November 1991 , I have 15 years 5 months and just over 3 listening to U2 . U2, the group that my sister started to hear because at that time belonged to an evangelical church where U2 was told that were evangelicals. A mess of beliefs, no doubt, but that motivated that the Irish arrived and influenced my virgin ears. In the three years since I met U2 until released "Achtung Baby ( 1988-1991) had had time to soak in well with the 8 previous albums the band and I was already a scholar of U2: He and could prove to be proficient in the group, had heard his records dozens of times, I had read about them and compulsively looking for their pictures in magazines and videos on TV.
a Saturday, the " Rockopop " of TVE announced the release of the new U2 video " The fly "A video that I had never seen a song he had heard barely a couple of times on the radio. There was, for the first time, before a U2 album new songs not only for me but for the rest of the planet, an event in my life. Finally, Beatriz Pécker announces the video and see it. The song sounded strange, I had nothing to do with " I Still Have not Found What I'm looking for " or " A sort of homecoming " commercial anthems of the band, or as even with " Bullet the blue sky "or" Indian summer sky "that could be described as unconventional songs U2 . This was a song with sharp guitars, a voice that seemed more like a whisper and a dark and oppressive climate. In the video shows Bono in black leather, with those glasses fly bizarre directing traffic in the streets of London and changing with a remote control with half-meter antenna of television channels from a storefront while messages are repeated who accompanied them throughout the tour: "Everything you know is wrong," "believe " or "Watch more TV " - Pero ¿qué es ésto? - me dije. Con 15 años y una idea tan mesiánica de U2 el golpe fue brutal.
Pero la canción, el cambio de aires, la fuerza, el desparpajo, me gustaron, de tal modo que acepté el giro, me compré el vinilo y comencé a escucharlo y escucharlo descubriendo en cada surco la obra maestra que fue, es y será siempre.
U2 habían roto, una vez más, con lo que habían hecho hasta ese momento y, una vez más, la rotura les había salido redonda. Se embarcaron en una exitosa gira desde febrero hasta noviembre de 1992 que enlazó con su siguiente álbum, “Zooropa” (1993 ) whose tour of the Old World and Oceania did not end until December 1993 leaving memorable moments like the George Bush rap chanting " We will rock you" by Queen, the belly dancer moving sensually to Bono during "Mysterious Ways , the second stage in the center of the public,. The May 22, 1993 finally acted Madrid where we had been waiting for since they do shake the foundations of Bernabéu six years ago and this time, how could it be otherwise, gave a concert spectacular went on to become my first concert in "serious" and at best they have given in Madrid (excluding 1987),
With "Achtung Baby " U2 came to the roof, crowned the summit and while they have continued to make great records and grand tours, will never return to the level reached in 1991 , the best year for another band, again.
Highlights:
- ZOO TV TOUR: The start of the concerts with Bono jumping in front of a huge screen Zoo Station, "energy" Until the end of the World "and their impressive Ultimately, the beauty of " Trying to Throw Your Arms Around the World " while Bono recorded with your camera to a drinking champagne etc fan.
- Let there be a line, a letter, a rate that I shudder. On the obligation to point out something: "Love is blindness ", " Acrobat" and "The fly "
Review published on April 17, 2008
