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The realization they came to was that they’d given this song their best shot. And since they still had an album to make, everyone agreed it was time to move on.

“We must have played it a thousand times, and no matter how shite a show, how off form the band or, more likely, the singer, to this day when we play ‘Streets,’ it’s as if God walks through the room.”

Bono admitted that his attempt to inject a something visually memorable into U2’s performance at Live Aid did go awry.  As he put it, “I’d gone AWOL to try and find a television moment and forgot about the song.”

U2 have a new release on the way, a compilation album of songs that have been “reimagined and re-recorded.”