'Charged with the same politics that has set U2 apart from the bland pack of lyricists that abound in rock music today...'

Rattle and Hum, the title of both U2's brand-new album of the 1987 tour and the energetic performance documentary film released last week, is the sound of the band making contact: with music, with tradition, with their audience, with one another.

'Rattle and Hum is an expression of U2's urge to have it both ways'