Silver and Gold (song)
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| "Silver and Gold" | ||
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| Song by U2 | ||
| from the album Rattle and Hum | ||
| Released | October 10, 1988 | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Length | 5:49 | |
| Label | Island | |
| Writer(s) | Bono | |
| Producer(s) | Jimmy Iovine | |
| Rattle and Hum track listing | ||
| "Freedom for My People" (7) |
"Silver and Gold" (8) |
"Pride (In the Name of Love)" (live) (9) |
"Silver and Gold" is the eighth track from U2's 1988 album, Rattle and Hum, recorded as a live version. It was previously released by U2 in 1987 on the "Where the Streets Have No Name" single as a B-side and performed on that year's Joshua Tree Tour.
It is one of the few songs written solely by Bono, and was originally written for the Artists United Against Apartheid project, which featured songs in protest of the South African apartheid policy. In that very first incarnation it appeared on that project's Sun City album in December 1985, recorded by Bono and Keith Richards and Ron Wood of The Rolling Stones.
The version on Rattle and Hum is the most widely known, and it shows the influence of several other U2 songs — the central riff is very similar to that from "When Love Comes to Town," one guitar solo sounds like the solo from the Rattle and Hum version of "Bullet the Blue Sky," and the second guitar solo sounds similar to the one from "In God's Country."
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