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(The category is now called best global music album.) The group has won three Grammys for best world music album. Soweto Gospel Choir: The famed choir included a radiant version of the song on the 2008 compilation In the Name of Love: Africa Celebrates U2. The song was featured on Clivilles + Cole’s 1992 compilation Greatest Remixes Vol. The techno club treatment is far removed from Bentley’s front-porch styling, but it shows how a great song can be interpreted in widely divergent ways. In fact, it remained on the chart longer than U2’s original version did - though U2’s version climbed higher. Take a look:Ĭlivilles + Cole: The 1992 cover version by the masterminds of C & C Music Factory also made the Hot 100.

“Pride (In the Name of Love)” has since been covered by a wide range of artists. 1 singles on the Hot 100 and won two Grammys, including album of the year. But it set the stage for the band’s 1987 breakthrough with The Joshua Tree, which spawned back-to-back No.

And neither it nor the album on which it was featured received a Grammy nomination. That said, it’s surprising it didn’t do better than it did, given that it’s considered such a classic today. The song became U2’s first top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. The song has power, passion and purpose - and contains an exceptional lyric (“They took your life/ They could not take your pride”). “Pride (In the Name of Love)” was the lead single from U2’s fourth studio album, The Unforgettable Fire.