There were only about 160 lucky U2 fans able to spend “An Evening With Four5One” last month during the U2 Fan Celebration at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland. As you must know by now, it was a great night for all of us inside the theater who were able […]
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U2’s Bono to Meet Pope
(WALL OF SOUND) U2 frontman Bono, as part of a delegation from Jubilee 2000, met the Pope on Thursday (Sept. 23). The group asked the pontiff to give his blessing and support to the Jubilee 2000 project, which hopes to convince developed nations to forgive all third-world debt. “The delegation will call upon world leaders, […]
Read MoreU2’s The Edge Speaks
With the album U2: The Best of 1980-1990 hitting shelves soon (a limited edition containing a bonus CD quietly hit shelves Tuesday, with the official version coming out Nov. 10), U2 guitarist The Edge granted an interview to the Los Angeles Times, discussing the new album the band currently has in the works with producers Brian Eno and […]
Read MoreU2’s Sarajevo Concert Raises Almost No Money
U2’s September foray to the war-torn city of Sarajevo has been called a humanitarian mission. It can’t be called much else, because the enormous concert raised next to no money for the former Yugoslavia. According to a French newswire, after expenses, the Irish rockers managed to raise a mere $13,500 to help residents recover from […]
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U2 Rocks Sarajevo
It was the fulfillment of a promise made two years ago. Back in 1995, Bono visited Sarajevo just weeks after the Bosnian war ended, and pledged to return with the band. Tuesday night at Kosevo stadium, he kept his word. An estimated 50,000 people from all over the war-ravaged country paid $18–with all profits going […]
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U2 Launches Microsoft Web Site
MSN (the Microsoft Network) and U2 have announced the launch of the Irish band’s first official Web site, http://www.U2popmart.msn.com. The site will bow this Friday with “Pop Invasion,” a live one-hour Webcast where U2 fans can hear a live interview with the band while viewing digital photos. The continuously updated site, which is produced by […]
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U2: A Year in Pop
HOLLYWOOD (Variety)–ABC joins U2’s project mesh with a low-key infomercial to launch PopMart, the Irish band’s world tour that kicks off Friday in Las Vegas. The bulk of the show is essentially a study of the premise that U2 rose to the top of the rock world and, in the nineties, has effectively reinvented itself […]
Read More“Happiness Is a Warm Gun” for U2 and ABC
If the distinguished directors and cast involved in the new ABC series Gun aren’t reason enough to get you to tune in, well, here’s another one–U2. That’s right, Bono and the boys have recorded a new version of the Beatles’ “Happiness Is a Warm Gun” as the theme song of the new series, which debuts […]
Read MoreU2 Explains Its New Sound
Pop, U2’s long-awaited next album–and the band’s first in almost four years–guarantees a new sound. Lead singer and songwriter Bono, his trademark long hair now closely shorn, reveals to the L.A. Times that the album is actually a melding of two distinct musical directions. “We liked the tendency in England toward pop songwriting in the [traditional] way […]
Read MoreA mayoral rebuke for U2 star
(San Francisco) — Lead singer Bono Hewson of the U2 rock band raised the hackles of the mayor of San Francisco by leaping onto a huge modern sculpture and spraying the graffito, ”Stop the traffic, rock n’ roll.” The apparent act of exuberance by the rock star during an impromptu outdoor concert by the Irish […]
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