"When Love Comes to Town" is a song by Irish rock band U2 featuring American blues guitarist B.B.
On the extended "Live from the Kingdom Mix", Little Richard is featured preaching, rapping in funky rhyme style, and singing background vocals amid Maceo Parker's saxophone playing.
During the Lovetown Tour concerts, this song would be played, usually along with "Angel of Harlem" and "Love Rescue Me", in an encore featuring B.B.
King to play the song for the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Founders Award.
[6] After King died on 14 May 2015, U2 paid tribute to him during a show in Vancouver the following night during the Innocence + Experience Tour by playing "When Love Comes to Town" for the first time in 23 years.
[8] The song was played at a promotional appearance at the Apollo Theater in New York during the Experience + Innocence Tour.