Bad: The Song That Saved My Life airs Monday June 15, 9:35pm on RT\u00c9 One and RT\u00c9 Player<\/p>\n
Bad: The Song That Saved My Life\u00a0is a powerful new feature documentary exploring the remarkable life of Andy \u201cGuck\u201d Rowen, the Dublin man whose struggles with trauma and heroin addiction inspired three U2 songs, including the classic anthem \u2018Bad\u2019.<\/p>\n
Raised in a strict religious household\u00a0and traumatised as an 11-year-old witness to the 1974 Dublin Bombings,\u00a0Andy\u2019s life Later\u00a0spiralled into addiction amid Dublin\u2019s vibrant 1980s punk scene. It was growing up on the North Side of Dublin that he met\u00a0friends and contemporaries including future members of U2 and Virgin Prunes. Andy\u2019s unravelling following a near-fatal overdose inspired the writing of \u2018Bad\u2019, a song which featured on the band\u2019s 1984 album \u201cThe Unforgettable Fire.\u201d<\/p>\n
The documentary explores how Andy was\u00a0unhoused and struggling when he was\u00a0offered one final chance at recovery: a place in a rehab clinic in the United\u00a0States.\u00a0A series of extraordinary encounters, including a revelatory moment with the handwritten lyrics of \u2018Bad\u2019 and an unexpected tribute from Bono before 55,000 fans, help set him on a path toward sobriety\u00a0and\u00a0reconciliation.<\/p>\n
Bad: The Song That Saved My Life\u00a0is a fascinating documentary told candidly by Andy himself; family members including Andy\u2019s brothers and his daughter; the mother of his first two children; as well as Bono. It intertwines painful personal memory with Irish social history to tell an uplifting story of survival, friendship, faith, and second chances.<\/p>\n
Andy said:\u00a0\u201cThe only thing I wanted to be when I was small, was good. Unfortunately, I found I\u00a0couldn\u2019t be.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n
Bono said:\u00a0\u201cHe\u00a0probably had\u00a0the highest IQ of any kid on our street, and sometimes\u00a0it seemed he\u2019d\u00a0memorised the\u00a0Encyclopaedia\u00a0Brittanica. He could remember turning two. He could remember\u00a0a lot of things he\u00a0would\u2019ve\u00a0liked to have forgotten.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bad: The Song That Saved My Life\u00a0airs Monday June 15, 9:35pm on RT\u00c9 One and RT\u00c9 Player.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
ENDS<\/p>\n
Linda Pototzki\u00a0| RT\u00c9 Communications Lead<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bad: The Song That Saved My Life airs Monday June 15, 9:35pm on RT\u00c9 One and RT\u00c9 Player…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-490996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}