It reached number 1 in New Zealand, the first time a U2 single topped a country's singles chart. It gained considerable US album-oriented rock radio airplay and its video was on heavy rotation on MTV, thus helping U2 continue its commercial breakthrough begun with the War album. The song was the band's first top 40 hit in the United States where it peaked at number 33. "Pride" reached number 3 on the UK Singles Chart. The original (black and white) Cammell video was primarily used in promotion. The U2 camp was also unimpressed with this video and a third video is produced by compiling footage shot during The Unforgettable Fire recording sessions at Slane Castle. The second video was filmed in a basement near London's Heathrow Airport, it features U2 standing sternly in front of a wall under poor lighting conditions. The band were not satisfied with Cammell's video, and they agreed to their principal photographer, Anton Corbijn, shooting an alternative. Two versions of this video exist black and white and colour (sepia). The first was shot in August by director Donald Cammell and features opening and closing shots of the Dublin Docklands area. The song follows a chord progression of B-E–A–F ♯m and the solo is B–D–E–E. "Pride" is in the key of B, and is played at a tempo of 106 bpm. Bono acknowledges the error and in live performances he often changes the lyric to "Early evening." The error was corrected on the acoustic version of the song included on the group's 2023 album Songs of Surrender the updated lyric is "In the evening, April 4". The song contains the erroneous reference to King's shooting as "Early morning, April 4," when it actually occurred after 6 p.m. She was married to Jim Kerr of Simple Minds at the time and she is credited as "Christine Kerr". It is emotionally very articulate - if you didn't speak English." Ĭhrissie Hynde of the Pretenders sang backing vocals on the recording. In U2 by U2, Bono said: "I looked at how glorious that song was and thought: 'What the fuck is that all about?' It's just a load of vowel sounds ganging up on a great man. He says that he was swayed by the Edge and producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, who played down the need to develop the lyrics as they thought their impressionistic nature would give added forcefulness to the song's feeling, particularly when heard by non-English speakers. In subsequent years, Bono has expressed his dissatisfaction with the lyrics, which he describes, along with another Unforgettable Fire song, " Bad", as being "left as simple sketches". and a biography of Malcolm X caused the lyricist Bono to ponder the different sides of the civil rights campaigns, the violent and the non-violent. Oates's book Let The Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. The song had been intended to be based on Ronald Reagan's pride in America's military power, but Stephen B. "Pride" was further worked on at Slane Castle during the recording sessions for The Unforgettable Fire, and was ultimately completed at Windmill Lane Studios. After the tour concluded, the group continued to work on the track at lead vocalist Bono's home in a Martello tower in Bray, County Wicklow, where the Edge devised a guitar part for the song. Guitarist the Edge led the group with a series of chord changes during the soundcheck, but after someone made a mistake, the other members picked up on it and changed course, providing a "new twist" to the improvisation, according to Niall Stokes. The melody and the chords for "Pride" were improvised by U2 during a soundcheck prior to a November 1983 concert in Hawaii on the band's War Tour. The song was included on The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked it 378th on its list of " The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". It appeared on the band's compilation albums The Best of 1980–1990 and U218 Singles and was reworked and re-recorded for Songs of Surrender (2023). Written about the American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., "Pride" received mixed critical reviews at the time, but it was a major commercial success for U2 and has since become one of their most popular songs. The song was produced by Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois. It is the second track on the band's 1984 album, The Unforgettable Fire, and was released as its lead single in September 1984. " Pride (In the Name of Love)" is a song by Irish rock band U2.
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