![]() ![]() ![]() What to do? As Bono told a Dublin crowd in the late 80s: “We have to go away and dream it all up again.” The band themselves even called their own subsequent Lovetown tour as “a dead-end street.” U2 suddenly became the most loved/hated rock band on the planet. That ‘toying’ with Americana certainly delivered the expected hits ( Angel Of Harlem, the Bo Diddley-esque Desire, the BB King duet When Love Comes To Town) but even some U2 fans found the album too much of a pastiche, too forced. The band had been stung by media criticism of The Joshua Tree’s follow-up, the half studio/half live Rattle And Hum (1988). READ MORE: The Edge’s 20 greatest guitar moments, ranked. ![]() As Larry Mullen Jr put it, “We were the biggest, but we weren’t the best.” They were a major stadium act, but creatively they were faltering. They didn’t just play shows, they played megashows. The Joshua Tree had turned them from stars into megastars. As the 1980s became the 90s, U2 found themselves at a crossroads. ![]()
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