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Miracle Drug
"Miracle Drug" that he’d been storing up in his head. Then he
put out a collection called Dam-Burst of
Song by U2 from the album How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
Dreams,
Dreams which won a load of awards and he
Released 23 November 2004 went off to university and became a genius.
Recorded Hanover Quay Studios, Dublin
All because of a mother’s love and a medical
breakthrough.
Genre Rock
Length 3:54 The song shares a similar chord progression with their
1987 song "With or Without You", and features a rare
Label Island Records
background vocal appearance by U2’s drummer Larry
Writer U2 (music) Mullen, Jr. Indeed, it is one of only two U2 songs to fea-
Bono and The Edge (lyrics) ture three members of U2 on vocals - Bono, The Edge, and
Producer Steve Lillywhite Mullen. The only other is "Numb" from the Zooropa al-
bum.
How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb track listing "Miracle Drug" was played live at every show of the
first and second legs of the Vertigo Tour, with Bono using
"Vertigo" Miracle
"Miracle "Sometimes You Can’t Make It
(1) Drug
Drug" on Your Own" the song (and the story of Nolan) as a means of express-
(2) (3) ing his appreciation for doctors, nurses, and others in
the medical field. Towards the end of the third leg of the
"Miracle Drug is the second track from U2’s 2004 album,
Miracle Drug" tour, it was dropped and did not reappear on any of the
How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. It was written about the fourth or fifth leg shows. Its last performance on the Ver-
late Irish writer Christopher Nolan, with whom the band tigo Tour was November 28, 2005 in Montreal.
attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School. Bono
said of Nolan:[1] References
“ We all went to the same school and just as we ” [1] http://web.archive.org/web/20080417030257/
were leaving, a fellow called Christopher http://www.blender.com/guide/
Nolan arrived. He had been deprived of oxy- articles.aspx?id=1106
gen for two hours when he was born, so he
was paraplegic. But his mother believed he
could understand what was going on and used
to teach him at home. Eventually, they discov-
ered a drug that allowed him to move one
muscle in his neck. So they attached this uni-
corn device to his forehead and he learned to
type. And out of him came all these poems
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