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* ThrowItIn: While mixing "A Sort of Homecoming", Brian Eno got frustrated and slowed the tape down. Bono heard it and improvised some vocals and lyrics, thinking he would replace them later. However, Eno and Daniel Lanois convinced the band to keep the song as it was. The result? "Elvis Presley And America".
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* CriticalResearchFailure: It's relatively minor, but Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated at 6pm local time on April 4, 1968, not in the "early morning".
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* CriticalResearchFailure: It's relatively minor, but Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated at 6pm local time on April 4, 1968, not in the "early morning".
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: "Pride (In the Name of Love) was originally supposed to be about UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan's Cold War rhetoric. But Bono read a book about the American civil rights movement, and began studying the differences between its peaceful (MLK) and violent (Malcolm X) paths in TheSixties. Bono has subsequently said that the song, as it became, feels like an incomplete sketch.

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* CriticalResearchFailure: It's relatively minor, but Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated at 6pm local time on April 4, 1968, not in the "early morning".
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: "Pride (In the Name of Love) Love)" was originally supposed to be about UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan's Cold War rhetoric. But Bono read a book about the American civil rights movement, and began studying the differences between its peaceful (MLK) and violent (Malcolm X) paths in TheSixties. Bono has subsequently said that the song, as it became, feels like an incomplete sketch.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: It's relatively minor, but Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated at 6pm local time on April 4, 1968, not in the "early morning".
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: "Pride (In the Name of Love) was originally supposed to be about UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan's Cold War rhetoric. But Bono read a book about the American civil rights movement, and began studying the differences between its peaceful (MLK) and violent (Malcolm X) paths in TheSixties. Bono has subsequently said that the song, as it became, feels like an incomplete sketch.

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