Suit and tie comes up to me His face red Like a rose on a thorn bush Like all the colours of a royal flush And he's peeling off those dollar bills — "Bullet the Blue Sky," 1987
U2's angry, angst-driven anthem was meant to be a stinging political commentary on President Ronald Reagan's '80s foreign policy, and the band's seminal work, The Joshua Tree, was, by extension, an explorative essay about Americana, with Nevada's desert plain serving as its cinematic lyrical leitmotif.
A Massachusetts public school chorus cancelled a performance planned for Easter Sunday Mass in Italy after an advocacy organization told school officials it would violate the First Amendment.
The chamber chorus at Groton-Dunstable Regional High School is planning to tour Europe in the spring. The highlight of the original schedule was a performance Easter Sunday at St. Anthony's Basilica in Padua, Italy, which is considered one of the most beautiful in Europe.
