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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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 MoreIf 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 MorePop, 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 More(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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