Blessed are the tin can and cardboard slums

Blessed is the spirit that overcomes

Ok, this is pretty extraordinary, even for himself. A new (old) unreleased song from U2’s The Joshua Tree sessions. It’s 20 years ago this month that TJT was released and the boys are giving us a taste of “Wave of Sorrow,” a song Bono wrote about his experiences in Ethiopia during the famine of 1985-86.


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