WITH OR WITHOUT YOU - U2 - 1987

NEWS

• The “Black Monday” stock market fall. (Monday, October 19TH)

• Prozac would hit the market.

• President Regan was in the thick of the Iran-Contra affair.

• Hustler Magazine & the Rev. Jerry Falwell went before the Supreme Court.  

• Senator Gary Hart gets caught with Donna Rice.

• Jim Bakker admitted committing adultery with a church secretary named Jessica Hann.

• The FCC rescinds the Fairness Doctrine, which had required radio and television stations to "fairly" present controversial issues.

 

FADS and ENTERTAINMENT

• MOVIES: “3 Men & a Baby” “Dirty Dancing” “Good Morning Viet Nam” and “Lethal Weapon”

• T.V.: “Married…with Children”, “Matlock” and “The Simpsons” cartoon first appears on “The Tracy Ullman Show”.

• The Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin is the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

• Pi is calculated out to 134 million decimal places with no end in sight.

• “Bonfire of the Vanities” Tom Wolfe’s first novel is published.

 

#1@1

• From the Joshua Tree album.

• The song originated from a demo recorded in late 1985 that the group continued to work on throughout The Joshua Tree sessions.

• It is U2's second most frequently covered song.

• In 2010, Rolling Stone magazine placed the song at number 132 on their list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".

• The song features sustained guitar parts played by guitarist The Edge with a prototype of the Infinite Guitar, created by Michael Brook, as a way of allowing an electric guitar note to be held with infinite sustain (hence the name)

• U-2 ”With or Without You” you’re #1 @ 1 from May 1987