Originally posted by u2retrobuffanyone have this interview & performance bootleg from central park 86........sun city give peace a chance etc
Seems U2 had trouble making it to Central Park!
From the sound of the story below, U2 made it in time for only one song. Also sounds more like either Bono or all U2 may have sang, but didn't play.
FROM LA TIMES:
Bono Hewson and the rest of U2 were on a tight schedule. The Irish rock quartet had flown from Chicago on a chartered 707 last week with the Police, Bryan Adams and the rest of the Amnesty International troupe for the final concert in a series of six Amnesty benefits.
They were whisked by van to a circus-like tent in the parking lot of Giants Stadium for a 2:30 p.m. press conference, where they explained why they had devoted two weeks to helping raise public awareness of the international human-rights organization.
An hour later, U2 and English singer Peter Gabriel got back into the van and raced to New York City's Central Park for an anti-apartheid rally that attracted an estimated 40,000 people.
The rally was running 90 minutes late, so U2 might just make it in time to sing "Sun City" with former Bruce Springsteen sidekick Steve Van Zandt. But the van driver couldn't find the escort that was supposed to lead the party into the park.
Forty-five minutes later, the musicians finally reached the bandstand -- just in time to join Van Zandt, Live Aid organizer Bob Geldof and a dozen other musicians on "Sun City."
Then it was time to go back to New Jersey to check into the hotel -- but the van had disappeared. Stranded, U2 followed the crowd out of the park and joined the scramble for cabs.
Three hours later, the van -- and the band's luggage -- finally surfaced at the hotel. Noting the hectic schedule, a member of the Amnesty entourage asked Hewson, "Do you think you guys try to do too much sometimes?"
