written for an electric guitar or an acoustic guitar. Guitar solos, which often contain varying degrees of improvisation, are used in many styles of popular music such as blues, rock, metal and jazz styles such as swing and jazz...
as "a more eloquent prayer than anything I could write."
The song was either the final or second last song of
Zoo TV TourThe Zoo TV Tour was an elaborately-staged worldwide concert tour by Irish rock band U2. Launched in support of the album Achtung Baby, the tour visited arenas and stadiums from 1992 through 1993...
shows; with images of the night sky projected were shown on the screens.
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"
Love Is Blindness" is the final song from
U2U2 are a rock band that formed in Dublin, Ireland. The band consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton , and Larry Mullen, Jr...
's 1991 album,
Achtung BabyAchtung Baby is the seventh studio album by rock band U2, released on 19 November 1991. Stung by criticism of their previous album, Rattle and Hum, the album was a deliberate change in musical and thematic direction, incorporating alternative rock, electronic dance, and industrial influences...
. A video was made for the song but was not released until the "
Numb"Numb" is the third track from U2's 1993 album, Zooropa and was released as the album's first single. The song is a monotonous mantra spoken by The Edge with various sound effects and samples. The song's noisy composition and lyrical concept were inspired by the theme of sensory overload, a theme...
" VHS video single in 1993 on which it is featured.
Recording and composition
The song was written during the
Rattle and HumRattle and Hum is the name of both an album and a companion motion picture recorded by Irish rock band U2. Both were released in 1988.The album, which was made following the band's 1987 Joshua Tree Tour, is a mix of live recordings, covers, and new songs...
sessions and in Australia during the 1989 Lovetown Tour. Bono had struck up an acquaintance with
Frank SinatraFrancis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers." His professional career had stalled by the...
and "Love is Blindness" shows
cabaretCabaret is a form of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue—a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting at tables watching the performance being introduced by a master of ceremonies, or MC.Cabaret...
influences.
BonoPaul David Hewson, KBE , most commonly known by his stage name Bono, is an Irish singer and musician, best known for being the main vocalist of the Dublin-based rock band U2. Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, and attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School where he met his future wife,...
described
The EdgeDavid Howell Evans , more widely known by his nickname and stage name The Edge , is an Irish musician known best as the guitarist, keyboardist, and main backing vocalist for the Irish rock band U2...
's
guitar soloGuitar solos are a melodic passage, section, or entire piece of music written for an electric guitar or an acoustic guitar. Guitar solos, which often contain varying degrees of improvisation, are used in many styles of popular music such as blues, rock, metal and jazz styles such as swing and jazz...
as "a more eloquent prayer than anything I could write."
Live performances
The song was either the final or second last song of
Zoo TV TourThe Zoo TV Tour was an elaborately-staged worldwide concert tour by Irish rock band U2. Launched in support of the album Achtung Baby, the tour visited arenas and stadiums from 1992 through 1993...
shows; with images of the night sky projected were shown on the screens. The Edge played the song on his Gibson Les Paul Custom, and included an extended guitar solo in the live performances. A backing track was used to create some of the resonating bass effects. A performance is seen on the
Zoo TV: Live from SydneyZoo TV: Live from Sydney is a concert video release by rock band U2 from the "Zoomerang" leg of their Zoo TV Tour. Recorded on Saturday, November 27, 1993 at Sydney Football Stadium on the band's featured stop in Sydney, Australia, it was released in May 1994 on VHS and Laserdisc, and re-released...
video, with Bono performing the song in his MacPhisto persona and dancing with a girl from the audience.
It was not played again until 1 March 2006 on the
Vertigo TourThe Vertigo Tour was a worldwide concert tour by the Irish rock band U2. Launched in support of the group's 2004 album How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, the visited arenas and stadiums from 2005 through 2006. The Vertigo Tour consisted of five legs that alternated between indoor arena shows in North...
's stop in
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.
See also
- List of covers of U2 songs - Love Is Blindness