The music for "Where the Streets Have No Name" originated from a demo that guitarist The Edge composed the night before the group resumed The Joshua Tree sessions. Which eventually led to the hit song you're sure to have heard since its 1987 release. After their wedding, instead of a traditional honeymoon, Bono and his wife went to Africa for volunteer work in an Ethiopian refugee camp. Palmdale and Lancaster CA are the two primary city's in this area. You can almost tell what the people are earning by the name of the street they live on and what side ot that street they live on. Kathy Murphy kathy11885hotmail.com (23:rd of March 2001), 'Where the Streets Have No Name is more like the U2 of old than any of the other songs on the LP, because it's a sketch - I was just trying to sketch a location, maybe a spiritual location, maybe a romantic location. Concern was founded almost 50 years ago by friends getting together to help those suffering famine in Biafra in 1968, and in 2017 Concern workers were still on the front line fighting the famine in South Sudan. You have the power to help give the starving men, women, and children around the world a second chance at a happy, hunger-free life. Use that power and help Concern continue saving lives for years to come. Q.E.D. I want to hide, I want to run in the beginning probably is about the frustration he must've felt, but can also reflect the wishes of the refugees. It is ALWAYS so windy that you would feel that "We're beaten and blown by the wind, Trampled in dust." To begin, the title of the album in which the song is found is titled "Joshua Tree." I was trying to sketch a feeling. This God forsaken place is extremely windy and dusty and you can see a "dust cloud disappear without a trace." Jonas Steverud (Maintainer of U2MoL) (contributed at an unknown date). 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Their programs are far from these cities however, with over 4,000 humanitarian staff scattered across 26 of the world's poorest nations, staying after the cameras leave to help those in desperate need. In the Mojave Desert there is a valley named Antelope Valley. The city's a flood, and our love turns to rust. So, the song is about how when he went to Ethiopia with Ali, he realized just how much we judge people before we even know them. The streets have no name." We're beaten and blown by the wind Trampled in dust. A vote for Kanye is a vote for the spoiler effect. Bono and Bob Geldof visited Ethiopia in the 1980's, seeing those in desperate need, dying of starvation and various causes, yet over 30 years later, people across Africa are still battling starvation and are still dying from lack of basic necessities like clean water, food, and health facilities. We're still building and burning down love Burning down love. David Edwards builditmanmsn.com (14th of November 2005). There are very few named streets out there, just number x alphabetical intersections. "Streets with no name" many have already said represent the class-less gold paved streets of heaven. Can a Secret Trump, COVID-19 Documentary Sway the Election? Famine has subsided for the moment, but thousands are still dying of starvation and are in desperate need of our help. The refugees lived in an big "cities" of tents, a dusty place where the streets had no names. On one particular trip with Bob Geldof, walking through the streets in Ethiopia, Bono stopped, astounded by the poverty and lack of infrastructure and said; "How does anything happen here? Oh, and as to the names, or rather the lack of names of the streets, when the streets were originally laid out the streets that run east and west are named "A Street," "B Street," "C Street," and so on. Prior to the release of this album, the band was spending a lot of time in Los Angeles, and in Las Vegas. The iconic song is still popular today having racked up over 22 million plays on the comparatively new song-streaming service Spotify, while both Concern and Bono continue their charitable endeavors around the world. eval(ez_write_tag([[728,90],'popdust_com-medrectangle-3','ezslot_4',630,'0','0'])); Concern is credited with first taking Bono to Africa and sparking a lifetime of humanitarianism. Bono (from Propaganda 5, 1987): "Where the Streets Have No Name is more like the U2 of old than any of the other songs on the LP, because it's a sketch - I was just trying to sketch a location, maybe a spiritual location, maybe a romantic location.I was trying to sketch a feeling. And when I go there I go there with you (It's all I can do). They've been flattened etc. So again "We're still building," fits perfectly. Bono was the only other performer from Live Aid, apart from Bob Geldof, to actually go there, and see the devastation for himself. 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