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So, my boy turns 47 today. Holy Crap. And I'm in my 20th year as a hardcore U2 fan. Double-Holy Crap.

There's a segment I've been wanting to implement here at CYPJN? and I guess this is the perfect occasion. It's called "U2ube Video of the Week" and will feature a different U2 performance, interview, vidbit, etc. every week. It's my little way of honoring both the genius of the band and the genius of YouTube itself.

Here is a video of U2's first-ever television performance in March of 1978. It's a very glam delivery of "Street Mission" - an old gem from their earliest demo - replete with an uncharacteristically bland and noodley guitar solo from The Edge. (This was before he met the Memory Man, see.) Brilliant and slightly hysterical...