Songs likeU2s Sunday Bloody Sunday and One.
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It was ready made for trouble, says former Pres.
Bill Clinton in a fresh interview, describing the volatile situation in the Balkans.
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It was a very bright shining light, Sarajevo, Amanpour observes, and they needed to kill that.
Thats what kept us sane all the time.
That tells you how much music matters.
U2 wins the Europe Music Award trophy for Best Group, on November 23, 1995 in Paris. L-R guitarist The Edge, lead singer, guitarist Bono, bassist Adam Clayton and drummer Larry Mullen Junior.Bertrand Guay/AFP via Getty Images
Enes recalls feistily, Our punk rock was our weapon to tell them, Fuck you!
MTV, then the most powerful force in popular music, could be seen on TV in Bosnia.
Sarajevans, we learn, revered U2 for their soaring music and outspoken stance on political issues.
I thought they were a force for good, says Bill S. Carter about U2.
He had only intended to stay briefly, but fell in love with the people, he explains.
U2 was then playing its massive Zoo TV tour, in support of the albumAchtung Baby.
And at their next concert, U2 dedicated a performance of One to the city.
We thought the whole world had left us behind, one Sarajevan remembers of the hope U2 stirred.
[It was] incredible somebody cared.
Milosevic was getting away with bloody murder.
After that public rebuke, U2 dropped the live from Sarajevo interludes from the tour dates.
They werent done with Sarajevo, however.
Luciano Pavarotti sang an operatic section of the tune.
The documentary builds to U2s triumphant arrival in Sarajevo after the breaking of the siege.
He shouts, Fuck the past!
