U2 e Green Day come i Beatles!

Girovagando per il web ho trovato queste foto dell'anno scorso, che ritraggono Green Day e U2, mentre si divertono a riprodurre la mitica passeggiata dei Beatles su Abbey Road.


Queste immagini risalgono alla collaborazione tra il gruppo irlandese e quello americano per il singolo "The Saints are coming", il cui ricavato è andato interamente a Music Rising, la fondazione nata per aiutare i musicisti di New Orleans dopo l'uragano Katrina.


Il brano è una cover di una canzone degli Skids, una punk-rock band scozzese, sconosciuta ai più....me inclusa!

There is a house in New Orleans, They call the Rising Sun
It’s been the ruin of many a poor boy, and God, I know i’m one.

I cried to my daddy on the telephone,
how long now?
Until the clouds unroll and you come down,
the line went.
But the shadows still remain since your descent,
your descent.

I cried to my daddy on the telephone,
how long now?
Until the clouds unroll and you come home,
the line went.
But the shadows still remain since your descent,
your descent.

The saints are coming, the saints are coming.
I say no matter how I try, I realise there’s no reply.
The saints are coming, the saints are coming.
I say no matter how I try, I realise there’s no reply.

A drowning sorrow floods the deepest grief,
how long now?
Until the weather change condemns belief,
how long now?
And once was mainly coincidence believe,
Whats wrong now?

The saints are coming, the saints are coming
I say no matter how I try, I realise there’s no reply
The saints are coming, the saints are coming
I say no matter how I try, I realise there’s no reply
I say no matter how I try, I realise there’s no reply
I say no matter how I try, I realise there’s no reply

Ottima l'idea del video, dove le truppe americane stanziate in Iraq tornano a casa per portare in salvo la popolazione di New Orleans...



(Foto tratte da i siti xinhuanet e U2foreverWordpress)