<P> "Sunday Bloody Sunday" was used during the Vertigo Tour of 2005 and 2006, often alongside "Bullet the Blue Sky" and "Love and Peace or Else" as a trio of politically driven songs performed during the middle part of the band's set . Bono extended the "no more!" interlude to explain a headband he had donned in the previous song . The headband depicted the word "coexist" (written to depict a crescent, a Star of David, and a Christian cross). The Coexist symbol is trademarked in the United States by an LLP in Indiana, and the original artwork was created in 2001 by a Polish artist . As with the 2001 shows, the Vertigo tour saw the song applied to subjects further afield than The Troubles in Northern Ireland . During 2006 Australian shows, in Brisbane, Bono asked for Australian Terrorism suspect David Hicks to be brought home and tried under Australian laws . In subsequent Australian concerts he dedicated the song to the victims of the 2002 Bali bombings--where 88 of the fatalities were Australians--saying' This is your song now!' . The song was also performed at every concert on the U2 360 ° Tour, paying tribute to the 2009 Iranian election protests on each occasion by projecting scenes from the protests and Persian writing in green on the video screen . </P> <P> "Sunday Bloody Sunday" has been played as the opening song at shows on the Joshua Tree Tour 2017 . </P> <P> Although a promotional music video had not been produced for the original release, the band used footage from a 5 June 1983 live performance filmed for the concert film U2 Live at Red Rocks: Under a Blood Red Sky to promote the song . Directed by Gavin Taylor, the video displays Bono's use of a white flag during performances of the song . The video highlights the intensity and emotion felt by many audience members during U2's concerts, while the rainy, torch - lit setting in Colorado's Red Rocks Amphitheatre further adds to the atmosphere . In 2004, Rolling Stone cited the performance as one "50 Moments that Changed the History of Rock and Roll" and noted that "the sight of Bono singing the anti-violence anthem' Sunday Bloody Sunday' while waving a white flag through crimson mist (created by a combination of wet weather, hot lights and the illumination of those crags) became the defining image of U2's warrior - rock spirit and--shown in heavy rotation on MTV--broke the band nationwide ." </P> <P> The album version of "Sunday Bloody Sunday" was originally included on War, but it can also be heard on a number of promotional releases, including the compilations The Best of 1980 - 1990 and U218 Singles . Several live versions have been released; the video available on Live at Red Rocks: Under a Blood Red Sky is from a performance at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in June 1983, but the version on the live album Under a Blood Red Sky is from a performance on August 20th, 1983 during the Rockpalast Open Air music festival at the Lorelei, (West) Germany . Audio from the Sarajevo concert of 1997 is featured as a b - side on 1997's single "If God Will Send His Angels ." The song also appears on Rattle and Hum, PopMart: Live from Mexico City, Elevation 2001: Live from Boston, U2 Go Home: Live from Slane Castle, Vertigo 2005: Live from Chicago, Live from Paris, U2 3D, U2 360 ° at the Rose Bowl and in the closing credits of the 2002 TV film Bloody Sunday . The only concert films that "Sunday Bloody Sunday" does not appear on are Zoo TV: Live from Sydney and Vertigo 05: Live from Milan . </P>

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