U2 “Pride (In the Name of Love)” alternate limited edition 12″ single/EP, 1984. Includes on Side A, along with “Pride,” the instrumental “Boomerang I″ and the vaguely 80′s techno “Boomerang II.” Side B is “11 O’Clock Tick Tock (long version),” which was originally released as a non-album single in 1980, and that single’s b-side “Touch,” also on U2′s 1980 album Boy. Today, January 16th, is Martin Luther King Jr. Day and this hit U2 song is one of the most successful King tributes recorded (#3 in the UK and #33 in the US, U2′s first top 40 hit). The quote on the back cover is incredibly poignant for 2017 – “I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.”

One man come in the name of love
One man come and go
One man come he to justify
One man to overthrow

In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love

One man caught on a barbed wire fence
One man he resist
One man washed up on an empty beach
One man betrayed with a kiss

In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love

Early morning, April four
Shot rings out in the Memphis sky
Free at last, they took your life
They could not take your pride

In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love

In the name of love
What more in the name of love
In the name of love
What more in the name of love

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