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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)