From “Delight (Within the Title of Love)” to “I Nonetheless Haven’t Discovered What I’m Trying For” to “Lovely Day,” U2 has made a legendary profession out of its tremendous earnest and pa**ionate anthems.

And their fearless chief Bono doesn’t care if his band’s unforgettable fireplace comes off as corny.

“Brian Eno … mentioned to us, ‘You already know, you shouldn’t be involved with issues like being cool. That will be uncool for you. Simply be yourselves,’ ” the 62-year-old singer says in “Bono & The Edge: A Kind of Homecoming, with Dave Letterman,” a docu-special premiering on Disney+ on March 17.

“You already know, and I look again now, and I understand that’s U2’s factor: ecstatic music. As a result of [when] you’re in that studio, you must have the braveness to leap off the constructing and imagine you’ll be able to fly.”

Within the particular — which takes place within the group’s hometown of Dublin — Bono additionally tells Letterman how one in every of U2’s signature anthems, “The place the Streets Have No Title,” modified for him after 9/11.

“I recall grappling with the idea of America and what it meant to me, and what it’d imply around the globe,” he says.

So when U2 carried out the music on the Tremendous Bowl simply six months after the assaults, he knew that “it is a fragile second” that required one thing much more shifting than their typical rock heroics on the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans. 

“I needed to make use of some exhortation, taking away regular spectacle and turning it right into a monument of rolling names,” says Bono within the particular, which arrives on the identical day as U2’s “Songs of Give up” album reimagining their cla**ics.

“The Tremendous Bowl halftimes are a spectacle. However the best spectacles are feelings.” 

And Bono explains the highly effective that means — or make that, feeling — behind the “uncommon brew of a music” that’s “The place the Streets Have No Title.”

“The lyric shouldn’t be very fleshed out,” he says. “However the suggestion contained within the lyric is gigantic.

“And what it appears to counsel is, there’s a transcendent place we are able to go to collectively. Do you need to come?”