This is the album, the songs...that literally saved my life...maybe about 5 or 6 years after it's release. I don't remember the timing...some of that time period is "in the black". But that story is for another day...or maybe never. Let me just say, thank God for Streets, the long intro especially...it played over and over in my head when I needed a lifeline.
Anyway...when the JT was released, I was 32 or 33 years old, sort of happy, sort of healthy, good job, living a sort of good life (or so I thought). I was, at the time, collecting U2...I always bought 2 vinyl copies, one that I listened to, and one that was never opened. Due to the circumstances in my life at the time, I was unable to go to concerts, and I never saw U2 play live until 2015...
I can say that I DID get to attend many great rock shows in the 70's...before my life got weird. So, I'm lucky in that.