'ELEVATION OVER COLOGNE'

Elevation Cologne, Germany
12 July 2001

(65:58)
(66:43)

Disc 1:
1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band
2. Elevation
3. Beautiful Day
4. Until the End of the World
5. New Year's Day
6. Kite
7. New York
8. I Will Follow
9. Sunday Bloody Sunday
10. In My Life
11. Stuck In A Moment
12. In A Little While
13. Desire/Hawkmoon 269/Running To Stand Still 

Disc 2:
1. Stay
2. Bad / Wild Horses / "40"
3. Where the Streets Have No Name
4. Mysterious Ways
5. The Fly
6. Bullet the Blue Sky
7. With Or Without You
8. One
9. Walk On 



NOTE: This is an excellent recording featuring great sound quality and clarity. Audience noise is minimal. 

The awesome Hawkmoon 269/Desire/Running To Stand Still medley alone is enough to convince almost any U2 fan to acquire this bootleg. "Hawkmoon" hadn't been played since the Lovetown tour over a decade ago. To be honest, it's not really played during this show, but Bono sings the 90 seconds worth of the lyrics with The Edge playing the opening notes of "Desire" softly in the background. The band then launches into "Desire", at the end of which Bono starts singing "Running To Stand Still" virtually unaccompanied seemingly on a whim. Again, the song is not played in its entirety, but almost two minutes are included. At the end, The Edge segues back into the closing notes of "Desire" and Bono plays his bit on the harmonica. It is truly an incredible performance. Even with the band changing the setlist a bit on the Elevation tour, U2 hasn't displayed this type of spontaneity for many, many years.