4/24/2023 0 Comments Marek niedzwiedzki trojka![]() The legendary Radio DJ – Marek Niedzwiecki – often played songs that have never been intended as singles… and there at the end of September 1992 I heard the organ intro to Love Is Blindness… one of the defining moments of my life. The chart positions were not sale related (we didn’t have a proper records market in Poland back then) but voted by fans. Not a radio guy, I started to listen a very famous in Poland – Chart list on National Radio Programme 3 (Trojka). ![]() Queen has some really heavy songs in their catalogue (Dead On Time, Headlong, Prohpet Song etc.) … and thank God for their variety of musical genres as it open my mind and widened my interests. Then (although at my cousins command only after my first communion in church) he introduced me to Slayer… so where is U2 in that?!… in November 1991 Freddie Mercury passed away and – like many - I got interested in Queen music. I used to take cymbals sticks and play Battery and pretend to be Lars Urlich. At the age of 6 I was introduced to heavy metal – Accept, Iron Maiden… but Metallica stole my heart for 2-3 years. How did you become a fan of U2, tell us how it happened?īeing a single child, with my parents rather not very music oriented, I was shaped by my close cousins. For last 11 years I’ve been working in publishing house, with wide array of activities from administration to writing, and call me lucky but I got the job because of U2. And even these days I’m often invited for a raceday to take a microphone and do small live commentary or conduct the rostrum ceremony. My duties included administrative checks of drivers at championship races but also handling the media. Since then, we have had 2 kids (the older already made it to U2’s 2018 show, the younger prevented my wife from seeing Joshua Tree 30 shows).įor living I used to work at the only racetrack in Poland (Tor “Poznań”) and had a chance to meet Michael Schumacher, Marc Gene and of course Robert Kubica in person, but the greatest memory from that job must be the co-drive in Porsche 911 GT3 with Polish driver Teo Myszkowski. At the reception we had our friends rock band to entertain the guests (to the demise of some we even had U2-covers set), and for the first and probably last time ever I stepped in Bono’s shoes to sing All I Want Is You to my beloved wife (and have an utmost respect to singers ever since). Our first weeding dance was soundtracked by When The Stars Go Blue by The Corrs & Bono. I’ve been happily married since the end of 1st Leg of 360 tour. Poznan may not get too many international rock shows but it is really nice midsize town located 2-3 hours drive to those two big cities. I was born in Poznan, Poland right between Berlin and Warsaw and have lived here ever since. But still bit too young to have experienced the shock of U2s transformation from “cowboys” image of JT/RH to AB (that got me with first seeing of Discotheque video). I’m old enough to call myself lucky to have consciously witnessed the 1991 avalanche of probably the greatest rock records ever from Queens Innuendo through Pearl Jams Ten to “ours” U2s Achtung Baby. Tell us something about yourself, who are you and what do you do for a living? My mother and mother in law got to see U2 in Poland live too… so I must have been persuasive." In Berlin 2005 she was close to be picked up for dance with Bono, but he only went for her sunflower and marched with it on stage and gave her back. ![]() ![]() "My wife was not a music person, and thought Bono is a black person, but she had no option but to become a fan. Read along for the interview we had with this U2 fan. Every month we put a U2 fan in the spotlights, the fan of the month June of 2022 is user Zbych.
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