35 years ago today, the Irish band U2 played the Red Rocks Amphitheater near Denver. The concert was released as an LP, ‘Live At Red Rocks: Under A Blood Red Sky‘.

It was also the band’s first video release and the dramatic rain-soaked, torch-lit atmosphere made it a best-seller. WATCH the film, when Bono and Edge perform I Will Follow… (1983)

MORE Good News on this Day:

  • US Secretary of State George Marshall called for economic aid to rebuild war-torn Europe during a speech at Harvard University; the beginning of the Marshall Plan (1947)
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