a recent Rolling Stone interview<\/a>, Bono hailed \u201cThe Greatest Show on Earth\u201d as his favorite song on the new album. \u201cIt\u2019s maybe our greatest song in a very long time,\u201d Bono said. \u201cThat was a reason to stay in the band.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tThe song was paired with a video directed by longtime collaborator Anton Corbijn, who shot the visual in the California desert. The video, which stars the band in \u201ca religious cult where women do all the heavy lifting,\u201d plays up on the themes of Bono\u2019s lyrics.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cIf this is love, we make cathedrals of our hurt \/ People digging their dreams out of the dirt,\u201d he sings. \u201cWe were once the greatest show on earth.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThe track shares its name with U2\u2019s just-announced The Greatest Show On Earth World Tour, which kicks off February 2027 in Mexico City followed by dates in Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires; North American and European dates are forthcoming.<\/p>\n
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\n\t\u201c\u2018The Greatest Show on Earth\u2019? Now that\u2019s a throwdown. It\u2019s a dare, to ourselves as much as anyone, to try and have the best night of anybody\u2019s life,\u201d the band said of the track and the tour in a statement. \u201cA bit of showman, a bit of shaman, a riot of color, unreasonable guitar, bass and drums, and tunes you can hold onto. Because if people are gonna show up, we certainly are.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThe Greatest Show on Earth\u201d follows previous singles \u201cSilencio<\/a>\u201d and \u201cStreet of Dreams\u201d from Carnaval de Luz, due out November 13.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s an extraordinary collection of songs,\u201d bassist Adam Clayton told Rolling Stone, \u201cand it\u2019s the culmination of the work that everyone has been doing for 50 years.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Band\u2019s tour in support of Carnaval de Luz, named after Bono\u2019s favorite song on the LP, begins February…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409,37732,17820],"class_list":["post-647503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music","tag-tour-announcement","tag-u2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}