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This article is from the U2 FAQ, by Maryann Stump stumpm@juno.com with numerous contributions by others.

2.2.3 Tell me all about the song "Pride (in the name of love)" (U2)

"Why does Bono sing 'Early morning, April Four' in Pride, when MLK was
shot in the early evening?"
[JV] The Wire answer is basically that he either screwed up or exercised
poetic license to make it fit better.

[GM] Bono says he screwed up. He sometimes sings 'Early evening, April
4' The song's origins came during
the War Tour in a sound check in Hawaii. The original lyrics were
anti-Reagan with 'What more in the name of
love' also being a featured lyric according to The Edge. The song
evolved into one about martyrs and those who
create them.

[P] This in no way is an effort to justify what is a glaring historical
inaccuracy in the song, but .... When Bono
heard the news as a 7-year-old in Dublin, it WAS early morning. BUT ...
it was early in the morning on April
5th when he would have heard the news.

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