’Love Rescue Me’
’Love Rescue Me’
’Love Rescue Me’
’Love Rescue Me’
28 OCTOBER 2023 1 MIN READ

'Love Rescue Me'

'Can you hear us when we whisper?' Night thirteen at Sphere.

28 Oct 2023
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'Love Rescue Me'

'There's something to being in front of such a large crowd and feeling so tiny – but I can whisper to you', Bono says in introducing 'Love Rescue Me'. 'Can you hear us when we whisper?'  

Sounds like everyone can.

'Now let's make this whisper into a kind of scream. There's a lot to scream about these days….This is a song we wrote with Bob Dylan…and this song is our prayer… a message of hope and love and peace.'

'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For' rotated out and 'Angel of Harlem'  rotated back in. Also among the 22 songs,  snippets including the Beatle's 'Drive My Car', Lou Reed's ' 'Satellite of Love', and The Rolling Stones' 'Paint It Black'… with 'What A Wonderful World' turning up at the end of 'Beautiful Day'. 

What Bono Said

On the 10th anniversary of Lou Reed's death, the 'great poet laureate of New York and a lot of other places' was on Bono's mind. He told a story about them meeting not long after Live Aid in July 1985. 'We met him, and he was a cool customer — he didn't give it up. I said to his partner at the time, “Does he not like us?” And she said, “No, no. He wasn't on Live Aid and then this band from Ireland started singing 'Satellite of Love' and went into a bit of 'Walk on the Wild Side…'

'Live Aid was very much a satellite of love….  (this is) for Lou Reed!'

Sending love out to Larry Mullen Jr.,  Bram is introduced: 'He's saved our ass when it was quite the ways out the window.'

'Do you have anything to say to us tonight?' he asks the Dutch drummer, who replies, deadpan: 'That thing you said... summed it up pretty much'.

Shout Outs

To the 'lion tamer' Arthur Fogel, CEO of Live Nation's touring division, on his 70th birthday. 'He has a very extraordinary lion-taming technique where he just kind of stares at you really quietly. He stares these cats down, and I know this because I'm one of the cats that he has stared down'.

On The Socials 

'I feel like I'm in heaven!....Someone's gonna do church in here. Might as well be U2!' — Toby Lemley via Facebook 

'#U2 @SphereVegas is something never seen before. we will see if ever again or not but art like that is transformative in the same way the Sistine Chapel can move…forget once in a lifetime it's more like many lifetimes — for all the bad what a time to be alive to witness that' — @high5iron on X

'2 days ago we had that universe-shaking performance with Lady Gaga. Tonight we have such an intimate, intense experience.... #U2 #U2Sphere' —

@HerzensSonne22 on X

Zootopia/U2 Faniverse

'Edge is putting a little more wacka wacka on MW than usual.' — lukylsp

'Lego should make the Even Better than the Real Thing Elvis Shrine model... it would be great to have it on a wall in your house...' —Max Tsukino

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