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The official promo video for I Will Follow by U2.
U2's first ever promo video, and the first of many that they would go on to do with director Meiert Avis. Filmed in 1980, to accompany the single release of I Will Follow from the band's debut album, Boy.
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Lyrics:
I was on the outside when you said
You needed me
I was looking at myself
I was blind, I could not see.
A boy tries hard to be a man
His mother takes him by the hand
If he stops to think, he starts to cry
Oh why?
If you walk away, walk away
I walk away, walk away
I will follow.
If you walk away, walk away
I walk away, walk away
I will follow.
I will follow.
I was on the inside
When they pulled the four walls down
I was looking through the window
I was lost, I am found.
If you walk away, walk away
I walk away, walk away
I will follow.
If you walk away, walk away
I walk away, walk away
I will follow.
I will follow.
Your eyes make a circle
I see you when I go in there
Your eyes, your eyes
Your eyes, your eyes.
If you walk away, walk away
I walk away, walk away
I will follow.
If you walk away, walk away
I walk away, walk away
I will follow.
I will follow.
This IS their sound. The guitar is like no other.
They just played here in Vegas @ the new Sphere. So many people expressed their hate for this band! That's because they only know their newer stuff. They have NO idea how great they were back in the day! 🥰
Keith Levine and John McGeoch may disagree with you…
@@AdoniaTTI know right
Actually I heard it was taken from Siouxsie & the Banshees Jigsaw feeling.
@@jaimecamire1088 In fact, The Edge really had a deep inspiration on Siouxsie & the Banshees early guitarrists, specially John McGeoch.
Saw them in a small club in Madison, WI. in 1981. I knew they’d be big. After the show, all the band members came out to sign autographs, I still have my ticket with all their signatures. How cool was that?
I saw them in Albany NY 1981 at a college Mayfest. For 5 bucks. They were incredible .
Lucky boy
priceless!!
Hitsville in Passaic, New Jersey in '81. Oh to be 19 again and slam-dancing to this like a brainwashed maniac.
It must have been cool indeed.
Old school U2.. nothing like that..!!🥳🎶❤️🙌
After nearly 40 years, that opening guitar still has me up on my feet dancing! And, OMG, how young they look!
They WERE young
Your eyes make a circle
I am the same age 😂
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@@jessicagutierrez4727😅un
1. New Years Day
2. Gloria
3. Even Better Than The Real Thing
4. I Will Follow
5. Bullet The Blue Sky
@@kenbyrd3456 lady with the spinning head.
Baby U2 is cute.
U1 1/2
Jett Crash I Will Follow’s one of my favorite songs ever.
Achtung Baby
😊👍👍👍👍👍
Then over ten years later they became Achtung Baby!
The Guitar tone that was heard around the world! Love the Edge's sound!
So he got that sound from a Les Paul plugged into a Fender Dual Showman going through a Marshall cab? Magic sauce indeed.
Tbf, he wasn’t the very first, as Keith Levene and John McGeoch also had the tone.
The King of delay.
@@lordvader6512 not even close. He's a VOX AC30 man - with loads of effects.
@@lordvader6512 actually that's the sound of an Explorer plugged into a VOX AC30! Beautiful sounding guitar in a beautiful sounding amp! This would actually be the only time Edge played this song on a Les Paul until the Popmart tour some 15 years later! After the Popmart tour he smartly switched back and stuck with his signature Explorer.
The Edge gave them, well, the edge.
Thank God for U2.
And we’re still following❤
The bass player really drives this one.
The back up bass does help drive it tbh
I remember when this song came out I figured that this would be a one time hit wonder then fade away. Boy, was I wrong.
This album had the best drumming.
And guitar play by The Edge.
I concur!
This video is proof of the birth of the alternative music!
Amazing that their signature sound was already complete.
So much of that is The Edge 🎆
The older I get the more revolutionary I realize bands like U2 were - this stuff is FORTY YEARS OLD, but is as raw as it was day 1.
They weren't really.
They followed and immitated Echo and the Bunnymens early stuff.
Buy Crocodiles by the Bunnymen and listen to the real deal.
@@JohnDunham1 have to agree with you there. fairly standard early 80s new wave, although that's not a bad thing at all.
@@JohnDunham1 Also Cork band nun attax were arguably an influence. look up "white cortina".
Fuckin right
@@JohnDunham1 partly agree but look at the bunnymen post 84 a shadow of what they were moreso than U2
Early 80's...what a great time to be a early teen.
Absolutely! I was around 15 when this jam was playing over the radio 📻 air waves.
Just turned 13 nov 2021 😒🙄 dam, really missed out. TH-cams the closet I can get to a time machine
Absolutely. If you were born in '67 you had the luck to hit a really sweet spot in history when it comes to music.
Yup!!!
I was to ,in the early 80s. The best ever, me a teenager.
This is one of those rare songs that has a power about it.
HAIR!! Wow, you guys, their hair is hilarious! I've been following U2 music for most of my life. But I haven't seen this video before. HAIR!!
First u2 song i ever heard, my brother said you gotta hear this band
Our band is going to practice this on Monday night. Wish us luck.
❤🔥
They were sooo young in this video my god
This has been one of my most favourite songs (EVER) since I was a young girl in the 80’s. It has made my spirit soar when I’m already happy and lifted it during incredibly difficult times in my life. Never underestimate the power of music and it’s importance in our lives and the human psyche ♥️♥️♥️🙌🙌🙌
I was born on 81, and remember the early 90's as the best times listening to 80's. This song brings back deep memories of my alone adventures in the wilderness, trying to find a point in living this life. I played alot of u2 and simple minds music on a walk man during these times. In 2005 I finally figured it out, and decided that life is worth living
Me too... hard to type ..I'm bouncing !!
Completely agree.
I was born in 1981 also, the 80s were amazing. Music is so important and U2 is one of my favorite bands. 🎶❤️🔥🎶
msbindydney2…Powerful words…Love your comment…Sharon
I remember exactly where I was in 1982 when a college friend played U2 for me.....never forgot. Boy October War ....after that, hit and miss imho.
Great song
So young looking especially the drummer!
Yep. They were just 18 and 19 by that point.
Larry Mullen Jr!
They are so young in this, adorable.
Loved the post-punk vibe this band has. I think they might be famous someday
@Bob Donald WOOSH
This song did it for me. I was hooked right away. I asked my sister’s friend to play this over and over. I guess she had the album. I’m still hoo
Hooked over 40 years. I’ve seen them a few times. This is my favorite band from that time.
U2 never bested this song in my decades of Ethnomusicology. I wonder if they still perform this live. ❤🔥
They were little kids. Sucks getting old.
Four Irish lads with the world before them!
The Irish invasion
And they had no idea what was about to happen to them at this point.
*Fun fact:* This would be the only time Edge would use a Les Paul to play I Will Follow until the Popmart tour some 15 years later. And after the Popmart tour he (smartly) went back to, and stuck with his signature Explorer when performing I Will Follow. This would also be the only time we'd ever see Edge use a black Les Paul, despite the vast catalogue of guitars at his disposal.
One of their underrated classics. U2 RULES! MTV days!
It's always funny to see young Bono trying to figure out which cammera he's supposed to look at 🤭🤭
you're reading way too far into the vid. I'd say not on what you stated.
@@nellig_anne- I absolutely laugh.
😂😂😂👍✌
He did good in the end
Early U2, a defining sound. It launched a genre
❤ I WILL FOLLOW 🎉🎉🎉😊
It’s very punk I love it 🙏😎
This is one of their best tracks ever with an actual rock beat to it...
the drum part is beautifully simple but expressive as hell
Exactly. This is probably the closest they came to 80s punk.
This song has one of the catchiest beats of any song ever written :D I love the drum beat and Edge's guitar sound!
@@ForrestGump1212 indeed
The drum beat is stolen from Stephen Morris of Joy Division. I still like this song though.
Still one of my favourite U2 songs, this and New Years Day.
You're cultured, those 2 are EXACTLY my 2 favorites. I heard New Year's Day on the radio in 2019 and I've loved U2 since.
@@dj-um7el Damn. You didn't hear New Year's Day until 2019?
@@VicInNocal most crappy music on the radio now that's why.
I was born in 2006 tho.
i say my top 4 songs by them are new years day, i will follow, desire, unforgettable fire.
Same here! Kismet.
Paul “Bono” Hewson
David “The Edge” Evans
Adam Clayton
Lawrence Mullen
A generation old, and still running!
My old copies of 'Boy' and 'October' credit him only as Larry.
Makes me wonder if he was trying the Mononymous thing like Bono and Edge, which would be kinda funny
Absolutely Paul "Bono Vox" Hewson!
I was going to go to the Public Library spending the weekend ,pure bliss, looking this up you beat me to it. Cheeky!
Almost two generations old at 44
I wanna wish a Happy early 64th Birthday to U2’s Bass Guitar Adam Clayton
1:21
Down a wormhole back to 1980 for me, eek!! ❤
I was 2 years old. Nothing in the world like the 80's. It was a fantastic time to be a kid. I didn't get into music until I was about five, that was 1985, I had a keen ear for sound and good music. So I remember this song, even though I didn't hear it until years later. But it was so catchy.
Innocents of youth , was still with them , great music , still enjoying U 2 , music , . . .
“A Boy Tries Hard To Be A Man” 🇮🇪✌🏻💜
“His Mother Takes Him By The Hand”
👍👍💥👍💥
Eran tan jovencitos y bellos
U2 had it from the start.
Hey, that’s a pretty strong debut. Wonder if they’ll go anywhere.
Omg I spit up my drink when I read that! Ha!
Still their best song imo, lots of good songs, at their best in the 80s to early 90s i think.
Thats a pretty strong comment. You're goin' places, kid!
They’re not bad. I think they have a chance. 😎🤟
Imagine being the record company that passed on these kids
That guitar sounds like a cavalry trumpet. I embraced this song as soon as it came out, so fresh!
omg they are all just babies!!!
The dislikes are from people who cannot appreciate great music. Lots of love from India
You mean...Trolls!
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@@federico8332 Teen U2 Lovers like you and me(I'm 14) are rare!!
Nailed it Mr. Sankar
@@a_star7233 I support all kinds of music. I'm not biased to only one kind
As good here as they ever were.
For me, that's th best Rock song ever!!!
The Last American Virgin brought me here! ❤️
Bono looks so young in this video.
This song gives me a surge of energy. I seen U2 twice in concert.
They are unforgettable.
Its the beggining of the u2
yes Bono was only 20 here now he is 60 and still sounds totally awesome!!
@@teresaellis1393almost 64, welcome to senior citizen hood
He looked so much better with his hair like that.
Tha Boy album remains, by far, the best U2 album has ever recorded.
Yeah, right, cos you said so. Others say it is The Unforgettable Fire, others say it is The Joshua Tree and many say it is Achtung Baby. And then there are some who say Pop is their best and most brilliant album. The fact is U2 recorded many great albums during their formidable career.
The thing with U2 is its just not possible to say one member is the star.
In every performance each band member is the man of the match in his own right. I believe that is a long way responsible for their continued success.
They have a very unique chemistry between the 4 band members. They are all very important to the band. For me U2 have so many brilliant songs and there are very few other groups that come close.
Their early 80s bass guitar driven tunes were by far their best
The bass line in New Years Day!! 😉😉😜👍🎸
In my opinion the best time from U2.
The pieces had incredible power and were absolutely unadulterated (fast, hard without compromise)
Reason why I love their older stuff
A boy named Paul....not McCartney but Hewson, a lad from Dublin, Ireland. Just 14 years young, he loses his grandfather, and if that wasn't tough enough for a young lad, his Mother passes away tragically at the funeral. A difficult situation to say the very least to bury your Mother at such a tender age. Tragedy can put us in dire situations and leave us feeling utterly depressed and helpless, but we *can* emerge and find ourselves through creative expression like singing or playing an instrument. Thankfully, Paul found his creative outlet in his youth and just six years after his Mom's death, he joins forces with 3 other lads to form the band the whole world knows as U2. In this song, and many others you can hear a little pain in Bono's voice, but he was victorious and made his way through, and made a nice living actually. Thank you Paul, Adam, David and Larry for your 40+ years of great music to help us find solace and love in this world.
Is there another Dublin, elsewhere?
@@moyajanko6642 Dublin, Ohio
One of best debuts of all time.
That glockenspiel gets to me every time. Saw them at ‘The Ritz’ in NYC when this album came out.☮️❤️🌈
Damn them leather slacks are something else
Soo 80s I love this song just want to go back and stay
one of my favourite songs...
Im so glad i got to see them, when they first came to America in the early 80s
So YOUNG!! 😆 ❤️ Still one of my favourites. One of their best!
I will follow U2, I will follow until the end of my life.
Mee too
Me too. U2 forever....
Simply the best
Provocative and surrealistic, this priceless music video color footage.
Bono kinda looks and dances like Siouxsie Sioux in the video for the song _Hong Kong Garden_ by Siouxsie and the Banshees
Need to dust off my U2 collection and listen to their earlier music. This takes me back to 1982 when I first started to hear about them. Brilliant song.
I've just discovered this song and I can't stop listening to it. TH-cam sometimes has really good recommendations
You don't know U2???
@@LucasLima-ov4mq i know them, i just never really listened to them on purpose, especially not to their earlier albums
@@majestictwelve2401 Cool my friend, this song have many great live performances, i recommend on U2 Elevation Tour: Live From Boston (2001) & U2 At Red Rocks (1983).
Me too.
@@majestictwelve2401 Their earlier music is the best...just my thoughts
This should be voted the best post punk song of 1980
Look at 18 year old Larry Mullen Jr back there. Just a baby.
The TH-cam time machine is priceless.
It's awesome seeing this iconic band in it's early years.
Perhaps my favorite from these gentlemen
GAWD! They were so young when they made this video!
My Uncle was advised to check out 'the up and coming Irish band' the first time that they came to Boston. He did, and was very impressed. The club was packed.
Fantastic.
Wonderful-thank you!!
Now im 54. And still in love.
64 here and still in love too! August 2024.
ONE OF The last great Rock bands
Don't know how many years it's been since I've heard this song, I remember listening to it in Max Club in Hanau, Germany. 85.
I would like to visit Germany
The best songs there are can rock you out on tiny tinny transistor radio.
This song is so good!! It's timeless.
Getting Inhaler vibes, especially from the singer. Mark my words, this band is gonna be big!
Agree, hopefully they become massive😂
I just don't see it... now personally, I think this other band who are kinda friends with U2... Shook Up... they have massive appeal!
@@c.mckenna1234 think she knows, that's the joke
@@c.mckenna1234 easily done😂
@@karlclemmy2054 yes HAHAHAHA
AWWW THEY'RE BABIES AWW
The drummer 1st class.
Thank you U2
My god, look at how young Bono was in this video. He's got his whole life ahead of him and Randy Marsh isn't even a glint in his eye.
this, incredibly, is also a fantastic field of dreams reference
I wanna wish a Happy early 64th Birthday 🎂 to U2’s Lead Singer Paul David Hewson Bono!!!!
0:01
I will Follow...
I was on the outside when you said
You said you needed me
I was looking at myself
I was blind, I could not see
A boy tries hard to be a man
His mother takes him by his hand
If he stops to think he starts to cry
Oh why
If you walkaway, walkaway
I walkaway, walkaway...I will follow
I was on the inside
When they pulled the four walls down
I was looking through the window
I was lost, I am found
Your eyes make a circle
I see you when I go in there
Your eyes, your eyes...
First album is magic!
U2 Number One group Rock......
U2 were the best back in the day.
This is probably my favorite era of U2...but I do love How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb too.
Yes it's great too
The best band in the universe. Finally, this video is available on TH-cam.
Br with love. From the amazon.
Can Brasil to give hugs? 😅
I think NOFX is better.
Hello there from dublin..Ireland 🇮🇪
Tbm sou do brasil amo u2
Back when they were still cool. If there was some way for them to get back to this....
I concur
Greetings from Dublin, Ireland
Bono's early and charmingly, not quite perfected dance moves. Larry looks so young and cute here, it's like they had their kid brother fill in. I so love the raw, punk influence and energy of their early stuff!
Yep. And the vinyl still sounds good.
The drum signatures in this song are epic..all conventional drummers still confused about what magic happened here..Larry is great..!!
Not bonham or peart
@@chriswisman8532 Yes..legends are an exception..!!
It's a standard 4/4 rock beat
My favorite song💕💕💕😍😍😍
Opening track of Boy album.. shot me down for decades.
Love this song and video. I never noticed till now that Edge is playing a Gibson Les Paul and not his '76 Explorer in this video.
the first album is my favorite. they are so damn young here.
I've always been a U2 fan ever since this era. And I grew up with MTV during it's golden age. Never seen, or even knew of, this video till now.
This is the first time I've seen this video too, in Sept 2023. Gotta laugh at the cheesy low budget green screen effects. But they were sure good - and young. On their way to greatness.