With Or Without You - Muziek
With Or Without You by U2
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Biografie van de kunstenaar U2
U2 Is An Irish Alternative Rock Band From Dublin Formed In 1976. The Group Consists Of Bono Lead Vocals And Rhythm Guitar The Edge Lead Guitar Keyboards And Backing Vocals Adam Clayton Bass Guitar And Larry Mullen Jr. Drums And Percussion . Initially Rooted In Post-Punk U2's Musical Style Evolved Throughout Their Career Yet Has Maintained An Anthemic Sound Built On Bono's Expressive Vocals And The Edge's Effects-Based Guitar Textures. Their Lyrics Often Embellished With Spiritual Imagery Focus On Personal And Sociopolitical Themes. Popular For Their Live Performances The Group Has Staged Several Ambitious And Elaborate Tours Over Their Career. The Band Formed At Mount Temple Comprehensive School In 1976 When The Members Were Teenagers With Limited Musical Proficiency. Within Four Years They Signed With Island Records And Released Their Debut Album Boy 1980 . Subsequent Work Such As Their First UK Number-One Album War 1983 And The Singles "Sunday Bloody Sunday" And "Pride In The Name Of Love " Helped Establish U2's Reputation As A Politically And Socially Conscious Group. By The Mid-1980s They Had Become Renowned Globally For Their Live Act Highlighted By Their Performance At Live Aid In 1985. The Group's Fifth Album The Joshua Tree 1987 Made Them International Superstars And Was Their Greatest Critical And Commercial Success. Topping Music Charts Around The World It Produced Their Only Number-One Singles In The US "With Or Without You" And "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For". Facing Creative Stagnation And A Backlash Following Their Documentary/double Album Rattle And Hum 1988 U2 Reinvented Themselves In The 1990s Through A New Musical Direction And Public Image. Beginning With Their Acclaimed Seventh Album Achtung Baby 1991 And The Multimedia-Intensive Zoo TV Tour The Band Integrated Influences From Alternative Rock Electronic Dance Music And Industrial Music Into Their Sound And Embraced A More Ironic Flippant Image. This Experimentation Continued Through Their Ninth Album Pop 1997 And The PopMart Tour Which Were Mixed Successes. U2 Regained Critical And Commercial Favour With The Records All That You Can't Leave Behind 2000 And How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb 2004 Which Established A More Conventional Mainstream Sound For The Group. Their U2 360 Tour Of 2009–2011 Is The Highest-Attended And Highest-Grossing Concert Tour In History. The Group's Thirteenth Album Songs Of Innocence 2014 Was Released At No Cost Through The ITunes Store But Received Criticism For Its Automatic Placement In Users' Music Libraries. U2 Has Released 14 Studio Albums And Is One Of The World's Best-Selling Music Artists In History Having Sold More Than 170 Million Records Worldwide. They Have Won 22 Grammy Awards More Than Any Other Band And In 2005 They Were Inducted Into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame In Their First Year Of Eligibility. Rolling Stone Ranked U2 At Number 22 On Its List Of The "100 Greatest Artists Of All Time". Throughout Their Career As A Band And As Individuals They Have Campaigned For Human Rights And Philanthropic Causes Including Amnesty International Jubilee 2000 The ONE/DATA Campaigns Product Red War Child And Music Rising. Foundation The Band Originally Formed In 1976 When Larry Mullen Posted A Bulletin In His School Asking For Musicians To Form A Rock Band. The Band Then Consisted Of The Four Current Members Plus Three Additional Guitarists Including The Edge’s Brother Dick Evans Later A Member Of Virgin Prunes Ivan McCormick And Peter Martin. According To Legend Bono Originally Auditioned As A Guitarist But Couldn’t Play. He Auditioned As Lead Vocals But Really Couldn’t Sing. He Was However Incredibly Enthusiastic About The Band Extremely Charismatic A Great Writer And Was Strangely Able To Reach The Audience When The Band Played Something He Is Known For Still Today. Bono Will Reach Out Into The Crowd And Dance Or Mess With Someone In The Crowd At Every Concert. He Was Kept As A Member. The Extra Guitarists Would Soon Leave The Band And The Group Would Go Through The Names “Feedback ” And “The Hype” Before Finally Settling On U2. The 70s & 80s 1978 Was A Jumping Point Year For The Band Finally Finding Their Sound / Voice. U2 Won A Talent Contest In 1978 £500 And Funds To Make A Record. Paul McGuinness Became The Band’s Manager And U2 Released An EP Called Three And The Single Another Day The Following Year. U2 Went On To Release Their First Album Boy And Then More Critically Acclaimed Albums Incl. October War Under A Blood Red Sky And The Unforgettable Fire Featuring The Song PlayMLK Dedicated To Martin Luther King Jr . Seen By Many As A Political Band With More Charisma Than Others They Were Called “a Different Kind” Of Band. After A Short Break U2 Returned With The Joshua Tree & The USA Music Inspired Rattle And Hum Also A Movie Of The Same Name Based On The Tour . The 90s Promising ”to Dream It All Up Again” They Added Industrial And Dance Styles To Their Music. Trying To Drop A Goody Two Shoes Image They Went To Berlin Germany Supposedly To Develop New Self-Expressions. From There They Started To Make Fun Of Themselves And Had A Good Time Of It In Albums Like Achtung Baby Meaning ”watch Out Baby” Artwork Feat. Make-Up Artist Nassim Khalifa & Zooropa. Bono Took On Many Stage Personae Such As “The Fly” “Mirrorball Man” And “Mr. MacPhisto” For The Gigantic ZOO TV Tour. Later They Continued To Make Fun Of Pop Culture And All Its Extremes With The Album Pop And Consequent PopMart Tour Which Was Announced To Be Launched At A Kmart Store And Included A Giant Golden Arch Across The Stage. The 00s At The End Of The 90’s Into 00’s U2 Became Less Image And More Reality. With The Death Of Bono’s Good Friend Michael Hutchence The Lead Singer Of INXS Bono Wrote More Songs From The Heart Surrounding Ideas Like Life And Death Children Hope And The Real World Past All The Pop Culture And TV. Some Say They’ve Returned To A More Band-Centric Sound With Albums Like All That You Can’t Leave Behind Which Features A Song Kite Dedicated To Bono’s Father Who Passed Away Shortly After The Album’s Conception And 2004’s How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb. The 10s U2 Went On The U2 360 Tour In 2009 And 2010. This Tour Set Records For The Highest-Grossing Concert Tour. The Band Worked With Producer Danger Mouse For Their Thirteenth Album Songs Of Innocence Which Was Released On 9 September 2014 For Free To All Apple ICloud Users. The Name There Are Many Theories As To The Origin Of The Name U2. For Example U2 Was An Intelligence Airplane That Was In Use By The United States During The Cold War. Other Obvious Candidates Include “You Too” And “You Two” Etc. Nonetheless The Official Line On The Name’s Origins Remains Unknown. The Band Has Been Quoted As Saying That They Did Think Of The U2 Spy Plane But Remain Hushed About Other Reasons… U2
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U2 - The Joshua Tree
"With Or Without You" Is The Lead Single From U2's 1987 Album The Joshua Tree. It Has Since Become Highly-Acclaimed As One Of The Band's Most Popular Songs. Released As A Single In March 1987 It Became The Group's First American #1 Hit Spending Three Weeks At The Top. It Also Reached #4 In The UK And #2 On The Dutch Top 40. According To Bono The Song Was Heavily Influenced By Scott Walker's Album Climate Of Hunter. It Was U2's First Single To Be Widely Issued On CD. The Song Is U2's Second Most Frequently Covered Song. In Addition To Topping The Billboard Hot 100 The Song Reached #1 On The Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks Chart And Was The Second U2 Song To Enter Any Other Billboard Chart Specifically The Adult Contemporary Chart After "Pride In The Name Of Love ". In Addition The Song Spent Eleven Weeks In The Top 75 Of The UK Singles Chart. The Song Also Re-Entered The UK Singles Chart At Number 43 Based On Download Sales Alone On The Week Ending May 31 2009. In 2004 Rolling Stone Magazine Placed The Single At Number 131 On Their List Of The 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time. "With Or Without You" Is Written In The Key Of D Major. There Are Large Sections Of The Song Where The Harmony Rests On The D Chord In The Sections It Does Not The Band Implies A D - A/C# - Bm7 - Gsus2 Chord Progression. This Chord Progression Is Implied By The Roots Notes Played By Bassist Adam Clayton And The Guitar Parts Of The Edge. The Edge's Sustained Guitar Part Is Achieved Using A Device Dubbed "Infinite Guitar". The Edge Explained "It Has A Similar Effect To The E-Bow But The Disadvantage Of The E-Bow Is That It's Either On Or Off Whereas This Gives You All The Mid-Points Between No Sustain And Infinite Sustain And Different Levels Of 'emergence' Of The Note." "With Or Without You" Was First Played Live At The Second Show On The Joshua Tree Tour On 4 April 1987 And Was A Regular For The Rest Of That Tour. It Was Played At Most Shows On 1989's Lovetown Tour. During These Tours Two Extensions To The Song Not Present On The Studio Version Were Played An Extra Verse With Lyrics That Typically Read "we'll Shine Like Stars In The Summer Night/we'll Shine Like Stars In The Winter Light/one Heart One Hope One Love" Or Modifications Thereof Which Appears On The Rattle And Hum Movie And A Snippet Of Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart" Which Can Be Heard On The ITunes Exclusive "Live From Paris" Along With The Lyrics "we'll Shine Like Stars..." And Is Also Part Of The Bonus DVD Released With The Remastered Box Set Version Of The Joshua Tree. Since The PopMart Tour It Has Been More Common For Bono To Repeat The "Ohh" At The Climax Of The Song With The "shine Like Stars" Verse Sung Rarely. "With Or Without You" Was Played At Most Zoo TV Tour Concerts And Every Concert On The PopMart Tour. It Was Dropped From The Setlist During The Third Leg Of The Elevation Tour It Was Last Played On The 13th Of October 2001 At The Copps Coliseum In Hamilton. It Was Initially A Rare Inclusion During The Vertigo Tour - Over The Two Months Of The Vertigo Tour's First Leg It Was Only Played Four Times. It Became A Regular Concert Inclusion During Stadium Concerts On The Second Leg In Europe And Remained In The Setlist For The Third Leg. It Has Been Played On Every Night Of The 360 Tour Thus Far. Unlike Most Songs In U2's Live Catalogue This Song Has Been Played With Several Different Guitars With Edge Seeming To Pick A New Model For Each Tour. Over The Joshua Tree Tour Lovetown Tour And Early Legs Of The Zoo TV Tour He Used A Fender Stratocaster Equipped With An Infinite Guitar System. For Later Legs Of The Zoo TV Tour He Switched To The Gibson Les Paul Custom And Used An E-Bow To Generate The Song's Sustained Notes. He Started On The PopMart Tour His Now Trend Of Using Fernandes Guitars To Perform The Song. On The PopMart Tour Elevation Tour And Vertigo Tour He Has Used Respectively The Decade Native Pro And Retrorocket Elite Models. Each One Is Equipped With A Special Sustainer Which Is Why They Are Used For This Song. The Fernandes Models Have Frequently Been The Only Guitars Edge Purchases New As Opposed To The Rest Of His Guitar Collection Which Are All Vintage Models.
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U2 Is An Irish Alternative Rock Band From Dublin Formed In 1976. The Group Consists Of Bono Lead Vocals And Rhythm Guitar The Edge Lead Guitar Keyboards And Backing Vocals Adam Clayton Bass Guitar And Larry Mullen Jr. Drums And Percussion . Initially Rooted In Post-Punk U2's Musical Style Evolved Throughout Their Career Yet Has Maintained An Anthemic Sound Built On Bono's Expressive Vocals And The Edge's Effects-Based Guitar Textures. Their Lyrics Often Embellished With Spiritual Imagery Focus On Personal And Sociopolitical Themes. Popular For Their Live Performances The Group Has Staged Several Ambitious And Elaborate Tours Over Their Career. The Band Formed At Mount Temple Comprehensive School In 1976 When The Members Were Teenagers With Limited Musical Proficiency. Within Four Years They Signed With Island Records And Released Their Debut Album Boy 1980 . Subsequent Work Such As Their First UK Number-One Album War 1983 And The Singles "Sunday Bloody Sunday" And "Pride In The Name Of Love " Helped Establish U2's Reputation As A Politically And Socially Conscious Group. By The Mid-1980s They Had Become Renowned Globally For Their Live Act Highlighted By Their Performance At Live Aid In 1985. The Group's Fifth Album The Joshua Tree 1987 Made Them International Superstars And Was Their Greatest Critical And Commercial Success. Topping Music Charts Around The World It Produced Their Only Number-One Singles In The US "With Or Without You" And "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For". Facing Creative Stagnation And A Backlash Following Their Documentary/double Album Rattle And Hum 1988 U2 Reinvented Themselves In The 1990s Through A New Musical Direction And Public Image. Beginning With Their Acclaimed Seventh Album Achtung Baby 1991 And The Multimedia-Intensive Zoo TV Tour The Band Integrated Influences From Alternative Rock Electronic Dance Music And Industrial Music Into Their Sound And Embraced A More Ironic Flippant Image. This Experimentation Continued Through Their Ninth Album Pop 1997 And The PopMart Tour Which Were Mixed Successes. U2 Regained Critical And Commercial Favour With The Records All That You Can't Leave Behind 2000 And How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb 2004 Which Established A More Conventional Mainstream Sound For The Group. Their U2 360 Tour Of 2009–2011 Is The Highest-Attended And Highest-Grossing Concert Tour In History. The Group's Thirteenth Album Songs Of Innocence 2014 Was Released At No Cost Through The ITunes Store But Received Criticism For Its Automatic Placement In Users' Music Libraries. U2 Has Released 14 Studio Albums And Is One Of The World's Best-Selling Music Artists In History Having Sold More Than 170 Million Records Worldwide. They Have Won 22 Grammy Awards More Than Any Other Band And In 2005 They Were Inducted Into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame In Their First Year Of Eligibility. Rolling Stone Ranked U2 At Number 22 On Its List Of The "100 Greatest Artists Of All Time". Throughout Their Career As A Band And As Individuals They Have Campaigned For Human Rights And Philanthropic Causes Including Amnesty International Jubilee 2000 The ONE/DATA Campaigns Product Red War Child And Music Rising. Foundation The Band Originally Formed In 1976 When Larry Mullen Posted A Bulletin In His School Asking For Musicians To Form A Rock Band. The Band Then Consisted Of The Four Current Members Plus Three Additional Guitarists Including The Edge’s Brother Dick Evans Later A Member Of Virgin Prunes Ivan McCormick And Peter Martin. According To Legend Bono Originally Auditioned As A Guitarist But Couldn’t Play. He Auditioned As Lead Vocals But Really Couldn’t Sing. He Was However Incredibly Enthusiastic About The Band Extremely Charismatic A Great Writer And Was Strangely Able To Reach The Audience When The Band Played Something He Is Known For Still Today. Bono Will Reach Out Into The Crowd And Dance Or Mess With Someone In The Crowd At Every Concert. He Was Kept As A Member. The Extra Guitarists Would Soon Leave The Band And The Group Would Go Through The Names “Feedback ” And “The Hype” Before Finally Settling On U2. The 70s & 80s 1978 Was A Jumping Point Year For The Band Finally Finding Their Sound / Voice. U2 Won A Talent Contest In 1978 £500 And Funds To Make A Record. Paul McGuinness Became The Band’s Manager And U2 Released An EP Called Three And The Single Another Day The Following Year. U2 Went On To Release Their First Album Boy And Then More Critically Acclaimed Albums Incl. October War Under A Blood Red Sky And The Unforgettable Fire Featuring The Song PlayMLK Dedicated To Martin Luther King Jr . Seen By Many As A Political Band With More Charisma Than Others They Were Called “a Different Kind” Of Band. After A Short Break U2 Returned With The Joshua Tree & The USA Music Inspired Rattle And Hum Also A Movie Of The Same Name Based On The Tour . The 90s Promising ”to Dream It All Up Again” They Added Industrial And Dance Styles To Their Music. Trying To Drop A Goody Two Shoes Image They Went To Berlin Germany Supposedly To Develop New Self-Expressions. From There They Started To Make Fun Of Themselves And Had A Good Time Of It In Albums Like Achtung Baby Meaning ”watch Out Baby” Artwork Feat. Make-Up Artist Nassim Khalifa & Zooropa. Bono Took On Many Stage Personae Such As “The Fly” “Mirrorball Man” And “Mr. MacPhisto” For The Gigantic ZOO TV Tour. Later They Continued To Make Fun Of Pop Culture And All Its Extremes With The Album Pop And Consequent PopMart Tour Which Was Announced To Be Launched At A Kmart Store And Included A Giant Golden Arch Across The Stage. The 00s At The End Of The 90’s Into 00’s U2 Became Less Image And More Reality. With The Death Of Bono’s Good Friend Michael Hutchence The Lead Singer Of INXS Bono Wrote More Songs From The Heart Surrounding Ideas Like Life And Death Children Hope And The Real World Past All The Pop Culture And TV. Some Say They’ve Returned To A More Band-Centric Sound With Albums Like All That You Can’t Leave Behind Which Features A Song Kite Dedicated To Bono’s Father Who Passed Away Shortly After The Album’s Conception And 2004’s How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb. The 10s U2 Went On The U2 360 Tour In 2009 And 2010. This Tour Set Records For The Highest-Grossing Concert Tour. The Band Worked With Producer Danger Mouse For Their Thirteenth Album Songs Of Innocence Which Was Released On 9 September 2014 For Free To All Apple ICloud Users. The Name There Are Many Theories As To The Origin Of The Name U2. For Example U2 Was An Intelligence Airplane That Was In Use By The United States During The Cold War. Other Obvious Candidates Include “You Too” And “You Two” Etc. Nonetheless The Official Line On The Name’s Origins Remains Unknown. The Band Has Been Quoted As Saying That They Did Think Of The U2 Spy Plane But Remain Hushed About Other Reasons… U2
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"With or Without You" is the lead single from U2's 1987 album, The Joshua Tree. It has since become highly-acclaimed as one of the band's most popular songs. Released as a single in March 1987, it became the group's first American #1 hit, spending three weeks at the top. It also reached #4 in the UK and #2 on the Dutch Top 40.
According to Bono, the song was heavily influenced by Scott Walker's album Climate of Hunter. It was U2's first single to be widely issued on CD. The song is U2's second most frequently covered song.
In addition to topping the Billboard Hot 100, the song reached #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and was the second U2 song to enter any other Billboard chart (specifically, the Adult Contemporary chart) after "Pride (In the Name of Love)". In addition, the song spent eleven weeks in the top 75 of the UK Singles Chart. The song also re-entered the UK Singles Chart at number 43 based on download sales alone on the week ending May 31, 2009.
In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine placed the single at number 131 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
"With or Without You" is written in the key of D major. There are large sections of the song where the harmony rests on the D chord; in the sections it does not, the band implies a D - A/C# - Bm7 - Gsus2 chord progression. This chord progression is implied by the roots notes played by bassist Adam Clayton and the guitar parts of The Edge. The Edge's sustained guitar part is achieved using a device dubbed "Infinite Guitar". The Edge explained, "It has a similar effect to the E-Bow, but the disadvantage of the E-Bow is that it's either on or off, whereas this gives you all the mid-points between no sustain and infinite sustain, and different levels of 'emergence' of the note."
"With or Without You" was first played live at the second show on the Joshua Tree Tour on 4 April 1987, and was a regular for the rest of that tour. It was played at most shows on 1989's Lovetown Tour. During these tours, two extensions to the song not present on the studio version were played: an extra verse with lyrics that typically read "we'll shine like stars in the summer night/we'll shine like stars in the winter light/one heart, one hope, one love" or modifications thereof, which appears on the Rattle and Hum movie; and a snippet of Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart" which can be heard on the iTunes exclusive "Live from Paris" along with the lyrics "we'll shine like stars..." and is also part of the Bonus DVD released with the remastered box set version of The Joshua Tree. Since the PopMart Tour, it has been more common for Bono to repeat the "Ohh" at the climax of the song, with the "shine like stars" verse sung rarely.
"With or Without You" was played at most Zoo TV Tour concerts and every concert on the PopMart Tour. It was dropped from the setlist during the third leg of the Elevation Tour, it was last played on the 13th of October 2001 at the Copps Coliseum in Hamilton. It was initially a rare inclusion during the Vertigo Tour - over the two months of the Vertigo Tour's first leg, it was only played four times. It became a regular concert inclusion during stadium concerts on the second leg in Europe and remained in the setlist for the third leg. It has been played on every night of the 360 tour thus far.
Unlike most songs in U2's live catalogue, this song has been played with several different guitars, with Edge seeming to pick a new model for each tour. Over the Joshua Tree Tour, Lovetown Tour and early legs of the Zoo TV Tour, he used a Fender Stratocaster equipped with an Infinite Guitar system. For later legs of the Zoo TV Tour, he switched to the Gibson Les Paul Custom, and used an E-bow to generate the song's sustained notes. He started on the PopMart Tour his now trend of using Fernandes guitars to perform the song. On the PopMart Tour, Elevation Tour and Vertigo Tour, he has used (respectively) the Decade, Native Pro and Retrorocket Elite models. Each one is equipped with a special sustainer, which is why they are used for this song. The Fernandes models have frequently been the only guitars Edge purchases new, as opposed to the rest of his guitar collection, which are all vintage models. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.