Muscle Shoals, a new documentary about the Alabama town that hosted some amazing artists and recording sessions in the 1960s and ’70s, makes its debut at the Sundance Film Festival this Saturday … and Bono makes an appearance in the film.
His presence is a bit odd, at least to me, because I’m not aware of U2 ever actually recording in Muscle Shoals. (Did I miss something?)
In any case, Rolling Stone has a little more on the film, and we’ve embedded the trailer below if you haven’t seen it yet.
Bono was previously in a documentary on Stax Records, which does make a great deal of sense (though I won’t go into it here), and I believe in that documentary Muscle Shoals comes up as well, not just for a similar situation, but I believe because they were linked somehow in their later days - maybe one picked up the other’s acts or they used each others studios, something - been a while since I watched it. Anyway, real question for me is whether it’s the same footage of Bono or not.
It seems like they just stuck Bono in there to get more people to watch it.
I live about 20 minutes from Muscle Shoals, and as I sit at work, I am about 5 miles from Fame Studios. I can assure you, U2 have NEVER recorded here.
Bob Dylan, The Stones and Paul Simon, yes. U2? No.