Eight months after The Unforgettable Hearth and 21 earlier than The Joshua Tree, U2 made themselves accessible on prolonged play. The quartet launched the four-track Broad Awake In America EP in North America and Japan on June 10, 1985. They noticed it turn into an important staging publish of their file schedule.
The EP gave followers an early probability to personal two performances from the Unforgettable Hearth tour that accompanied that new album within the autumn of 1984. From U2’s efficiency on the Nationwide Exhibition Centre in Birmingham on November 12 got here “Bad.” Then from the Wembley Area present in London three nights later, they captured and launched “A Sort Of Homecoming.” Certainly, it was the tune “Bad” that impressed the EP’s title. The tune included the lyric “I’m wide awake, wide awake, I’m not sleeping.”
Rounding up rarities
The flipside of the EP was geared toward worldwide followers specifically. It included two tracks that had been B-sides of singles, however solely within the UK. U2’s manufacturing collaboration with Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois on “The Three Sunrises” was accompanied by “Love Comes Tumbling.” Each songs had featured on the UK launch of The Unforgettable Hearth as its second single, solely two months earlier in April 1985.
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Broad Awake In America reached No.37 within the US, later reaching platinum certification. “The Three Sunrises,” in the meantime, turned a rock radio hit. Demand for the EP was such that it was finally granted a British launch, two years later in July 1987. There, it certified for the album chart and reached No.11 in late August that 12 months, throughout a 15-week run within the Prime 100.
In April 2018, Island reissued Broad Awake In America in a 180 gram vinyl version alongside two extra U2 landmarks, 1997’s Pop and 2000’s All That You Can’t Go away Behind.
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