MY FIRST REAL U2 ALBUM was 2000’s All That You Can’t Leave Behind.  Years after my brother tortured me with his music (often with Rattle and Hum in his truck), I found a respect for the band and bought some albums but hadn’t the chance to buy one on its release.

And then came ATYCLB.  I still remember driving home from a Halloween party with a local radio station playing through the album for the first time: amazing.  The song that will be played forever, of course, is “Beautiful Day.”  (I’m sure it will get played again during the summer Olympics, really.)  But the song that always stood out to me, moved me in a deep way, was the song “Walk On.”  The verses, the chorus, the part at the end.  And then I found out its political bent: dedicated to Aung San Suu Kyi, a major proponent for democracy in Myanmar who had been under house arrest for years and had been unable to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for her work.

Fast-forward to this week.  Just yesterday Bono was able to meet the subject of his song as she was able to receive her award and tour Europe.  Turns out that the song was written from the perspective of her husband, which I hadn’t quite realized.  You can read more about it from the NY Daily News here.

And you can check out a live version of “Walk On” below.  Watch it to the end, when they break in a wonderful and ancient chorus (which was also captured in the version of the song on the ep 7.