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The video depicts a band playing "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)". U2 were cast in the role of the band's guardian angels, watching over the position that corresponds to their instrument in U2. [26] Meret Becker is the lead actress of the video, cast as the band's lead singer. Wenders stated that they "liked the idea that Bono's voice would be sung ...
The final commercial single was "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)", released worldwide on 22 November 1993. [ 67 ] [ 68 ] It was the album's most successful single, topping the Irish Singles Chart [ 69 ] and peaking at number five in Australia, [ 59 ] number six in New Zealand, [ 70 ] number four in the UK, [ 71 ] and number 61 in the US [ 62 ...
Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" is the fifth track from U2's 1993 album, Zooropa, and was released as the album's third single on November 22, 1993. It was released on the soundtrack for the Wim Wenders film, Faraway, So Close! .
Faraway, So Close! (German: In weiter Ferne, so nah!) is a 1993 German fantasy film directed by Wim Wenders, who co-wrote the screenplay with Richard Reitinger and Ulrich Zieger. It is a sequel to Wenders' 1987 film Wings of Desire. [n 1] Actors Otto Sander, Bruno Ganz and Peter Falk reprise their roles as angels who have become human.
Its first release was on a 1993 single, "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)", and performed solely by Bono and the Edge. In 1997, U2 had the opportunity to record it with Nelson. This version features the entire band, in addition to vocals by Nelson and harmonica by Mickey Raphael. Bono and Brian Eno provide backing vocals.
Against many odds — of age, of personal change, of shifts in attitude about authenticity and delusions of grandeur — “U2:UV” does come off managing to feel like actual rock ‘n’ roll.
U2 thought they would have a new record completed in time for 1999. [3] After the band's brief demo sessions, The Edge worked alone on song ideas before the band reunited at Hanover Quays. [ 3 ] They recorded with the mentality of a "band in a room playing together", an approach that led to the album's more stripped-down sound. [ 3 ]
In another scene, U2 are seen walking down the street when Bono is run over by a car (driven by Elvis) while reading a copy of C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters. The next scene shows Bono in the hospital flatlining and about to die, when a bolt of red lightning strikes his heart monitor turning his skin white, his shirt red, and causing his ...