U2 have never really been shy about their Christian faith. From their early days when they nearly eschewed rock’n’roll fame to devote themselves to full time Christian ministry they were always going to stand out from the pack. Indeed their sophomore effort ‘October’ is as close as any mainstream rock act will ever get to a full on worship album.

 

Nearly 40 years and 14 studio albums later U2 are one of the best selling music artists in history having sold 170 million records worldwide. They’ve won 22 Grammy Awards, more than any other band, and in 2005, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility.

 

Yet through it all U2 have maintained their faith and their Christianity still pours out of every album (check out ‘Lights Of Home’ on their latest offering ‘Songs Of Experience’).

 

So with that in mind and with this month being our 1 Year Anniversary here at 33&1/3 we thought we’d do something a bit different and play what we consider to be the Top 10 spiritual songs by the Irish foursome.

 

Ben and Alex will count you down from 10 to the number 1 song over a special extended show of 90 minutes.

 

During that time we hear from Bono as he speaks on faith, hope, love, grace, the church and who Jesus is to him. We also hear from long time U2 producer Brian Eno on what magic happened in the studio to create one of the bands most memorable songs.

 

So start predicting, pick your own top 10 U2 faith fuelled songs and see how you go as our 1 Year Anniversary Special, ‘The Church of U2’ is sure to entertain, enlighten and ultimately surprise you.