It also appeared on the EP and video Under A Blood Red Sky. You and I Still Havent Found What Im Looking For, U2 became pop stars. The song was also performed for U2's first major appearance on American television, The Tomorrow Show with host Tom Snyder. U2, Irish postpunk band that by the end of the 1980s had established itself. If you have any comments or you notice any errors or missing links then please contact me using the form below. I Will Follow was performed when U2 made their debut on the BBC's Old Grey Whistle Test on February 28, 1981. If you walk away, walk away I walk away, walk away I will follow. Beyond this release, it has been issued in an official capacity many. I Will Follow is one of U2’s most-performed songs, appearing regularly in set lists as recently as 2011’s U2360 Tour. I have also indicated some of the subtle differences in the various labels and picture covers as well as any stickers included on the sleeves. Your eyes make a circle I see you when I go in there Your eyes, your eyes Your eyes, your eyes. Instead, Sunday Bloody Sunday from the U2 Live at Red Rocks: Under a Blood Red Sky video was placed in the network’s rotation in late 1983. I have included the matrix numbers for all pressings as this may be of some use in determining the order of some of the re-releases. All the record labels are shown for both A and B sides as well as both the front and back covers of the sleeves. The labels are scanned at 400dpi and the covers at 200dpi with the 12" covers scanned in parts and photo-merged and reduced in size to around 1600px x 1600px. On the pages that follow, the early era items were photographed directly (these will be replaced by scans) whereas the items from the Joshua Tree era onwards I have scanned using a flatbed scanner. I will follow Verse 1 I was on the outside When you said, you said you needed me And I was looking at myself I was blind, I could not see A boy tries hard to be a man His mother takes him by his. For information on U2's cassette catalogue I recommend by Gerd Küng. I Will Follow (Live) Lyrics: I was on the outside when you said / You needed me / I was looking at myself / I was blind, I could not see / A boy tries hard. For a complete record of the songs and mixes included on the various releases to date I would recommend by Aaron Sams et al. I have not included information such as the track listings and mixes although this can be discerned in many cases from the scans. For a more complete record of the U2 catalogue I would recommend Patrice Bruhat's. The collection includes the very earliest releases from 1979 up to about 2006. Although I also have some CDs and cassettes in my collection, I have not included them here as vinyl was my main focus when I was collecting in the 1980s, 1990s & 2000s. I will follow If you walkaway, walkaway I walkaway, walkaway.
Some time in the future it will also contain all of my Live LP collection. U2 I Will Follow Addeddate: 03:08:44 Closed captioning: no Identifier: U2IWillFollow Scanner: Internet Archive Python library. I was on the outside when you said You said you needed me I was looking at myself I was blind, I could not see A boy tries hard to be a man His mother takes him by his hand If he stops to think he starts to cry Oh why If you walkaway, walkaway I walkaway, walkaway. It is not a discography as, being just one collection, it is missing many items, but it does contain most of the common items from around the world and a few of the rarer ones! It documents all of my 7", 10" and 12" singles and LPs, although some scans of the inner sleeves are still missing at the moment. The album was eventually certified platinum for sales of more than a million copies.This website is a photographic and documentary record of my U2 vinyl collection. The lyrics to "I Will Follow" focus on a young man coming of age and were partly inspired by the experiences of frontman Bono after his mother died when he was 14.Īlthough it took more than a year in each case, Boy reached Number 63 on the Billboard 200 and Number 52 in the U.K. For Boy, however, the quartet enlisted local producer Steve Lillywhite, who became the band's chief collaborator during the early stages of their career.įor "I Will Follow," Lillywhite and U2 retained the spartan arrangement the band had already worked up, with the addition of glockenspiel to sweeten the song's flavor. U2 had already released an independent record in Ireland, featuring two songs recorded with British producer Martin Hannett. and the U.K., though it didn't chart in either country. "I Will Follow" was the first track on U2's debut album and was Boy's first single in both the U.S. They first chose the name Feedback, then the Hype, before settling on the name of the famous American spy plane that crashed in the former Soviet Union.
U2 formed in 1976 in North Dublin, Ireland. Recorded: Summer 1980 at Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin, Irelandīono - vocalsv The Edge - guitar, piano, vocals