{"id":5134,"date":"2011-06-21T23:52:05","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T23:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=5134"},"modified":"2019-01-10T23:05:51","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T07:05:51","slug":"u2-fans-a-hairy-look-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2011-06\/u2-fans-a-hairy-look-back\/","title":{"rendered":"U2 Fans&#8211;A Hairy Look Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen it, check out the first <strong>U2<\/strong> performance on American television in 1981 on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2010-04\/magnificence-on-the-tom-snyder-show\/\"><strong>Tom Snyder&#8217;s Tomorrow Show<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 We watched it that night and were forever sold.\u00a0 Even then <strong>Bono <\/strong>was evincing his shamanistic tendencies, demanding and getting the audience to get up out of their seats for a band that the audience most likely had not heard before that 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