Salvadorans enjoy private U2 gig

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Three Central American U2 fans who delivered a 60,000-name petition pleading for the band to play in El Salvador were rewarded last week with a private concert. The planet's biggest rock group played a short impromptu gig for the trio in Dublin last Thursday evening.

Frankie Rivas, a DJ and exile from El Salvador during the country's civil war of the 1980s, said...

"When we got (to the band's studio) Bono and the lads said hello and all of us were stunned. Then they played [new songs] No Line on the Horizon and Breathe for us. I couldn't believe it." He said the band had refused to give an answer as to the possibility of playing El Salvador on the world tour but would think about it….

U2 are adored in El Salvador because they dedicated a song - Bullet the Blue Sky - to the country and the plight of its people during its bloody civil war on their 1987 album The Joshua Tree.

Image- Sydney Morning Herald (AFP file photo)
Online Sources- Guardian UK