{"id":25204,"date":"2015-12-07T17:49:21","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T01:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=25204"},"modified":"2015-12-08T07:33:37","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T15:33:37","slug":"in-paris-u2-patti-smith-and-eagles-of-death-metal-paid-homage-to-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2015-12\/in-paris-u2-patti-smith-and-eagles-of-death-metal-paid-homage-to-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"In Paris:  U2, Patti Smith and Eagles of Death Metal Paid Homage to Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/U2-Paris.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-25207\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/U2-Paris-650x432.jpg\" alt=\"U2 Paris\" width=\"635\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/U2-Paris-650x432.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/U2-Paris-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/U2-Paris-450x299.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/U2-Paris.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh to have been in Paris the last two nights (any time, really). \u00a0On those nights <strong>U2<\/strong> rescheduled their shows cancelled in the wake of the Parisian terrorist attacks on November 13th. \u00a0On Sunday<strong> U<\/strong>2 brought with them<strong> Patti Smith<\/strong> to help sing her version of <em><strong>Gloria<\/strong> <\/em>and also the apropos anthem<em><strong> People Have The Power<\/strong><\/em>. And tonight <strong>U2<\/strong> brought out <strong>Eagles of Death Metal<\/strong> (who were the headliners at the<strong> Bataclan<\/strong> on that fateful night in November) to perform<em><strong> I Love You All The Time<\/strong> <\/em>(which artists have been covering as requested by the band in support of the Parisian victims) and <em><strong>People Have The Power<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Check out those powerful, heart-stirring performances below. \u00a0Along the way, <strong>Bono<\/strong> said to the Parisian audience:\u00a0\u201cGrief is like a wound that never fully closes. I am still feeling it and I was 14 when my mother left me but she left me as an artist and this wound became an opening into another world and I found these three (pointing to his band). Rock n\u2019 roll saved me, these men saved me, you saved me. \u00a0We can\u2019t save you but our role tonight is to serve you. We have the privilege to be your servants this evening.\u201d \u00a0As an introduction to <strong>Eagles of Death Metal, Bono<\/strong> graciously said:\u00a0\u201cThey were robbed of their stage three weeks ago. We\u2019d like to offer them ours tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The concert was filmed by<strong> HBO<\/strong> and will be broadcast tonight.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/cdn.playwire.com\/bolt\/js\/zeus\/embed.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" data-config=\"\/\/config.playwire.com\/1008730\/videos\/v2\/4372723\/zeus.json\" data-width=\"100%\" data-height=\"100%\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wzi_A2cyWu8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ox-vN4YP_FU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh to have been in Paris the last two nights (any time, really). \u00a0On those nights U2 rescheduled their shows cancelled in the wake of the Parisian terrorist attacks on November 13th. \u00a0On Sunday U2 brought with them Patti Smith to help sing her version of Gloria and also the apropos anthem People Have The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25204"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25210,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25204\/revisions\/25210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}