A broadcast of the event will air on CBS at a later date. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. The 45th Kennedy Center Honors ceremony will take place at the John F. We consider America to be a home away from home and we are very grateful to the Kennedy Center Honors for welcoming us into this great clan of extraordinary artists.” The band added, “It has been a four-decade love affair with the country and its people, its artists, and culture. Following the breakthrough success of the band's. They would make worse albums and commit bigger faux pas in the years following it, but Rattle & Hum deserves recognition for just how ill-conceived the whole project was from the start. The album was produced by Jimmy Iovine and was released on 10 October 1988, while the film was distributed by Paramount Pictures and was released on 27 October 1988. At this point, it’s far from controversial to suggest that Rattle & Hum represented a nadir for U2. But even in the wilder thoughts, we never imagined that 40 years on, we would be invited back to receive one of the nation’s greatest honors.” Rattle and Hum is a hybrid live/studio album by Irish rock band U2, and a companion rockumentary film directed by Phil Joanou. We had big dreams then, fueled in part by the commonly held belief at home that America smiles on Ireland. Follow the group across America, exploring new influences, playing with the legendary B.B.
From the giant technicolour stadium celebrations to the black-and-white intensity of the indoor shows, this is U2 at their best.
U2 RATTLE AND HUM MOVIE
Our first show was at The Ritz in New York City, the second, The Bayou in D.C. A concert movie on an unprecedented scale, Rattle And Hum captures U2 - on and off the stage - during their triumphant Joshua Tree tour.
In a joint statement on the honor, U2 said, “In December 1980, we made our first trip across the Atlantic to America.