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Speaker 1: Let Me tell You a Story on Time Cleary and

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Speaker 1: leases the story.

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Speaker 2: Behind the song.

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Speaker 3: Today's song is Sunday Bloody Sunday by You Two. It

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Speaker 3: is the opening track from their nineteen eighty three album War,

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Speaker 3: one of You Two's most overtly political songs. It's lyrics

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Speaker 3: described the horror felt by an observer of the troubles

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Speaker 3: in Northern Ireland, mainly focusing on the nineteen seventy two

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Speaker 3: Bloody Sunday incident in Derry, where British troops shot and

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Speaker 3: killed unarmed civil rights protesters.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely. Bono has said in the past that he

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Speaker 2: himself believes he's a militant pacifist, which I thought it

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Speaker 2: was an interesting way of putting it, but it didn't

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Speaker 2: mean that he didn't get very very strong in the

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Speaker 2: way that he wrote his lyrics and also worked with

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Speaker 2: those riffs that The Edge came up with. Yeah, he's

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Speaker 2: Bono talking about the writing of Sunday Bloody Sunday.

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Speaker 1: When we wrote Sunday Bloody Sunday, I just try it

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Speaker 1: as a lyrics. It's not much of a lyric really,

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Speaker 1: but it's it has one original thought, which is it

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Speaker 1: contrasts Easter Sunday, which was the rising in Ireland. It's

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Speaker 1: one hundred years actually in twenty sixteen, one hundred years

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Speaker 1: since nineteen sixteen when Ireland rose up at Easter in

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Speaker 1: revolt against Britain. And it can trast Sunday Bloody Sunday,

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Speaker 1: which was a massacre that happened in Derry in the

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Speaker 1: early seventies where British paratroopers opened fire on a peaceful protest.

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Speaker 1: It can trast these events with the Resurrection.

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Speaker 3: And that was a bit of a trip.

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Speaker 1: I think that was audacious at the very least to

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Speaker 1: do that.

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Speaker 3: During its earliest performances, Sunday Bloody Sunday did create controversy,

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Speaker 3: as you can imagine. Bonno reasserted the song's anti sectarian

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Speaker 3: violence message to his audience for many years, but dram

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Speaker 3: and Larry Mullen said of the song, where into the

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Speaker 3: politics of people. We're not into politics. You talk about

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Speaker 3: Sunday Bloody Sunday and people think all that time when

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Speaker 3: thirteen Catholics were shot by British soldiers, that's not what

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Speaker 3: the song is about. That is an incident to the

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Speaker 3: most famous incident in Northern Ireland, and it is the

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Speaker 3: strongest way of saying how long? How long do we

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Speaker 3: have to put up with this? He said, let's forget

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Speaker 3: the politics, let's just stop shooting each other. And I

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Speaker 3: guess that's why Bono thinks the song has taken on

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Speaker 3: new meaning in later years.

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Speaker 1: Suddenly the song has taken on a completely new found meaning.

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Speaker 1: On the Innocence and Experience tour, I sing it from

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Speaker 1: this other place, take away. The kind of rock and

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Speaker 1: roll approach is more acoustic, and it seems to mean

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Speaker 1: more now that we have peace. It reminds people, and

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Speaker 1: we used images on the tour to remind people of

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Speaker 1: where where this song came from. It reminds people that

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Speaker 1: the hope I was playing that that the division is

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Speaker 1: never physical like a border. Real borders are in people's hearts,

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Speaker 1: the way we see each other. And and I think

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Speaker 1: that's that can be applied to to all kinds of situations.

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Speaker 2: When they started working on the album, the War album,

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Speaker 2: Bono and he's why then from you know, New Wife,

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Speaker 2: Ali were in the Caribbean on holidays Jamaica, so Edge

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Speaker 2: stayed at time. It would have been a very different

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Speaker 2: album if Edge had been on holidays in Jamaica as well.

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Speaker 3: You know he stayed a very different honeymoon too.

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Speaker 2: Having three of them there. Well they were you too,

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Speaker 2: so you would have been on