U2 in Rattle and Hum (with Joe Millar)

It's a story we keep running into here on Pop Screen: a band are so big,
so acclaimed, that they think "We could make a film, how could that go
wrong?" and the universe then demonstrates exactly how that could go
wrong. Coming just one year after their worldwide smash The Joshua Tree,

U2 decided to make Rattle & Hum, a documentary about their American
tour. It earned them their first negative reviews, and caused people to
reflect - for the first time, if you can believe it - that Bono was
quite annoying sometimes.
And yet... you might like it all the same. Joining Graham this week, Joe
from Dreaming Machine talks about his complex relationship with U2
after a mammoth revisiting of all their albums. They discuss the
failures and the less-heralded triumphs of Rattle & Hum, also
finding space to wonder about the Manic Street Preachers' album reissues and tell a delightful anecdote about Joe's old alarm clock.

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