“It’s been 40 days and 40 nights in the desert,” Bono acknowledged to the U2 fans in attendance on Saturday, March 2, the final night of The Sphere’s inaugural residency.
“What’s a fella with a Messianic complex gonna do?” he asked while The Edge, Adam Clayton, and temporary drummer Bram van den Berg quietly played the plodding “40” to the sold out $2 billion arena on the Las Vegas Strip.
The 1983 song’s haunting, repeated chorus of “how long to sing this song?” is what attendees of The Unforgettable Fire and Joshua Tree tours of the ’80s would sing in the parking lots heading to their cars on the way home.
U2 hadn’t played the tune from their third album,War, since 2016.
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