U2 - I Shall Be Released

Conspiracy Of Hope 1986

Category:

Music

Tags:

• U2
• Shall
• Released
• Conspiracy
• Hope
• Amnesty
• International
• Bob
• Dylan
• Sting
• Police
• Peter
• Gabriel
• Brian
• Adams
• Joan
• Baez
• Live

[ShavaShav]

definitely, imo Richard Manuel lived this song and has the perfect falsetto for this

[frostythebush]

the last waltz version is about 10000000 times better

watch?v=BLjNjSpZxzg&feature=re­lated

[IzzyIsou]

Fail: Don't even bother with this version. If you want to hear 3 heartbreakingly beautiful versions, look for Richard Manuel, Nina Simone and Joe Cocker (all on YouTube).

[IzzyIsou]

Wow, remember when Bono wasn't a douche?

[mthivier]

Absolutely awesome performance by all, but the sound engineer should have been shot. Sure, let's get 35 or 40 music legends on one stage and then have the sound fading in and out and crackling like a shortwave radio.

[RDBeatnik]

Did somebody steal Bono's sunglasses?

[Rossonero072213]

@eeky1234

I agree with you about U2 (& almost everyone else who has recorded this song after the Band) missing the point of the song (something else that happened with Knockin' on Heaven's Door), but it is a Bob Dylan song.

[pclifto]

@eeky1234 because Dylan wrote it

[shumirules1]

Makes you understand that even though the band made it look easy, it really isnt.

[sebestans]

zac brown last waltz?..... NOT....

[funkdamentalist]

Heartlander- They get the words "wrong" cause that's how they are in the original release by The Band in '68. While Dylan recorded the song in '67 for the Basement Tapes (hence the credit eeky1234) it didn't make the cut. His band at the time was The Band (The Hawks then) so you'd think they'd be likely to get the words. This leads me to believe it might be a conscious change, not a mistake. Besides 'down to' vs 'unto' doesn't change the meaning. 'Unto' is just an archaic version of 'to'.