Editing Rattle and Hum (section)

==Live performances==
[[File:McNichols Sports Arena 1994.jpg|thumb|The band were filmed at [[McNichols Sports Arena]] in November 1987.]]
The band chose to film the black-and-white footage over two nights at [[Denver]]'s [[McNichols Sports Arena]] on 7 and 8 November 1987. They chose the city following the success of their ''[[U2 Live at Red Rocks: Under a Blood Red Sky]]'' video which was filmed in [[Red Rocks Amphitheatre]] near Denver in 1983. The Edge said, "We thought lightning might strike twice". The first night's performance disappointed the group, with Bono finding that the cameras infringed on his ability to play to the crowd.<ref name="McGee 2008, p. 112"/> The second Denver show was far more successful and seven songs from the show are used in the film, and three on the album.

Hours before the second Denver performance, an [[Provisional Irish Republican Army|IRA]] bomb killed eleven people at a [[Remembrance Day]] ceremony in the Northern Irish town of [[Enniskillen]] (see [[Remembrance Day Bombing]]). During a performance of "Sunday Bloody Sunday", which appears on the film, Bono condemned the violence in a furious mid-song rant in which he yelled, "Fuck the revolution!" The performance was so powerful that the band said they were not sure the song should have been used in the film. After watching the film, they considered not playing the song on future tours.<ref>McGee (2008), p. 113</ref>

Colour outdoor concert footage is from the band's [[Tempe, Arizona|Tempe]], Arizona shows on 19 and 20 December 1987. Tickets were sold for US$5 each and both nights sold out within days. The set was different each night with the band throwing in some rarely performed songs, including "Out of Control", "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)", "One Tree Hill", and "Mothers of the Disappeared". For the latter, all four members played at the front of the stage, each under a large spotlight.

The album opens with a live cover of [[the Beatles]]' "[[Helter Skelter (song)|Helter Skelter]]". Its inclusion on the album was intended by the band to reflect the confusion of The Joshua Tree Tour and their new-found superstar status. Bono opens "Helter Skelter" with this statement: "This is a song [[Charles Manson]] stole from the Beatles. We're stealing it back".<ref>Graham (2004), p. 36</ref>

The album contains a live version of [[Bob Dylan]]'s "[[All Along the Watchtower]]". The performance is from the band's impromptu "Save the Yuppies" concert in [[Justin Herman Plaza]] in San Francisco, California on 11 November 1987. The video intersperses the performance of the song with footage from the band's performance of "Pride" from the same show, during which Bono spray-painted "Rock and Roll Stops the Traffic" on the [[Vaillancourt Fountain]]. This caused a bit of controversy, and ultimately, the band paid to repair the damage and publicly apologised for the incident. The phrase "Rock and Roll Stops the Traffic" reappeared 18 years later in the video "All Because of You" when an unnamed fan appeared with the sign at 1:55 in the video.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlBdaxB1Wy4 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/rlBdaxB1Wy4| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=U2 All Because of You|date=30 May 2006 |publisher=YouTube|access-date=10 August 2011}}{{cbignore}}</ref> It also reappeared in February 2009, when the band played on the rooftop of the BBC Radio studios in Langham Place.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/feb/28/u2-bono-gig-pop-music?intcmp=239|title=U2 attract 5,000 with rooftop homage to the Fab Four|newspaper=[[The Guardian]] | first=Sam|last=Jones|date=28 February 2009}}</ref>

Dennis Bell, director of New York gospel choir The New Voices of Freedom, recorded a demo of a gospel version of "[[I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For]]".<ref>McGee (2008), p. 104</ref> While in Glasgow in late July during the Joshua Tree Tour, Rob Partridge of Island Records played the demo for the band.<ref>McGee (2008), p. 109</ref> In late September, U2 rehearsed with Bell's choir in a Harlem church, and a few days later they performed the song together at U2's [[Madison Square Garden]] concert. Footage of the rehearsal is featured in the movie, while the Madison Square Garden performance appears on the album.<ref>McGee (2008), pp. 110–111</ref> After the church rehearsal, U2 walked around the Harlem neighbourhood where they came across blues duo, [[Satan and Adam]], playing in the street. A 40-second clip of them playing their composition, "Freedom for My People", appears on both the movie and the album.<ref>McGee (2008), p. 111</ref>

During "Silver and Gold", Bono explains that the song is an attack on [[apartheid]]. "The Star Spangled Banner" is an excerpt of [[Jimi Hendrix]]'s famous [[Woodstock Festival|Woodstock]] performance in 1969. The noise of the crowd was sampled extensively by [[The KLF]] for 'the Stadium House Trilogy' of singles on their 1991 album ''[[The White Room (KLF album)|The White Room]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cardhouse.com/x07/klf.html|title=KLF Interview|publisher=cardhouse.com|access-date=10 August 2011}}</ref>

Alternative live concert footage captured for the film in other cities during the 1987 tour (but ultimately not used for the final cut of the film) included:

*Foxboro, Massachusetts, [[Foxboro Stadium]], 22 September 1987
*Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, [[JFK Stadium]], 25 September 1987
*New York, NY, [[Madison Square Garden]], 28 September 1987
*Long Island, New York, Rehearsals on a beach, 19 October 1987
*Boston, Massachusetts, [[Boston Garden]], 18 September 1987 (color footage)