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Elvis Presley and America

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improvising the lyrics while listening to the music for the first time. Bono viewed the vocal as a rough sketch, intending to write proper lyrics and rearrange the vocal at a later point. However, Lanois, Brian Eno and later everyone else felt that they'd captured a unique quality in the vocal
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which was not flattering to the late singer. This would not be the last time that Bono disagreed with Goldman's portrayal of a rock legend. The singer would later call out Goldman by name in "
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This song was almost entirely a spur of the moment creation. Musically, it takes its instrumentation from a slowed down backing track of "
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said that he became frustrated while mixing that song and consequently slowed down the
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from 30 inches per second to 22. The vocals are the result of lead singer
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performance that would be hard to recapture, so they kept it.
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Bashe, Philip (December 1984). "Pluck of the Irish".
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"Elvis Presley and America"
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JSTOR
Song
U2
The Unforgettable Fire
Genre
Art rock
ambient
Label
Island
Composer(s)
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Bono
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Brian Eno
Daniel Lanois
U2
The Unforgettable Fire
A Sort of Homecoming
Daniel Lanois
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