It has been performed at every concert of The Joshua Tree, PopMart Tour, Innocence + Experience Tour and Experience + Innocence Tours. It is the band's second most frequently performed song with over 1000 performances, only behind Pride (In the Name of Love). The song is included in the 2015 music video game Rock Band 4 as a playable track. It appeared on both the compilation album and video collection The Best of 1980–1990, and in some countries, on the U218 Singles compilation. "I Will Follow" had a second single release as a live version in the Netherlands and Germany in 1982, and a third release in the United States in 1983, taken from the Under a Blood Red Sky album. Record World reviewed the original single release in 1980, describing the song as an "electronic rocker" in which the "urgent vocals match the intense keyboard pulse." For the middle eight section of the song, Lillywhite recorded the sounds of cutlery rubbing against the spokes of a spinning wheel on an upturned bicycle, as well as Bono smashing bottles. The song features a glockenspiel to provide what Bono called "underlying instrumental colouring" it was added at his suggestion, and was played during the Boy recording sessions by him and the Edge. īono has said that he wrote the lyrics from the perspective of his mother Iris, who died in 1974 when he was 14 years old, and that they were about the unconditional love a mother has for her child. Producer Steve Lillywhite stated that Siouxsie and the Banshees guitarist John McKay's playing on the song "Jigsaw Feeling" (1978) was a point of reference for the Edge on "I Will Follow", calling the beginning of both songs "almost identical". Bono said, "It was literally coming out of a kind of rage, the sound of a nail being hammered into your frontal lobe". Frustrated, he took the Edge's guitar from him and "hammer away" on the two-stringed chord the Edge had created to show his bandmates the urgency he wanted. During early rehearsals of the song, the group frequently had loud arguments, as lead vocalist Bono was struggling to convey the aggression for the guitar riff that he was envisioning. "I Will Follow" was written three weeks before U2 began recording Boy. The song was issued five times, first in 1981 on a 7" vinyl in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, second on the same format in the United States and Canada, third in the Netherlands in 1982 with a track from 1981's October, in 1983 with a live version of the song, and finally in 2011 with a live version of the song recorded at the 2011 Glastonbury Festival. The song was U2's first music video, directed by Meiert Avis in Dublin, Ireland. "I Will Follow" is the only song that U2 have performed on every tour since they released their first album. Lead singer Bono wrote the lyrics to "I Will Follow" in tribute to his mother, who died when he was 14 years old. It is the opening track from their debut album, Boy, and it was released as the album's second single in October 1980. " I Will Follow" is a song by rock band U2. " I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight"
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