![]() ![]() The only images I had of the region and its inhabitants were those pumped over the news. If the Big Apple was largely unknown to me, the Middle East was a greater enigma. As the first anniversary of the attacks rolled around, “Into the Fire” and “You’re Missing” helped quell all the resurfaced sentiment. ![]() That album ended with “My City of Ruins,” the most poignant performance on the “Tribute to Heroes” telecast. Several months later, when Bruce Springsteen released “The Rising” my soundtrack was expanded. Songs like “When I Look at the World” and “Grace” spoke to my feelings of grief and confusion. But listening to Bono sing “New York,” I felt like an honorary citizen. He got shelled and after driving in that afternoon for the game we slept at a hotel in New Jersey.Īt that time, I didn’t know Battery Park from Battery Island. On our way to Cooperstown, N.Y., to watch my childhood hero George Brett get inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999, my dad and I saw Kansas City,Mo.-native David Cone make his first start in Yankee Stadium after throwing a perfect game. I had only been to New York City briefly at that point. As pictures of missing loved ones were plastered on every available surface in New York City, and the names of the departed rolled up the video boards in arenas each night, Bono sang “They’re reading names out on the radio/All the folks the rest of us won’t get to know.” ![]() The words that didn’t make the broadcast, but ended most concerts on U2’s then-current tour were just as affecting. When the quartet performed the song live on the “America: A Tribute to Heroes” special just 10 days after the attacks it was prefaced with the first verse of “Peace On Earth.” Written about an Irish terrorism attack, the lyrics were poignant: “Heaven on Earth, we need it now.” By the time “Walk On” came out in November, 2001, the song had become an unofficial anthem of hope. It was the fourth cut, though, that found the greatest resonance. U2’s “All That You Can’t Leave Behind” had been out for nearly a year the morning two planes slammed into the World Trade Center, another collided with the Pentagon and a fourth flight was forced into the Pennsylvania farmland.įollowing the trend of “The Joshua Tree” the first three songs were released to huge acclaim as singles. (Above: U2 encourage America to “Walk On” in a live appearance broadcast less than two weeks after the Sept. ![]()
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