U2 - I Will Follow - The Unforgettable Fire Tour, Croke Park, Dublin (1985)

[@damomeade]

I was right in the middle of that ecstatic steaming mess of a crowd, just a sea of bodies that surged and back and forth to this music that meant everything. Don’t think my feet touched the ground for much of I Will Follow. I was 16 and this was my fist U2 gig, but this band had changed my world since Boy came out when I was 11. They were from my hometown, and they were finally home. This day was a spectacular joy.

[@RoyBattyLives]

I was there with you Damo, what an event

[@Rowena-lg8be]

I was there too

[@sabiantheomnivore5592]

@@Rowena-lg8be Did you meet any asian women who were upset about security??

[@dublinjazz1]

I was at that gig with my sister. I worked right next to Croke Park and we had a bird's eye view of the rehearsals that took place in the days beforehand. REM was the supporting act. Looking back at the greatness we witnessed almost 40 years later, it still takes my breath away. I saw U2 with my husband in Madison Square Garden in 2015, and it was truly magical. Man, can they put on a show!

[@jcalli66]

I was there too - REM was the 2nd opening act (after some local Dublin band) and REM was followed by the Alarm, the n Squeeze, then of course U2. I will follow was not the opener either - it was ‘11 O’clock Tick Tock’ - was an amazing day

[@gloriadelvalle5152]

Todavía disfruto de mi banda favorita .hoy tengo 72años. Y me gustan mucho.❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@cornel-lazar]

This is just 100% energy. This will never ever exist again. And crowd goes absolutely nuts. Incredible.

[@joenagle2595]

Amazing how 4 men from this tiny Island totally conquered the fucking world and are 1 of.. if not THE best live performing band of all time still...just chills 👑🇮🇪

[@CUSTARDMIKE]

Ones English and one is welsh but yeah up to 87 they were untouchable

[@sabiantheomnivore5592]

Who are you calling tiny?

[@keith6591]

I was 12 when I went to this concert with my friend Graham Hughes from donaghmede. Didn't have tickets, we got through a gap in the fence. What a day. Bunked the train home afterwards as we didn't have a penny in our pockets the whole day

[@eddunne4190]

Brilliant

[@gollgaming513]

I was 16, you were lucky neighbors, just down the road, Coolock here, and we could here the music from there so we still could listen and here , and play around :D

[@donny2327]

Three weeks later they played Live Aid, and that was that.

[@Paul-TrophySE]

This was my second gig after the War tour (Belfast Maysfield Leisure centre gig). It was mind-blowing. Electric. You could feel the raw emotion in the air, just look at that crowd. In the days before health and safety ruined the atmosphere at stadium gigs. Packed in, sweaty happy bodies singing as one. It was immense. We will never forget that morning, sitting outside Croke Park on Jones Road listening to the early morning soundchecks when the gates opened and a small open top car came out with the fab 4 in it. They waved at us and said hello. Nearly fell in the canal! :-)

[@edmundcoyle364]

i was at this too, brilliant.

[@RoyBattyLives]

Can’t believe I was there, it was the first ever gig I went to. It blew my young 15yr old mind

[@sabiantheomnivore5592]

Bollocks... I was 16..

[@johnc3403]

..This was my first concert ever, i was blown away. And look at that line up.. In Tua Nua, REM, The Alarm and Squeeze as support acts ffs!!

[@eddunne4190]

Me 2.they are blowing me away to this day.the fxxking greatest ever.& 35yrs later u2 are still playing croke park

[@stephent9677]

Squeeze a better band.

[@johnc3403]

@@stephent9677 Well, Squeeze were an excellent support band for sure, and I love their songs. Every song they played, we knew and sang along with. They are a great band who left a great legacy... but there's no doubt who the stars of the show were that night.

[@tedfreeman2709]

@@johnc3403 I think it's about anthemic staggering melodies for me with U2. Squeeze is ...nice! Always loved the guys and though they didn't turn out to be the "next Beatles" of songwriting, sure they are appreciated. But U2 - transcendent with this song, Electric Co, Wild Horses, Beautiful Day, God's Country, Gloria, even the more quiet songs pulse with another wild creative energy than almost any peers, certainly nothing close to the familiar lovable pub rock of a Squeeze, Rockpile, Tom Petty. None bad, but U2 vastly different level, different realm. I'd give an REM an approach to that "other realm" than normal bands too... loved the Alarm back in the day but they were also ran to U2 though beloved.

[@paprussell]

Back when Adam was excited to be there. This is the first concert I ever went to, I was 14. It blew my mind.

[@light106year6]

Paul Russell back when people weren’t twats thinking they know everything on the internet how do you know that he still not excited to be there ?

[@hotlov72]

Yeah! They cranked Adams bass up no wonder her was thrilled

[@cmc6112]

And the last the edge wasn’t wearing a skullcap…oh my days

[@soulkiss1001]

@@cmc6112 edge didnt wear a cullcap until after rattle and hum or starting with zoo tv tour in 92

[@tedfreeman2709]

He (Clayton) really has kinda checked out hasn't he. He and Mike Mills always impressed me with unexpected bass harmony notes...Hmmm. I am most struck however by Edge no hat / Gibson Explorer. I didn't remember ever seeing him play Gibson in the early days and damned if I havent seen him play a Les Paul in the IWF first video release also.

[@paddychambers7018]

I remember this like it was yesterday. I only lived a couple of miles from the stadium in Marino and could have listened to it from my garden. If I remember correctly Bono stopped the gig at some stage because a lad had managed to get onto the roof of the Cusack stand. He wouldn't sing again until he got down. I was 15 years old. Great gig.

[@damomeade]

Yeah I remember Bono shouting at him “people are supposed to get high on the music, not on the roof”.

[@sabiantheomnivore5592]

boobs.. asian girl,, see above..

[@philwright8666]

This was U2 at their very best. Incredible. The best live band of all time? I'd say yes.

[@jamescotter833]

What a voice my god amazing times class

[@TurboJimbo]

The Unforgettable Fire !!!

[@clod1972]

Pure energy, pure passion..and The Edge hatless..so very vintage :)

[@GustavoFerrao-b8p]

😮🎉 excelente tema realmente para nostálgicos forever Classic in the world

[@huishaai]

We need this full show in 4K, u2 at their peak, before a home crowd...cmon man !!!

[@sabiantheomnivore5592]

How could you stuff this onto 4k? It was almost 2d when they shot it..

[@MrAndyCarrol]

Best version of i will follow i have ever seen. So powerful and passionate. Was too young to go at the time but could hear some of it while playing pitch and putt at Dublin Airport that evening 😉

[@johnc3403]

It was a magical time to be a Dubliner. I remember a couple of years later, drinking cider on Terenure College playing fields listening to Simple Minds live all the way from Croke Park, such was the muggy thunderous atmosphere, we could hear it all that night :D wonderful times that I dearly miss.

[@timtrek]

@@johnc3403 every gig in the RDS sounded like it was happening in our back garden .. saw U2 there in 93, Prince and Springsteen both in 92.. U2 played two nights the first we all piled onto a ledge on the Johnson Mooney and O'Brien building in Ballsbridge and could see the lights.. different time

[@sabiantheomnivore5592]

I will follow woke up the crowd... They were just a mob before that..

[@philwright8653]

Does it get any better than this? I guess not. By far the greatest live band ever.

[@Music-el7if]

After U2's Phoenix Park gig in '83 where Simple Minds played on the same bill, Simple Minds were voted by the Irish as greatest live band in the world in the end of year polls. U2 came second.

[@frankgollogly3627]

I was at Phoenix Park. Simple Minds were great but not a patch on U2!

[@Music-el7if]

@@frankgollogly3627 The great Irish public did not agree with you.

[@Music-el7if]

@frankgollogly3627 Their Croke Park in '86 gig blew this out of the water too.

[@frankgollogly3627]

@@Music-el7if and that is the beauty of democracy my friend!

[@benmcgranaghon7547]

Just found this, I was there in stands, can't believe it's 32 years ago.. Amazing Day

[@wallacewestmeath]

back in the day when a concert ticket was not the price of a house . we went on the 2 days .. Fantastic.. even when the guy was dancing on the stadium roof and they stopped to tell him to get the hell down. and it also included REM , and Leslie Dowdall and her band In Tua Nua ,, and others

[@kiliantp]

I was at this gig as a 16 year old, really fun to see some of it again. Great memories.

[@giannagarcia4937]

Siempre fueron y serán todo terreno de pasión, talento, carisma y guapura

[@NxDoyle]

When I see footage like this in 2019, I'm finding that it's the same shows I had on bootlegs in 1987.

[@gloriadelvalle5152]

Profetas en su tierra son incomparables .U2 ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@Paul-TrophySE]

This was from the "Sort of Homecoming documentary " made by RTE at the time. Well worth watching if you can see it

[@paddychambers7018]

And no mobile phones stuck up in the air everywhere.

[@bricktop8435]

Incredible footage

[@edmundcoyle364]

3 weeks this came after one useless (yes you read it right) useless Springsteen Slane concert, he went off and had dinner mid-concert. This just brilliant, made up for the disappointment of Slane. Just two weeks after this, I waited and counted down the days to a day, mid-July '85, London, Live Aid. I knew they'd do it.

[@chilledmonkeebrains]

Incredible power they have live

[@parakeet8157]

SO AWESOME😎😍

[@crashj71]

great and great!

[@leatherman9924]

great energy

[@berniechelsea]

My dad was at this concert, wish I was!

[@sabiantheomnivore5592]

Who was yer ma.? I'm only asking..

[@bonoserch]

Last show unforgettable fire tour =D

[@donny2327]

Actually played Belgium the week after I think

[@mikeday3898]

I was in the stands- you could feel the building shaking

[@hugogayozzo9568]

Extraordinario

[@shayclarke]

i was there in 1985....

[@paprussell]

I remember all that sweaty mist.

[@khristianvinales8849]

The energy of the crowd,totally unseen these days ,unless you go to south america

[@petergreen2552]

3_20_ Look at that crowd go!

[@eddunne4190]

I was right up the front under the edge.3mth after my 13th birthday how we survived up there.but how stupid it sounds it was fxxking amazing.cork 87 was much worse.only lasted 2 songs up the front.the ground was way over crowded

[@light106year6]

A sort of homecoming

[@beezee05]

Wow Bono had a set of pipes.

[@manuelvitaleminopoli1153]

Rock n roll

[@tmck2000]

I'm there somewhere on the pitch in a sea of mid eighties bad haircuts... :-)

[@gerryo100]

Me too.....

[@johnc3403]

Me too Kev, but you know, a flat-top was hard to beat back in '85

[@bobbyperu1000]

any more footage of this gig

[@soberek]

We're looking at a band just about to spawn an album that sold 25 million copies and win a Grammy beating Michael Jackson's 'Bad'. Nuff said.

[@pompeyloyall]

Where is the footage from the rest of the concert - only other footage I’ve seen is from the documentary ?

[@shayclarke]

i was there as a 12 year old was so hot we were hosed down to keep us cool....

[@CobaltNight]

Best mullet ever?

[@effdonahue6595]

🎶Mullet the Blue Sky🎶

[@Franckdatank]

He went all out on the first song lol typical young Bono.

[@donny2327]

2nd song. 11 O clock was 1st

[@johnc3403]

@@donny2327 I think you're right Donal and didn't Dave Fanning introduce them?

[@liammcelhinney6451]

I will follow was the first song that evening. Arguably their greatest ever Croke Park performance. They were still hungry!!! 😉

[@lolilolmdrxd]

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