Rattle & Hum

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U2: The Edge (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Bono (vocals, guitar); Adam Clayton (bass); Larry Mullen Jr. (drums). Additional personnel: B.B. King (vocals, guitar); Brian Eno (keyboards); Tom Petty, Benmont Tench, The Memphis Horns, Bob Dylan, The New Voices Of Freedom. Recorded live during the Joshua Tree Tour in the U.S. and Europe in 1987. Personnel: Bono (vocals, guitar, harmonica); The Edge (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Sterling Magee (vocals, guitar, percussion); B.B. King (vocals, guitar); Bob Dylan (vocals, organ, background vocals); Brian Eno (vocals, keyboards); Carolyn Willis, Edna Wright, Phyllis Duncan, Rebecca Evans Russell, Helen Duncan, Billie Barnum, New Voices of Freedom (vocals, background vocals); George Pendergrass, Dorothy Terrell (vocals); Adam Gussow (harmonica); The Memphis Horns (horns); Joey Miskulin (organ); Benmont Tench (keyboards); Adam Clayton (bass guitar); Larry Mullen, Jr. (drums); Larry Bunker (timpani, percussion); Alex Acu?a (percussion). Audio Mixers: Shelly Yakus; David Tickle; Don Smith ; Mark McKenna; Rob Jacobs; Thom Panunzio; Brian Reeves . Recording information: A&M Studios, Hollywood, CA (09/28/1987-12/20/1987); Danesmoate, Dublin, Ireland (09/28/1987-12/20/1987); Justin Herman Plaza, San Francisco, CA (09/28/1987-12/20/1987); Madison Square Gardens, NY (09/28/1987-12/20/1987); Madison, Square Ga (09/28/1987-12/20/1987); McNichols Arena, Denver, CO (09/28/1987-12/20/1987); ocean way (09/28/1987-12/20/1987); Point Depot, Dublin, Ireland (09/28/1987-12/20/1987); STS Studio, Dublin, Ireland (09/28/1987-12/20/1987); Sun Devil Stadium, Tempe, AZ (09/28/1987-12/20/1987); Sun Studio, Memphis, TN (09/28/1987-12/20/1987); The Point Depot, Dublin, Ireland (09/28/1987-12/20/1987). Photographers: Bill Rubinstein; Colm Henry; Anton Corbijn. Unknown Contributor Role: Bruce Cockburn. Functioning as both the soundtrack to U2's feature film documentary and as a tentative follow-up to their career-making blockbuster, Rattle and Hum is a bit m

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The ill will that initially greeted Rattle and Hum--the follow-up to the band's massively successful Joshua Tree album--was due in large part to the bloated and self-important feature film that accompanied it, which showed the band as being simultaneously naive and pretentious as it "discovered" America. But as the film mercifully slips from memory, the music has remained, from the furious swirl of "Desire" and a clutch of live hits to insightful musical nods to heroes such as Bob Dylan, John Lennon, and Billie Holiday. Songs like "When Love Comes to Town," a supercharged blues duet with B.B. King, suggests the quartet knew more about America from listening to its music than Phil Joanou's unintentional mockumentary suggested. --Daniel Durchholz