Trivia / The Joshua Tree

• What Could Have Been: Bono liked the B-sides so much that he wanted to release them in a double album, but the others nixed the idea. He was partly vindicated when a new recording of "The Sweetest Thing" became a hit single in the 1990s. "Wave of Sorrow," meanwhile, sat on the shelf for 20 years because it was considered too good to be a B-side, but the band was never able to properly fit it into an album.
• Write Who You Know: Word of God says both "The Sweetest Thing" and "Spanish Eyes" were about Bono's wife Ali. Word of God also says the marriage was stormy at the time; can you tell?

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