Beautiful Super Bowl
Beautiful Super Bowl
Beautiful Super Bowl

Beautiful Super Bowl

U2's half-time performance at the US Super Bowl became a moving tribute tothose who lost their lives on September 11th.

04 Feb 2002
U2's half-time performance at the US Super Bowl became a moving tribute tothose who lost their lives on September 11th.

The band performed Beautiful Day, MLK and Where The StreetsHave No Name.

As Beautiful Day wound down and MLK opened, a giant screen scrolled thenames of victims in the attacks, introducing the opening chords of 'Wherethe Streets Have No Name.'

The names reflected in overlapping patterns across the stands, which weredark save for countless camera flashes.

The set was in contrast to glitzy halftime shows of the past, the effectswere limited to strobe lights and all attention was on Bono as he pulledback his lapel to reveal an American flag to the roars of the crowd.

'Most emblematic,' reports the New York Times this morning. 'There was Bono,fresh from the World Economic Forum, where on Saturday he had a formaldebate with Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and lobbied for the cancellationof third-world debt. He led U2 in a live performance during the halftimeshow, a one-man walking, talking, singing symbol of how politics andentertainment mixed here.'

Sunday's pregame lineup opened with the Boston Pops. and the pregame lineupalso featured Paul McCartney, Barry Manilow, Marc Anthony, Mary J. Blige,Patti LaBelle, James Ingram, Wynonna, Yolanda Adams and Mariah Carey.

The pregame show also included a video of current and former star playersreading the Declaration of Independence. In another video, former presidentsCarter, Clinton, Ford and Bush joined Nancy Reagan in quoting AbrahamLincoln.

McCartney, who was in New York when the hijacked planes struck the WorldTrade Center, sang his Sept. 11-inspired song, ''Freedom.''

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