"I Will Follow (live)" - Holland-only 7-inch

U2 COLLECTORS' GUIDE

by Eric Naulaerts

Some history

In 1982 it became obvious that U2 would be one of the top bands of the future. Especially in Holland and Belgium they started to be succesfull. One of the Holland Radio & TV stations (called Veronica) organised concerts on a regular base. On Friday March 14th, 1982 they organised a concert with Dutch band Powerplay and U2 at 't Heem in Hattem (this is the only correct spelling). On friday night the radio station played the concert including an interview with presenter Kees Baars. Six songs of the concert were shown on Dutch television on July 7th, 1982, just after the famous Torhout-Werchter Festival in Belgium (You can hear three tracks from this Werchter concert on the New Year's Day UK 2x7" and the 12").

By now they had conquered the Belgian and Dutch market, so the record company must have tought to release a special single, which is the famous I Will Follow (Live) 7". It was their first single in the charts in Holland (12 on september 9th) and Belgium.

The actual 7"

The front cover is a photo from the Werchter concert, it's one of the first concerts where Bono waves with a flag. Bono took this flag out of the public. It's a white flag with U2 in red letters. The back cover shows three pictures from the Hattem concert. The Live version of I Will Follow is from the Hattem concert. The B-side is the album version of Gloria. The serial number for all pressings is 104.525, but on the Holland pressings, the last 5 is not visible.

4 different pressings

There are four pressings of this 7" single, three from Holland and one reissue from Germany.

	Holland Blue label issue The label is plain blue. This is the rarest.
	Holland regular issue The label is the standard Colored label which is used for almost all Dutch pressings.
	Holland mispress The label is the standard Colored label which is used for almost all Dutch pressings, but the B-side shows Gloria (Live), although it's the album version.
	Germany reissue This one is a reissue. The quality of the sleeve printing is not as good as for the other three pressings. Since the Radio and TV show Countdown is not known in Germany, the back cover doesn't contain the text which appears on the Dutch pressings.

The value of these singles It's always hard to price, as anyone pays the price he wants to. These price tags are the regular prices at the moment in Belgium and Holland. Prices could be higher elsewhere.
Description	Country	Label	Back of picture sleeve	Value
Ultra-rare	Holland	Blue	White lettering on red background strip	70 US$
Regular	Holland	Colored	White lettering on red background strip	20 US$
Misspress B-Side Gloria (Live)	Holland	Colored	White lettering on red background strip	23 US$
Reissue	Germany	Silver	Black strip without lettering, minor quality printing	17 US$

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