Boy (1978-1983)

what they said

"My favorite moment was Edge's guitar solo on Love Is Blindness which closes the album. I remember Edge playing his guitar with hatred, with love, with purpose, with abandonment, with annoyance. All these emotions happening in his personal life he was taken out on his guitar. And suddenly this tune emerged, this conversation came out he was having with a guitar. And I was so jealous that instrumentals can have that eloquent conversation without words. It left me speechless and still does." - Bono on Love Is Blindness, 2021

did you know

The Edge recorded all the songs from the Boy album using his natural finished Gibson Explorer. He drew inspiration from music he was listening to at the time, including Television and Siouxsie and the Banshees.

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