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U2: The Joshua Tree (Island 90581-1)

Gene Santoro, Downbeat, August 1987

YOU CAN'T say they don't tell you what they feel. And in fact, what they've been feeling over the last couple of years has become more urgent as the worldwide tolls from death and destruction, oppression and war and famine and economic imperialism mount grimly, relentlessly, and, for those with the right stuff, profitably.

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