WITH OR WITHOUT YOU U2 TV
It was performed on more than 75 percent of the LoveTown shows, and at the majority of the Zoo TV and PopMart concerts. “With or Without You” debuted during The Joshua Tree Tour and has been played extensively on every tour since that time. She would marry The Edge in June of 2002. The members of U2 would not meet her until 1993, when she took over the role of belly dancer on The Zoo TV Tour.
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The woman in the video is Morleigh Steinberg, a professional dancer and choreographer, who was filmed separately from the band. This version of the video can be found on The Best of 1980-1990 and U218 Videos compilations. Because the Avis video featured footage from the first video, you will often see Mahurin and Avis listed as directors for this second version. Interspersed with this is some footage of shadows of tree branches and of a woman-wrapped in a sheet at first, and later naked, again taken from the Mahurin video. The black and white band footage is taken from Mahurin’s video. This version features footage of the band performing the song in both black-and-white and in colour. The video was reshot by Meiert Avis, which is the more common version of the video. This version was released on the DVD accompanying the super deluxe version of The Joshua Tree reissue. There are two videos for “With or Without You.” The first was directed by Matt Mahurin, This version was entirely black-and-white, uses very dark band performance footage and includes more footage of the nude dancer throughout. In Guatemala, a 7-inch single was released with the album track “Mothers of the Disappeared” as the b-side, while in Ecuador, the 7-inch b-side was “Where the Streets Have No Name.” In most territories, the 7-inch, 12-inch, cassette and CD formats included the same three tracks: the album version of “With or Without You” along with two non-album tracks, “Luminous Times (Hold on to Love)” and “Walk to the Water.” In Australia, only “Luminous Times” was on the 7-inch single, and in South Africa, Zimbabwe and The Philippines, only “Walk to the Water” was on the 7-inch single. “With or Without You” was the first U2 single to be released on CD concurrently with other formats.
For CD (as well as the outer “long box” housing the cassette version in some territories), an alternate photo was used, with The Edge looking to one side. On vinyl and cassette formats, The Edge is looking forward. The single sleeve, shot by Anton Corbijn, featured a black-and-white photo of The Edge sitting on arid, sandy ground with his shadow stretched behind him. This error was unfortunately picked up and used in the liner notes for the U218 Singles compilation. A listing for the single on ’s previous incarnation, U2Wanderer, mistakenly reversed the US and Canadian chart positions, placing “With or Without You” at #2 in the US and #1 in Canada. Upon release, “With or Without You” quickly climbed the charts in most countries and rewarded U2 with their first number 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100. The Infinite Guitar gave the song the magic touch that had been missing, and the finished version was considered so strong that it was selected as the album’s first single.
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A breakthrough came when The Edge was given a prototype Infinite Guitar by the instrument’s creator, Michael Brook (whom he had worked with on the Captive movie soundtrack). The song was almost abandoned at one point during the recording of The Joshua Tree, but Bono and Gavin Friday continued to work on it. “With or Without You” was further developed in sessions at STS Studios, and later, Danesmoate House. The song first began to take shape at the conclusion of The Unforgettable Fire Tour in 1985, when U2 gathered to review songs that had not been completed for that album. It was also the first U2 single to be issued by Island Records in Ireland, following the completion of U2’s agreement with CBS Records to release singles in that country (the final U2 single on CBS being “The Unforgettable Fire”). “With or Without You” was released worldwide as the first single to promote The Joshua Tree album.
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