One Tree Hill (song)
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| Single by U2 from the album The Joshua Tree |
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| Released | March 1988 | ||||
| Format | 7" vinyl, cassette | ||||
| Recorded | Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin, Ireland 1986 | ||||
| Genre | Rock | ||||
| Length | 5:23 | ||||
| Label | Island | ||||
| Producer | Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois | ||||
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"One Tree Hill" is the ninth track and final single from U2's 1987 album, The Joshua Tree. The single was released exclusively in New Zealand in 1988 where it went to number one. The title of the song refers to One Tree Hill, a volcanic peak in Auckland, New Zealand. At the time of the song's release, a single Monterey pine tree stood on the hill. The tree was removed in 2000, 6 years after being chainsawed by a Māori activist. The song was written in memory of Bono's personal assistant and close friend, Greg Carroll, a native of New Zealand, who died in a 1986 motorcycle crash in Dublin: he was delivering Bono's motorcycle and the accident was in rain. The lyrics also reference Chilean folk singer Victor Jara.
The song debuted live on 10 September 1987 and was played frequently at the start and finish of the Joshua Tree Tour's third leg (though with a two month absence in the middle) and throughout the Lovetown Tour, with its last performance in Rotterdam on 9 January 1990. It was not played again until 2006, when it was played twice in Auckland during two Vertigo Tour shows and twice at two of the following shows in Tokyo. It has been performed a total of forty times.[1] The two 2006 Auckland performances notably occurred within sight of the song's namesake, One Tree Hill.
The B-sides and cover art are identical to the North America-only single release of "In God's Country". The original CD pressings of The Joshua Tree incorrectly indexed the ending of "One Tree Hill" at 4:43 and the beginning of "Exit" at 4:53, although the track times were correctly noted on the back of the album. This error has been corrected on later editions.
One Tree Hill was included as a bonus track on the Japan release of U2's first compilation album, The Best of 1980-1990.
[edit] Track listings
- "One Tree Hill" (5:23)
- "Bullet the Blue Sky" (4:32)
- "Running to Stand Still" (4:20)
[edit] References
- ^ U2-Vertigo-Tour.com, All performances of One Tree Hill, accessed 9 April 2007.
