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One Tree Hill is the tallest of 5 volcanic islands in Auckland where Greg Carroll took Bono his first night in New Zealand.
Greg, a Māori from New Zealand, became an assistant and close friend of Bono after he met the band in 1985 in his country. He was killed a year later when he was hit by a car while running an errand for Bono on the latter’s motorcycle. The album The Joshua Tree, as well as this song, are dedicated to Greg.
Bono pays tribute to Greg in this live performance in Auckland, New Zealand.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp8ru3MpoBo
He says:
So, this next song means so much to us and it’s about a life unfairly snatched away. We wrote it for Greg Carroll whose family are with us tonight; his families are with us tonight.
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True enough. Rae has already told us street stories fit only for Cuban links niggas
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This may be a pun, with the “Pearl” being a pearl-handled pistol
Chinese gangsters there; they don't give a fuck Raekwon – Never Can Say Goodbye
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Canal Street is the main thoroughfare in NYC’s Chinatown. However, the NYC branch of famed restaurant Mr. Chow’s is actually on East 57th.
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St. John’s Wood is a posh (as they say over there) area of London that is home to some of the most expensive properties in the world
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The song that got millions of mid-90s teenage boys self-righteously indignant. Believe us – we were there…
Dexter Holland has said that people have often thought that this was a song based on him because the song is spoken in a first person perspective, but he got the idea from other people he knew about.
For many years, this has been the last song played at an Offspring concert.
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This line actually inspired the creation of a real-life Standin' On The Corner Park in Winslow
The mural in the picture is a trompe l'oeil (from the French for “to trick the eye”), where the image looks real from a distance but becomes two dimensional as the viewer gets closer.
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Former lead singer of Journey during their 80s heyday
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