If you know the album, added Bono, you'll see the themes in the visual language, how 'holding on to your own innocence is a lot harder than holding on to someone else's.' The shoot with Larry and his son was initially an experiment but everyone loved it as a visual metaphor for the record. The idea of the unique relationship between a parent and child, the image of a father and son, came from the band. With this record we were looking for the raw, naked and personal, to strip everything back.' 'Songs Of Innocence is the most intimate album we've ever made. 'We've always been about community in U2, about family and friends,' explained Bono. Both featured the face of a child, Peter Rowen, the younger brother of Guggi, Bono's childhood friend growing up on Cedarwood Road. The image resonated with the band's iconic 1980 debut album Boy and, three years later, the War album. The striking cover art of the physical releases, a photo by Glen Luchford, features Larry Mullen Jr protecting his 18 year old son. The first studio album from the band since 2009, Songs Of Innocence was released on CD & Vinyl on October 13th 2014, just over a month after the groundbreaking digital release when Apple delivered the album free to more than half a billion people with iTunes accounts.
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