Elevation Leg 3: 2001 North America   Warsaw show - Solidarity.
12 August 1997 Warsaw show - Solidarity. Warsaw show -
Solidarity. "New Year's Day" with added polish imagery -
especially of Lech Walesa and the Solidarity movement touches a
major chord.  Show Day Hippodrome, Warsaw. Its hard to describe
tonight's show in any meaningful way as it was so emotional and
so extraordinary. U2 have never been to Poland, so an enormous
number of people came to this show. The band had to delay show
time by fifteen or twenty minutes, as there was still such a
high volume of people still entering the park. In the end an
announcement was made asking everyone to move over to try and
let more people in. It was jammed full of people, and a very
loud and enthusiastic lot they were too. Once we got started,
the show was like holding onto a firework. The high point of the
show was New Year's Day. Its a little know fact that the song
was written about the Polish Solidarity movement, Lech Walesa &
his wife, and a few other abstr