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On the Song Exploder podcast, host Hrishikesh Hirway talks to musicians who take apart their songs and, piece by piece, tell the stories of how they were made. Listen below.
10 Cedarwood Road is the address of Bono's childhood home in Dublin. For the U2 song "Cedarwood Road," the band's frontman looked back to his life as a teenager, when skinhead culture seeped into his neighborhood via the Seven Towers housing projects. In this episode, Bono traces the arc from those memories to the lyrics of "Cedarwood Road," and The Edge breaks down the process of writing the song's music.
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