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“Miracle Drug” is the second track from U2’s 2004 album, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. It was written about the late Irish writer Christopher Nolan, with whom the band attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School. Bono said of Nolan:

“ We all went to the same school and just as we were leaving, a fellow called Christopher Nolan arrived. He had been deprived of oxygen for two hours when he was born, so he was paraplegic. But his mother believed he could understand what was going on and used to teach him at home. Eventually, they discovered a drug that allowed him to move one muscle in his neck. So they attached this unicorn device to his forehead and he learned to type. And out of him came all these poems that he’d been storing up in his head. Then he put out a collection called Dam-Burst of Dreams, which won a load of awards and he went off to university and became a genius. All because of a mother’s love and a medical breakthrough. ”
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  • NLC_yahoo_girl

    Bono's Voice is a Miracle Drug... [2] :)

    March 2012
  • Toshiki-A

    "I wanna trip inside your head, spend a day there" I remember film "Being John Malkovich"

    February 2012
  • crocy2

    Bono's Voice is a Miracle Drug...

    December 2011
  • zhch1987

    touching

    December 2011
  • Gabrieltheradio

    "I want to trip inside your head, spend a day there...."

    September 2011
  • blackhunter1212

    awesome! ___ The songs are in your eyes I see them when you smile I’ve had enough of romantic love I’d give it up, yeah, I’d give it up For a miracle, a miracle drug, a miracle drug

    August 2011
  • DiogoMelo

    Aí é musicão!!! U2 minha droga milagrosa. [3]

    July 2011
  • coryanne

    stimmt jeder hat sein wunderen medicament... mein?? hummmmmmm geheimnis!!

    July 2011
  • gmusicmaker

    Heard them play this live 5 years ago. Maajic. Would love to see them play live again.

    February 2011
  • lucy304

    ;)

    January 2011
  • cassie_blftd

    <3

    January 2011
  • xtekinhax

    Aí é musicão!!! U2 minha droga milagrosa. [2]

    September 2010
  • live4ever89

    Great song.

    September 2010
  • Danger-ahead

    I will give it all for miracle drug...

    September 2010
  • Tiago_Freitas

    Aí é musicão!!! U2 minha droga milagrosa.

    September 2010
  • cardroia

    Written about the irish poet and author Christopher Nolan who died last year. absolutely amazing song about an amazing person with an amazing family. I recommend to everyone to read his autobiography "Under the eye of the clock" . ...One of those songs where Inspiration is truly a Miracle Drug

    July 2010
  • peanuthead94

    It's so heartbreaking how beauties like this are totally & completely overshadowed by Vetigo & All Because of You. Errrr.

    July 2010
  • peanuthead94

    Should have been a single.

    July 2010
  • peanuthead94

    Wow. I loooove this song. It's beautiful. It makes up for the atrocity of Vertigo that preceded it.

    July 2010
  • LightsOfBohemia

    Oh my God.

    June 2010
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