U2 at the BBC

-Adam, please.

-Hi!

OK, we'll see you later, all right? It's live radio, so we've got to go in. Bye-bye.

MUSIC: "Get On Your Boots" by U2

# Let me in the sound, sound Let me in the sound

# Get on your boots

# Get on your boots

# Get on your boots

# Get on your boots. #

We're at the BBC Radio Theatre. It's U2 Day on the BBC and they're in the Live Lounge.

So, how did you prepare for this day?

-Surely you were working until, what, 2am?

-We were working very late, sweating over a hot Stratocaster.

Do you get nervous doing these things?

A bit. There's always gonna be a few butterflies.

-But it's nice to get out there and do the thing that you do. It settles down.

-OK.

APPLAUSE

THEY LAUGH

The smallest audience they will have played to in a very long time.

Here, for Radio One, please welcome U2!

AUDIENCE SCREAMS

# The heart is a bloom

# It shoots up from the stony ground

# There's no room

# No space to rent in this town

# You're out of luck

# And the reason that you had to care

# The traffic is stuck

# You're not moving anywhere

# You thought you'd found a friend

# To take you out of this place

# Someone you could lend a hand

# In return for grace

# It's a beautiful day

# The sky falls, you feel like

# It's a beautiful day

# You're on the road

# But you've got no destination

# You're in the mud

# In the maze of her imagination

# You love this town

# Even if that doesn't ring true

# You've been all over

# And it's been all over you

# It's a beautiful day

# Don't let it get away

# It's a beautiful day

# Touch me

# Take me to that other place

# Teach me

# I know I'm not a hopeless case, oh

# See the world in green and blue

# See China right in front of you

# See the canyons broken by cloud

# See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out

# See the Bedouin fires at night

# See the oil fields at first light and

# See the bird with a leaf in her mouth

# After the flood all the colours came out

# It was a beautiful day

# Don't let it get away

# Beautiful day

# Touch me

# Take me to that other place

# Teach me

# I know I'm not a hopeless case

# What you don't have you don't need it now

# What you don't know you can feel it somehow

# What you don't know you don't need it now

# Don't need it now

# Beautiful day

# Oh, oh, oh

# Beautiful day

# Blackbird singing in the dead of night

# Take these swollen eyes and learn to see

# All your life

# You had just been waiting for this moment to arrive

# Blackbird fly. #

CROWD CHEERS

Breathe.

# 16th of June, nine-o-five, doorbell rings

# Man at the door says if I want to stay alive a bit longer

# There's a few things I need you to know

# Three coming from a long line of travelling sales people on my mother's side

# I wasn't gonna buy just anyone's cockatoo

# So, why would I invite a complete stranger into my home?

# Would you?

# These days are better than that

# These days are better than that

# Every day I die again and again I'm reborn

# Every day I have to find the courage

# To walk out into the street

# With arms out

# To the people we meet

# Neither down or out... #

Hey! # There's nothing you have that I need

# I can breathe

# Breathe now

# 16th of June, Chinese stocks are going up

# And I'm coming down with some new Asian virus

# Ju Ju man, Ju Ju man

# Doc says you're fine or dying! Please

# Nine-o-nine, St John Divine on the line

# My pulse is fine

# But I'm running down the road like loose electricity

# While the band in my head plays a striptease

# The roar that lies on the other side of silence

# The forest fire that is fear, so deny it

# Walk out into the street

# With your arms out

# Not knowing defeat

# Neither down or out

# There's nothing you have that I need

# I can breathe

# Breathe now... #

Stay with us, now.

BONO HUMS

# We are people borne of sound

# The songs are in our eyes

# Gonna wear them like a crown

# Walk, walk, walk out into a sunburst street

# Sing your heart, sing your heart on Regent Street,

# I've got grace inside a sound

# I found grace, it's all that I found

# Oh, I can breathe

# Breathe, breathe now. #

Still breathing...

# Breathe. #

AUDIENCE CHEERS

That was amazing!

That's The Edge's guitar pick.

It was fantastic!

Wooo!

Did Bono see your flag?

We weren't allowed to put it up.

It'll be up for when they play on the roof later on.

Yes, good afternoon, friends, and thanks so much for tuning in.

Welcome to All Requestion Friday and U2 are here with us in the Studio Special.

Between now and six, they choose the music whilst you pose the questions.

Will it be ABBA for Bono or is he more of a Mavericks man?

Will The Edge go out on a limb to bring us some '70s glam or is he more of an '80s cheese boy?

And what will Larry and Adam want the mighty All Request Friday jukebox to play?

It's All Requestion Friday with U2 and you, too all here.

On the radio, now on live, so let's get out of the box.

THEY CHATTER

'Mind the doors. Doors closing. Doors opening. Lift going up.

'Mind the doors. Doors closing. Lift going up.'

Adam's back on the cheeseburgers.

So, normally All Request Friday, it's All Requestion Friday

with U2 live in the studio. This is BBC Radio 2.

It's ten past five, now.

You said that the band had about 60 songs to choose from for this album.

Why didn't you do a double-album?

That's from, um, Textfields.

We kinda felt that rather than just do the one album that maybe we would do the two.

We just weren't gonna do them at the same time. So, we may well release another album next year.

You may well or you will?

That's a big announcement just happened on the Chris Evans show.

-A scoop already, that's all right.

-I said it may well.

-All right, here we go...

-Sal's here now, hello Sal.

-Hello. I have to say, I'm a little bit overwhelmed.

-I'm not surprised!

I've never seen so... Oh, my... Whose hands are those?

Whose do they feel like? Are they short and stubby?

-They're very silky.

-No, it's not Larry, it's Bono.

-THEY LAUGH

-It's Elton John.

In North Lanarkshire, there's a diesel spillage causing delays...

Uh, it's never seemed so attractive, I don't know why.

The A73 from Chapelhall to Airdrie is badly affected.

If you're on that stretch or off the...on the A89 towards Calder,

there are some bits where there's oil and so...it....

might be difficult...for you... if you're driving. Uh, the M6 Southbound...oh, my goodness...

All right, now it's nearly six o'clock. For us, something's gonna happen in the next hour.

Who knows what it could be? You could have something up your sleeve, you might have nothing planned.

You've got to deliver us something pretty special. Could you do that?

-I think we could probably try.

-You could have a little rest for a while, maybe? Get ready for it?

-Anyone's doing any shopping on Regent Street, that might be fun.

-Oh, for heaven's sake!

You got it, all right. That's good news.

So, they've chosen the tunes...

Bono! Bono! Bono! Bono!

Go round to Regent Street. Regent Street. Go now!

What's the store?

I've just been told U2 are performing on the roof.

CROWD CHEER

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls,

live on a Friday night from the roof of the BBC's Broadcasting House in London, Great Britain,

-U2!

-CROWD SCREAMS

Onto the roof of Broadcasting House. I'll ask them to say hello

to their public. Gentlemen, your public are down here!

Filling Regent Street with a throng of support and fan-dom!

Thank you, London, thank you, the BBC.

What an honour to be on this balcony.

Get On Your Boots!

CHEERING

MUSIC: "Get On Your Boots" by U2

# Future needs a big kiss

# Winds blow with a twist

# Never seen a moon like this can you see it too

# Night is falling everywhere

# Rockets hit the funfair

# Satan loves a bomb scare

# But it won't scare you

# Hey! Sexy boots

# Get on your boots, yeah

# Free me from the dark dream

# Candyfloss, ice cream

# All the kids are screaming but the ghosts aren't real

# Here's where we gotta be

# Love and community

# Laughter is eternity if joy is real

# You don't know how beautiful

# You don't know how beautiful you are

# You don't know

# You don't get it, do you

# You don't know how beautiful you are

# That's someone's stuff they're blowing up

# We're into growing up

# Women of the future hold the big revelations

# I've gotta submarine you've got gasoline

# I don't wanna talk about wars between the nations

# Not right now

# Sexy boots no no no

# Get on your boots, yeah

# Not right now

# Foxy boots

# You don't know how beautiful

# You don't know beautiful you are

# You don't know how beautiful you are

# You don't get it, do you you don't know

# You don't know how beautiful you are... #

Regent Street!

Dublin calling!

# Let me in the sound

# Let me in the sound

# Let me in the sound, sound

# Let me in the sound, sound

# Let me see you in town

# Let me in the sound

# Let me in the sound

# Let me in the sound, sound the sound, sound

# Let me in the sound

# Let me in the sound

# Let me in the sound

# Let me in the sound, sound

# Let me in the sound, sound

# Meet me in the sound

# Get on your boots

# Get on your boots

# Yeah, hey hey

# Get on your boots

# Yeah, hey hey

# Get on your boots

# Yeah, hey hey

# Get on your boots

# Yeah, hey hey

# Get on your boots

# Yeah! #

CHEERING

This is a day to remember

and thanks for sticking with us over the years

or if you've just turned up for the first time

get ready, cos we're not going away any time soon.

CHEERING

This is Magnificent.

CHEERING

Up in the air! Peace sign, move it, move it!

# Magnificent

# Magnificent

# Magnificent

# I was born

# I was born to be with you

# In this space and time

# After that and ever after

# I haven't had a clue

# Such foolishness

# Can leave a heart black and blue

# Ooooh, oh-oh

# Only love, only love can

# Leave such a mark

# But only love

# Only love can heal such a scar

# I was born

# I was born to sing for you

# I didn't have a choice but to lift you up

# And sing whatever song you wanted me to

# I give you back my voice

# From the womb

# My first cry, it was a joyful noise

# Oh, oh-oh

# Only love

# Only love can leave such a mark

# But only love

# Only love can heal such a scar

# Justified till we die You and I will magnify

# Magnificent

# Magnificent

# Oooooooh...

# La-la-la-la

# Only love

# Only love can leave such a scar

# But only love

# Only love heals such a scar

# Justified till we die, you and I will magnify

# Magnificent

# Magnificent

# Magnificent

# Magnificent. #

CHEERING

Beautiful, truly! Truly, truly, truly, truly.

I'm afraid of heights, actually,

so why would you write a song called Vertigo?

CHEERING

Uno, dos, tres, catorce...

# Lights go down it's dark

# The jungle is your head can't rule your heart

# A feeling is so much stronger than a thought

# Your eyes are wide and though you're whole you can't be bought

# Your mind can wander

# Hello, hello... Hola! I'm at a place called Vertigo

# It's everything I wish I didn't know

# Except you give me something

# I can feel

# Feel

# The night is full of holes

# As bullets rip the sky

# Of ink with gold

# They sparkle as the boys play rock and roll

# They know that they can't dance

# At least they know

# I can't stand the beat

# I'm asking for the cheque

# The girl with crimson nails

# Jesus round her neck

# Swinging to the music

# Swinging to the music

# Oh, oh, oh, oh

# Oh, oh, oh, oh

# Oh, oh, oh, oh

# Hello, hello

# Hola!

# We're at a place called Vertigo

# Lights go down and all I know

# Is that you

# Give me something

# I can feel

# Feel... #

Yeah, yeah!

We want you to do...

All of this...

All of this can be yours.

All of this, all of this can be yours.

All of this, all of this can be yours.

Just give me what I want.

And no-one gets hurt.

# Hello, hello

# Hola!

# We're at a place called Vertigo

# Lights go down and all I know

# Is that you

# Give me something

# I can feel love

# Teaching me how

# Ah, ah, ah, ah

# Your love is teaching me how

# Ah, ah, ah, ah

# I feel

# Feel

# Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

# Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

# Yeah. # CHEERING

# She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah. #

BBC, dig it!

Dig it!

CHEERING