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"Miracle Drug" is the second track from U2
U2

U2 are a rock music band from Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The band consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. .The band formed in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency....
's 2004 album, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb is the eleventh studio album by Republic of Ireland rock music band U2, released in November 2004. Much like their previous album, All That You Can't Leave Behind, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb was commercially successful and critically acclaimed and maintains a more traditional rock sound after t...
. It was written about the late Irish
Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
 writer
Writer

A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, as well as those who have written in many different forms....
 Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan (author)

Christopher Nolan was an Ireland poet and author, son of Joseph and Bernadette Nolan. He grew up in Mullingar, Ireland, but later moved to Dublin to attend college....
, with whom the band attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School
Mount Temple Comprehensive School

Mount Temple Comprehensive School is a secondary school located in Clontarf, Dublin, Dublin, Republic of Ireland, originally notable as the first multi-denominational public school under Protestant management to open in Dublin....
. Bono said of Nolan:

The song shares a similar chord progression with their 1987 song "With or Without You
With or Without You

"With or Without You" is the lead single from U2's 1987 album, The Joshua Tree. It has since become highly-acclaimed as one of the band's most popular songs....
". and features a rare background vocal appearance by U2's drummer Larry Mullen, Jr.






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"Miracle Drug" is the second track from U2
U2

U2 are a rock music band from Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The band consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. .The band formed in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency....
's 2004 album, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb is the eleventh studio album by Republic of Ireland rock music band U2, released in November 2004. Much like their previous album, All That You Can't Leave Behind, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb was commercially successful and critically acclaimed and maintains a more traditional rock sound after t...
. It was written about the late Irish
Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
 writer
Writer

A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, as well as those who have written in many different forms....
 Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan (author)

Christopher Nolan was an Ireland poet and author, son of Joseph and Bernadette Nolan. He grew up in Mullingar, Ireland, but later moved to Dublin to attend college....
, with whom the band attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School
Mount Temple Comprehensive School

Mount Temple Comprehensive School is a secondary school located in Clontarf, Dublin, Dublin, Republic of Ireland, originally notable as the first multi-denominational public school under Protestant management to open in Dublin....
. Bono said of Nolan:

The song shares a similar chord progression with their 1987 song "With or Without You
With or Without You

"With or Without You" is the lead single from U2's 1987 album, The Joshua Tree. It has since become highly-acclaimed as one of the band's most popular songs....
". and features a rare background vocal appearance by U2's drummer Larry Mullen, Jr. Indeed, it is one of only two U2 songs to feature three members of U2 on vocals - Bono
Bono

Paul David Hewson , also known by his stage name Bono, is the main vocalist of the Ireland rock band U2. Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, and attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School where he met his future wife, Ali Hewson, and the future members of U2....
, The Edge
The Edge

David Howell Evans , more widely known by his nickname and stage name The Edge , is a British people Irish people musician known best as the guitarist, keyboardist, and main backing vocalist for the Ireland rock band U2....
, and Mullen. The only other is "Numb
Numb (U2 song)

"Numb" is the third track from U2's 1993 album, Zooropa and was released as the album's first single. The song is a repeating, monotonous mantra spoken by The Edge with a drumbeat sampled from the Leni Riefenstahl film Olympia ....
" from the Zooropa
Zooropa

Zooropa is the eighth studio album by the Republic of Ireland rock music band U2. Originally intended as an Extended play, it was recorded between legs of the Zoo TV Tour and released on 6 July 1993 by Island Records as a full-length album....
 album.

"Miracle Drug" was played live at every show of the first and second legs of the Vertigo Tour
Vertigo Tour

The Vertigo Tour was a worldwide concert tour by the Republic of Ireland Rock music band U2. Launched in support of the group's 2004 in music album How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, the visited arenas and stadiums from 2005 through 2006....
, with Bono using the song (and the story of Nolan) as a means of expressing his appreciation for doctors, nurses, and others in the medical field. Towards the end of the third leg of the tour, it was dropped and did not reappear on any of the fourth or fifth leg shows. Its last performance on the Vertigo Tour was November 28, 2005 in Montreal.