Exit & Gloria - U2

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Robert John Bardo, a stalker who murdered American actress Rebecca Schaeffer in 1989, claimed this song compelled him to kill her. Schaeffer starred in the sitcom My Sister Sam. The lyrics convey the dark impulses of a desperate man. At an LA concert on November 18, 1987, Bono said, "This is a song about a religious man who became a very dangerous man when he couldn't work out the mystery, on the hands of love." Bono slipped on the stage and dislocated his shoulder while performing this at ...