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rockstars either die young or they live long enough to constantly wear sunglasses and throw up peace signs

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Do you like this song? #756

Yes I like it, I already know it

Yes I like it, first time listening

No I don't like it, I already know it

No I don't like it, first time listening

Voting ended onMar 6

U2 - Elevation (Tomb Raider Mix) 2001

"Elevation" is a song by Irish rockband U2 from their tenth studio album, All That You Can't Leave Behind (2000). It was released as the album's third single on 25 June 2001. The song became the band's 16th number-one single in their native Ireland. It also topped the charts in Canada and the Netherlands, and reached the top 10 in Australia, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Norway, Scotland, Spain, and the UK. A different mix of the song, entitled the "Tomb Raider Mix", was included on the soundtrack of the 2001 film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. In 2002, "Elevation" won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal at the 44th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony.

"Elevation" was inspired by a sound that guitarist the Edge achieved from a vintage effects unit when playing his Gibson SG guitar through a Fender Bassman amplifier. He likened the pedal to "some mad funkadelic thing". Within ten minutes, the Edge developed the riff that inspired the rest of the song. He then programmed a rhythm on a drum machine to which the band started playing and lead singer Bono improvised vocals. For the heavily distorted sound of the song's main guitar riff, the Edge played his instrument through a 1970s Hiwatt amplifier. The wah-wah guitar effect at the end of the song was achieved by filtering the tone through an Electrix Filter Factory sound module. The version of the song released as a single was entitled the "Tomb Raider Mix", differing significantly from the album version, in that it features guitars with a more "hard rock" sound than the electronic-inspired feel of the album version. The drums in the single version are also harder, with additional tambourine included.

The music video for "Elevation" was directed by Joseph Kahn, with the Edge inserted into footage from the 2001 film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider to partner up with Lara (Angelina Jolie). The video was featured on the film's DVD as a special feature.

"Elevation" received a total of 73,5% yes votes! Previous U2 polls: #444 "Do They Know It's Christmas?", #531 "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me", writers of #195 "GoldenEye".

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Classic Bono.

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"Wildpeace" is the poem U2 included on their brand new (!!!) surprise EP. Read about Yehuda Amichai here. Yes, there are poets and all kinds of regular people in Israel.

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U2, I Will Follow, The Old Grey Whistle Test, 1981

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Musicians who overlapped in unexpected ways

Igor Stravinsky, who died on 6th April 1971, outlived Jimi Hendrix, who died on 18th September 1970.

The Velvet Underground & Nico was released in 1967, the same year as Louis Armstrong's What A Wonderful World.

Ronnie James Dio began releasing music before the Beatles did. His band Ronnie & The Red Caps released a 7" single in 1958. The Beatles’ first commercial single Love Me Do charted in 1962.

In his last interview in December 1980, John Lennon said he admired The B-52s song Rock Lobster and that it helped inspire him to start recording again after a five-year break.

George Harrison’s last interview was a Yahoo! Webchat Q&A on 15th February 2001, in which he made fun of Eminem (“What’s Eminem? Aren’t they chocolates or something?”)

There was an almost six-month period (between 17th October 1972 and 8th April 1973) during which both Pablo Picasso and Eminem were alive.

There was an almost seven-month period (20th February to 12th September 2003) during which both Johnny Cash and Olivia Rodrigo were alive.

Jazz pianist Eubie Blake was likely born in 1887, the son of parents who were born into slavery, and appeared on Saturday Night Live on 10th March 1979, making him the oldest ever SNL musical guest at 92. He would have been in his 30s during WWI, making him almost too old for the draft.

Fred Astaire personally praised Michael Jackson’s Motown 25 performance (the moonwalk). Michael Jackson later described Astaire’s letter as one of the greatest compliments he’d ever received.

Miles Davis was a big fan of U2 and The Beastie Boys. On his deathbed, he reportedly played U2’s The Unforgettable Fire and The Beastie Boys’ Pauls Boutique.

Frank Sinatra’s New York New York was first released in 1979, the same year The Beastie Boys first formed.

Frank Sinatra died 14th May 1998, the same night Seinfeld’s finale aired. Local officials later said the ambulance response was unusually quick and attributed part of that to empty streets because many people were home watching the finale.

You Got It by Roy Orbison, his final top 10 hit, was released in 1989, the same year as Nirvana’s Bleach.

Russian composer Dimitri Shostakovich was still writing classical music in 1975, when The Bee Gees were making disco albums.

Country music legend Gram Parsons (1946-1973) and punk singer-songwriter Jonathan Richman (b. 1951) were acquaintances and played together on occasion. “Gram played guitar for me sometimes," said Richman. "If he’d lived, he mighta sang on a record or two with me". On the day before Parsons' death, he and Richman had played miniature golf and discussed recording together.

Vera Lynn (1917-2020) lived long enough to duet with Wicked star Cynthia Erivo in 2017. The 1979 Pink Floyd song Vera used her as a reference to an era that had become a distant memory. But Lynn lived for another four decades after the song was released, outliving both Syd Barrett and Richard Wright, Pink Floyd members who would have heard her songs as children. Johnny Cash, who was 15 years younger than Vera Lynn, recorded a version of her signature tune We'll Meet Again shortly before his death. Lynn would outlive Cash by another 17 years.