When we rock stars talk about freedom, we more often mean libertinism than liberation, but growing up in the Ireland of the 1960s, that had its place, too.
In U2 we wanted our song 'Pride (In the Name of Love)' to sound like the freedom we were campaigning for in our work with Amnesty International. That's how insufferable we were.
We promised we would never forget. Yes, freedom was stalled here, suppressed there, but not forever, we thought. Walls were made to tumble.
I think my generation believed that consciousness itself was evolving, that humankind was moving inevitably toward being freer and more equal-despite five or six millennia of evidence to the contrary.
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