Mullen used the click track to stay in time for other songs on the album. A chance meeting with Andy Newmark (of Sly & the Family Stone) – a drummer who used a click track religiously – changed Mullen's mind. to use a click track, but Mullen was firmly against the idea. ĭuring the sessions for "Sunday Bloody Sunday", Lillywhite encouraged drummer Larry Mullen, Jr. In the studio for only half a day, Wickham's electric violin became the final instrumental contribution to the song. A local violinist, Steve Wickham, approached the Edge one morning at a bus stop and asked if U2 had any need for a violin on their next album. The opening drum pattern soon developed into the song's hook. After Bono had reworked the lyrics, the band recorded the song. channeled fear and frustration and self-loathing into a piece of music." Early versions of the song opened with the line, "Don't talk to me about the rights of the IRA, UDA". Following an argument with his girlfriend, and a period of doubt in his own song-writing abilities, the Edge – "feeling depressed. The album's opener, " Sunday Bloody Sunday", an ardent protest song, stems from a guitar riff and lyric written by the Edge in 1982. The band began recording the album in September 1982 at Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin with producer Steve Lillywhite, their third consecutive record at the studio with the producer. The lyrics to " New Year's Day" had its origins in a love song Bono wrote for his wife, but the song was reshaped and inspired by the Polish Solidarity movement. It has been noted that it was not a typical honeymoon, as Bono reportedly worked on the lyrics for the upcoming album. In August 1982, Bono and Ali honeymooned in Jamaica. In 2012, the album was ranked 223rd on Rolling Stone 's list of " The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". The group supported the album with the War Tour through the end of 1983. War received generally favourable reviews, though it was poorly received by some British critics. It reached number 12 in the United States and became the band's first gold-certified album there. War was a commercial success for the band, knocking Michael Jackson's Thriller from the top of the UK charts to become the band's first number-one album there. The album has been described as the record where the band "turned pacifism itself into a crusade." Musically, it is also harsher than the band's previous releases. While the central themes of U2's previous albums Boy and October were adolescence and spirituality, respectively, War focused on both the physical aspects of warfare, and the emotional after-effects. U2 recorded the album from September–November 1982 at Windmill Lane Studios with Lillywhite producing, the group's third consecutive album made at the studio with the producer. The album is regarded as U2's first overtly political album, in part because of songs like " Sunday Bloody Sunday" and " New Year's Day", as well as the title, which stems from the band's perception of the world at the time lead vocalist Bono stated that "war seemed to be the motif for 1982." It was produced by Steve Lillywhite, and was released on 28 February 1983 on Island Records. War is the third studio album by Irish rock band U2.
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