{"id":29666,"date":"2024-06-05T15:00:53","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T15:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-june-5-1983-u2-films-historic-concert-at-colorados-red-rocks-amphitheatre\/"},"modified":"2024-06-05T15:00:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T15:00:53","slug":"on-this-day-june-5-1983-u2-films-historic-concert-at-colorados-red-rocks-amphitheatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-june-5-1983-u2-films-historic-concert-at-colorados-red-rocks-amphitheatre\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, June 5, 1983: U2 films historic concert at Colorado\u2019s Red Rocks Amphitheatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-06-05\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, June 5, 1983 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">During a stop on their\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">War\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">tour,\u00a0<strong>U2\u00a0<\/strong>headlined Colorado\u2019s Red Rocks Amphitheatre and recorded the performance for what\u00a0would become\u00a0their first video release,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Live at Red Rocks: Under a Blood Red Sky<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">. The concert was nearly canceled due to inclement weather, but the band went on and played in the rain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The video featured a classic performance of &#8220;Sunday Bloody Sunday,&#8221; which\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Rolling Stone\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">called one of the &#8220;50 Moments that Changed the History of Rock and Roll.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The concert film went on to become a bestseller, and was crucial in cementing U2\u2019s reputation as a stellar live act and helped make them stars. The band later released a live album,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Under a Blood Red Sky<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, which featured eight tracks performed live during the\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">War\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">tour, with two songs from the same concert.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A remastered version of\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Live at Red Rocks\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">was released on DVD in 2008, featuring previously unreleased tracks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, June 5, 1983 &#8230; During a stop on their\u00a0War\u00a0tour,\u00a0U2\u00a0headlined Colorado\u2019s Red Rocks Amphitheatre and recorded the performance for what\u00a0would become\u00a0their first video release,\u00a0Live at Red Rocks: Under a Blood Red Sky. The concert was nearly canceled due to inclement weather, but the band went on and played<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-june-5-1983-u2-films-historic-concert-at-colorados-red-rocks-amphitheatre\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}