
CHA Weekend Edition Presents I Will Follow: the Life and Faith of Bono
Christian History Almanac
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The Unforgettable Fire
1987 saw u2 reach the summit with joshwattree preserved by the national recording registry as culturally historically or aesthetically significant. It's the fastest selling british album of all time one of the best selling albums of the year of all time uh rather it made them super stars and the the album starts as if from inside a church check out the beginning right here with where the streets have no name so So At one point a car is seen driving through what appears to be an empty parking lot in New York City on its way to Los Angeles. The song was written for Martin Luther King, Jr. around the time of the unforgettable fire at St. Patrick's Cathedral which burned down
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