Desire (U2 Song)
"Desire" is a song by U2 and the third track on their 1988 album, Rattle and Hum. Released as the album's lead single, "Desire" was the band's first number-one single in the UK and Australia. It reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US, and topped both the Modern and Mainstream Rock Tracks charts, the first song to reach the top of both of these charts simultaneously. It reached number two on the Dutch Top 40. In 1989, "Desire" won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.
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Famous quotes containing the word desire:
“Oh that my soul a marrow-bone might seize!
For the old egg of my desire is broken,”
—Unknown. Sonnet Found in a Deserted Madhouse (l. 1–2)