Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO), April 16th, 2005
Byline: Mark Brown, Rocky Mountain News
It was 8 p.m. June 5, 1983, and the biggest show in Denver that night was sold out and kicking off.
That sellout was Neil Diamond's pop fest at McNichols Arena, part of his Heartlight tour, with the arena packed with 16,000 fans.
Seventeen miles away at Red Rocks, 4,400 soaked, shivering fans waited through the rain for a 19-song show that would go down as 84 of the most electric minutes in rock history and one of U2's defining moments.
U2 has had many peak moments in Denver - it's not just our collective imagination. The band got a toehold in Amer...
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