U2 The Unforgettable Fire Poster Live"Hamburg 10/8/84" Start Price USD 25.00 Current Price USD 25.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, August 31, 2008 End Time Sunday, September 07, 2008 Location Fort Lauderdale, FL See more about 'U2 The Unforgettable Fire Poster Live"Hamburg 10/8/84" ' Description Original and authentic U2 Tour Poster from 1984In 1984 this poster cost 25 dollars and was available inside the event.Poster Measure's 20 1/2 x 28    Monday,October 8th,1984 at 8pm... Live from Hamburg with special Guest's Zerra1     This Poster feature's the band in a perfect state of awe. They had no Idea that they were going to be embarking of a tour that will go down in History as one which turned them from a Bar band to a band which could captivate a 100,000 people in a single venue. Their tour bumped into the Grateful Dead's in a few cities and where The Dead would play to maybe a hall that could hold 25-40,000 people the Band America was clamoring to see at the time was U2. They sold out arena's able to hold 70-100,000 people all across the nation.The impressive combination of popular and critical appeal that eventually enveloped U2 rivals any artist in rock history, and the best evidence of this rousing, straightforward style can be found in the group’s best songs, from which there are many to choose.This nearly perfect rocker from 1984’s The Unforgettable Fire represents the pinnacle of U2’s politically charged anthems. The band’s music thereafter would become increasingly personal and a bit less distantly observant, but as a tribute song of its type there may be no finer example in rock history. The song’s subject matter, the inspiring life and tragic death of Martin Luther King, undoubtedly holds massive appeal for Bono’s humanitarian worldview, and the resulting song is sublime.I am able to ship this first class to europe and australia for US $11.00This Poster was purchased through a collector of memorabilia on the east coast and it authentic and original. I have these stored flat and undamaged and are as bright and vibrant as the day they came off the presses. I have been Only In America as Don King say's!!!Beginning on 29 August 1984 at the Town Hall Auditorium in Christchurch, the tour’s first leg took place between the album's completion and release. Visiting Australia and  New Zealand for the first time, the band were far more popular than they had expected, entering a country for the first time as a "big" band. By selling 60,000 tickets over five nights in Sydney's Entertainment Centre, for instance, the tour dubbed 'Under Australian Skies' gave U2 a glimpse of the stardom that would soon follow.[1] Typically only "The Unforgettable Fire" and "Pride (In the Name of Love)" were played from the upcoming album at these shows, which more resembled a  War Tour setlist. The tour's second leg consisted of 21 shows in halls and arenas in Western Europe, and ran during October and November 1984. The third leg was a short series of 10 one-night stands in halls in major United States cities in December 1984, intended to gain positive notices in the press and provide a teaser of things to come for fans. The fourth leg was a return to Western Europe for 13 shows in January and February 1985, hitting cities that had been missed on the second leg. The fifth leg was a major tour of the United States and Canada, comprising 40 shows, in 29 different cities, and running from late February to early May 1985, now playing in arenas, with multiple nights in many of the locations. The band also played nine outdoor festival shows in late May through mid July 1985 in Western Europe, constituing a final leg of sorts. The tour's final performance was on 13 July 1985, their show-stealing performance at Live Aid. Especially during the long North American leg, the tour found U2 consistently playing in arenas for the first time, and sometimes for multiple nights. The group had reached the level of popularity where this was possible, but had not yet broken out into widespread fame and familiarity among the general rock and pop audience; that would come in 1987 with the release of The Joshua Tree. The Unforgettable Fire Tour popularity level is sometimes referred to as "mass cult", and is similar to, say, what Bruce Springsteen had on his  River Tour before  Born in the U.S.A. or what  Metallica had on their Damaged Jusice tour before their  Black Album. It made for intense concerts in this instance, because it provided a very large but fully devoted audience, with fans standing on chairs for the entire performance and continuing "40" refrains long after the show was over.  Place a Bid!