Walk On (Revised and Updated)
The new updated Walk On is now available. Well at least it is right here in the Regent Bookstore in Vancouver, though its release date is June 28th. It has a great new cover and six new chapters that add about 25,000 more words to the book...
CHAPTER 16: - THE GOAL IS SOUL
This looks at the Elevation Tour which was just beginning when the first Walk On went to press. The tour is divided into two chpaters. This one ends with the band raging prophetically during Bullet The Blue Sky at Slane Castle, Co Meath on September 1, 2001...
CHAPTER 17: - PROPHETS TURNED PASTORS
The events just 10 days after Slane changed the world for ever and sent U2 out across America, one month after 9/11, with a pastoral mission. This chapter looks at how that tour changed the dynamic of many U2 songs and shows how they attempted to bringing comfort and healing to nation they had often prophesied against...
CHAPTER 18: - TONIGHT THANK GOD IT'S THEM INSTEAD OF ME
The title of this chapter is the line that Bono sang in the Band Aid single of 1984 which he sang again in the 2005 version. This chapter looks at his social activism since 2001 but very much fired by that line, single and Live Aid concert twenty years ago...
CHAPTER 19: - AMERICAN PRAYER
As part of his social justice cause for Africa Bono stepped back into the evangelical Christian world for the first time in many years. This chapter looks at the Heart Of America speaking Tour in 2002, his efforts to mobilize the Church to action and his influence on Christian musicians like Michael W Smith, Jars Of Clay and Switchfoot...
CHAPTER 20: - IT COULD BE ABOUT GOD
A long, long but far from exhaustive review of How To Dismantle an Atmomic Bomb...
CHAPTER 21: - EVERYONE
How the songs are played live is the only way to grasp their meaning. It was vital that this book should take in the 2005 Vertigo Tour and so we truned this chapter around in a very short time. Steve saw the tour in Vancouver in late April, wrote this last chapter within hours of the concert and tried to grasp in that short turnaround what the band were trying to say on this sell out tour...
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