• "Red Hill Mining Town" is a song by the rock band U2. It is the sixth track from their 1987 album, The Joshua Tree. A rough version of this song was worked...
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  • the hands of the local government. The 1984 UK mining strike inspired the lyrics for "Red Hill Mining Town", which Bono wrote from the perspective of a...
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    but peaked at number 28 on the Netherlands' Single Tip Chart. "Red Hill Mining Town (2017 Mix)" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100, but peaked at number...
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  • concerts, which included their first live performances of the song "Red Hill Mining Town". It was the first time the group toured in promotion of an album...
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  • is the fifth track on U2's 1984 album, The Unforgettable Fire. "Red Hill Mining Town" is the sixth track from U2's 1987 album, The Joshua Tree. "Running...
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  • You Can't Get Out Of" All That You Can't Leave Behind 4:34 14. "Red Hill Mining Town" The Joshua Tree 5:02 15. "Ordinary Love" (music: U2, Brian Burton;...
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  • Joshua Tree on a bonus disc of outtakes and B-sides. Initially, "Red Hill Mining Town" was planned for release as the second single. However, Bono was...
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  • the third single from The Joshua Tree was meant to be the song "Red Hill Mining Town", but "Where the Streets Have No Name" was released instead, in August...
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    notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link) "When Love Comes to Town" (Media notes). U2. Island Records. 1988.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint:...
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  • record's eleven tracks, and the only song not to be played was "Red Hill Mining Town". Tickets for shows were often very hard to get, especially on the...
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    October 1984 to raise money for the strikers and their families. "Red Hill Mining Town", by U2 is about the breakdown of relationships during the strike...
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    The Sterling Hill Mine, now known as the Sterling Hill Mining Museum, is a former zinc mine in Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey, United States. It...
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  • "Luminous Times", and "Spanish Eyes". February: U2 shoot a video for "Red Hill Mining Town", which was intended to be one of the album's singles but it was...
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  • song "Thunder Road". * Track #12 includes lyrics of the U2 song "Red Hill Mining Town" and the Sordid Humor song "Dorris Day". Jim Bogios – drums, vocals...
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    a corrupt Montana mining town. Some of the novel was inspired by the Anaconda Road massacre, a 1920 labor dispute in the mining town of Butte, Montana...
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    Mining is the extraction of valuable geological materials and minerals from the surface of the Earth. Mining is required to obtain most materials that...
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    recorded to benefit striking miners "Red Hill Mining Town", 1987 U2 song about the effect of the strike on small mining communities Sting discography Leader...
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    reputation as one of the wildest mining towns in the West. Today Mogollon is listed as Fannie Hill Mill and Company Town Historic District on the National...
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    a new venture in tin mining. He set up a tin-ore trading post in Tras. As mining activity flourished at the foot of Fraser's Hill, Fraser became a tin...
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    Arklow (category Port cities and towns in the Republic of Ireland)
    the home town of pop singer and former Moloko member Róisín Murphy. The Arklow Silver Band were featured on the track Red Hill Mining Town by U2, on...
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  • 1974 and of August 1998. Sand Mining also takes place in the Stockton sand dunes north of Newcastle and in the Broken Hill region in the far west of the...
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    Kambalda, Western Australia (category Mining towns in Western Australia)
    nickel mining towns. Apart from the Red Hill Lookout with its views over Lake Lefroy, and the opportunity to drive across the causeway, the town offers...
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  • Blue Sky" "Running to Stand Still" "Red Hill Mining Town" "In God's Country" "Trip Through Your Wires" "One Tree Hill" "Exit" "Mothers of the Disappeared"...
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    is a former hill station that was abandoned after being bombed by the Japanese army during World War II. Bukit Besi is a former mining town in Terengganu...
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    Camino Minerals Corporation, submitted a petition to mine Red Beds to the Geological, Mining and Metallurgical Institute (Instituto Geológico Minero y...
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  • Red Dog (also known as Brooklyn or Brooklin) was a California gold rush mining town located in the Gold Country in south-central Nevada County, California...
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  • Colliery and anonymized it as Red Hill: A Mining Community. U2 wrote a song about the book called Red Hill Mining Town. England portal Energy portal Horden...
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    of the valley, on the west side of Red Hill, is underlain primarily by Permian and Pennsylvanian rocks. Red Hill runs through the center of the valley...
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    Vermilion (redirect from Chinese red)
    Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 192; Color Sample of Chinese Red: Page 29 Plate 3 Color Sample J12 Varichon, Anne (2005)...
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    discovery of gold at Clear Creek, near Redding, California. Just west of Reading's Bar on Clear Creek the mining town of Clear Creek Diggings was formed in...
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