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00:00 ♪ Make a flame ♪

00:02 ♪ She's there to make a flame ♪

00:06 - I think the original concept

00:06 was where two civilizations meet.

00:08 Like, the Two Americas was a working title

00:11 that we had at the time.

00:13 And the idea of the desert where desert meets civilization

00:16 was a sort of a theme that we went out.

00:18 But that stage we had no idea of a title or anything else.

00:20 And Anton went out and recced the locations

00:22 and sort of came together with a lot of places

00:26 that we could go and shoot.

00:27 ♪ And the sun's up, baby ♪

00:30 ♪ Burn, burn the fire of love ♪

00:33 ♪ Burn, burn the fire of love ♪

00:38 ♪ Love ♪

00:43 ♪ Love ♪

00:45 - They flew into LA and we made a sort of schedule

00:50 to shoot for three days, I believe.

00:52 And it was during the night after the first day's shooting

00:56 that I went out one night with Bono in Little Cuff

00:59 and I said, you know, there's a tree here

01:01 which I really love, it's called the Joshua Tree.

01:03 And it would be a brilliant idea to have that on the front

01:06 and then the band would be on the back,

01:08 like a continuation of a shot.

01:10 - He was very keen to take us to Joshua Tree Park.

01:14 And he's Dutch and he can't say Joshua.

01:18 He would say Yoshua.

01:20 So we really got off on getting him to say

01:23 Yoshua Tree Park.

01:25 - 'Cause Bono then came down that morning

01:28 after that night and he came down with the Bible

01:31 and went like, the Yoshua Tree, you know.

01:32 And he looked it up in the Bible

01:34 and it meant a lot to him.

01:36 And he thought it should be probably a title for an album.

01:39 And then we went out that day to actually look for the tree.

01:43 And amazingly enough, we found this beautiful tree,

01:47 which we actually don't tell anybody where it is,

01:49 standing on its own, 'cause this tree

01:51 normally grows in big groups.

01:53 And it's incredible to find a tree on its own.

01:56 So it's actually, I've never seen another tree

01:58 on its own since.

02:00 - We were in Chile a few months ago

02:02 and General Pinochet, who was responsible for the murder

02:07 and brutal torture of thousands of his citizens,

02:12 was being voted into the Senate.

02:15 And so we had a protest at the concert

02:18 where we brought the mothers of the disappeared

02:20 from Chile on stage.

02:22 They arrived with pictures of their loved ones

02:24 that had been cut down and taken from them,

02:28 as the song says.

02:29 (gentle music)

02:31 (woman vocalizing)

02:35 (woman vocalizing)

02:38 (woman vocalizing)

02:41 (woman vocalizing)

02:45 (woman vocalizing)

02:48 (upbeat music)

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