Music has long been an emotional linchpin humans use to define their memories. A long-forgotten song can fling one years, or even decades, into the past, dropping us in a time thought forever gone. While any song can act as time machine, there are those musicians who have mastered – unconsciously, perhaps – the ability to create a mass migration to times and places long thought forgotten. These bands stand the test of time, lasting decades and remaining relevant long after countless one-hit wonders and short-term musical obsessions have faded into obscurity.
Over the last 33 years, few bands have done this more than U2. Perhaps "New Year's Day" takes you to a crowded bus en route to a rain-soaked 5K or "Bullet the Blue Sky" catapults you to the streets of London and a first kiss. Whatever your personal journey may be, U2 has always been, and will continue to be, a band of memories.
Formed in 1976 in Dublin, Ireland, U2 was different from the start. For them, music was more than girls, money and fame. For U2 music is spiritual. Irish Catholics by upbringing, U2 have long been deeply moved by the world beyond the physical. They've entered the world of the soul, world of the mind, world of memory. So perhaps it is no coincidence that they've recently embarked on their 360ยบ Tour. It seems that U2 is coming full circle and dreaming of memories past.
Published in Las Vegas Magazine 10-18-09
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