U2 concluded their first residency at Las Vegas’ remarkable Sphere, marking the end of a 40-show series that began in September. During the performances, the band revisited one of their most successful albums, the chart-topping 1991 release “Achtung Baby.” To pay homage to the album, U2 members Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Bram van den Berg welcomed Achtung Baby producer Daniel Lanois to join them on stage Saturday night, performing and singing on the track “One.”
“There would be no Achtung Baby without Daniel Lanois,” Bono said as he welcomed him up the stairs, asking the audience to “Show him your light.”
Apart from honoring the people who helped U2 become U2, Bono, ahead of performing “All I Want Is You”, pointed at the VIP section and said that he would want to dedicate this particular song from their 1988 album Rattle and Hum to the First Lady Jill Biden.
“This song, when we wrote it, I tried to write the lyrics from the point of view of the woman or the bride, in this case, which is pretty arrogant, I suppose. That was a trick for me to get to the lyric I was playing on myself,” explained Bono.
“Tonight, I want to dedicate it to all the great women in our lives — our partners, our mothers, our daughters, all the women on the U2 crew, all the great women in our audience that we feel we know, and all the great women in parts of the world going through very difficult circumstances that we could never know. And one woman in particular who is with us tonight, she’s a teacher. She’s your First Lady, so this is for Jill Biden,” he added.
Because of Jill’s presence, there was extra security and bomb-sniffing dogs were also present at the VIP drop-off and in the garage.
As per local media, Jill arrived in Las Vegas on Saturday for a campaign event for her husband President Biden’s re-election efforts.
Closer to the top of the show, Bono explained how the band was feeling at the end of this groundbreaking run.
“Look where we get to go to work. Welcome to the last night of Achtung Baby at the Sphere. This evening we are not just getting married in an Elvis chapel, we are getting married in an Elvis cathedral. We are feeling very much alive. Grateful to be alive, and in quite a flirtatious mood actually.”
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