 | God Part IIU2 |
Writer(s): U2 (music), Bono (lyrics) (see lyrics here) Released: October 10, 1988 (album cut) First Charted: October 22, 1988 Peak: 8 AR, 28 MR, 1 DF (Click for codes to charts.) Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 1.52 video, -- streaming |
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About the Song:U2’s 1987 album The Joshua Tree lifted them to superstar status. For their next project, they went with an odd amalgam of part-live and part-studio on Rattle and Hum. The accompanying documentary was intended to follow U2 as they journeyed “through their roots…back through rock & roll music and the blues.” TC The live recordings included covers of the Beatles’ “Helter Skelter” and Jimi Hendrix’s “The Star-Spangled Banner” while the studio material saw them tap Bob Dylan (“Love Rescue Me”) and B.B. King for duets (“When Love Comes to Town”). “Perhaps the most powerful track” TC is “God Part II,” an “answer song to John Lennon’s ‘God.’” WK The song’s arrangement is “butal and angry and bitter…Its emphasis on the bass and drums reflect that.” TC In the original, Lennon lets loose with a list of things he doesn’t believe, concluding that the one thing he does believe in is his wife and himself. “God Part II” follows the same idea. As guitarist The Edge said, it “is really Bono trying to express his own internal feelings of conflict.” TC Bono said, “I attempted to point out the contradictions of John Lennon’s life and times…We’re all full of contradictions; he was just brave enough to own up to them in his songs.” TC The song includes an attack on biographer Albert Goldman (“I don’t believe in Goldman / His type is like a curse / Instant Karma’s gonna get him / If I don’t get him first”). He had recently published a book in which he “cast the ex-Beatle in a particularly harsh light.” TC As Bono said, “I despise Albert Golddigger’s attempt to pick a fight with a dead man.” TC Resources:
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First posted 12/16/2023. |
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