There are several “legendary” pieces of music from U2 that we fans might never get to hear, no matter how long we wait, whether patiently or impatiently, or what we might do. I’m thinking of things like the very early song “Concentration Cramp,” the complete soundtrack that Bono and Edge wrote for that stage production […]
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U2 has recorded a handful of instrumentals over the years–mostly, but not exclusively, in the early years. Today’s topic is very nearly one of those instrumental tracks, but for a very few lines of singing. That’s enough by itself to make this song noteworthy in U2’s catalog. What makes it special, though, and almost entirely […]
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Today, Billboard released its list of the highest paid musicians of 2017, which yielded results both surprising and unsurprising. You can decide which of those adjectives applies to the following fact: only 7 of the 50 are women. Lady Gaga was the sole female artist to make it into the Top 10 (#6). Taylor Swift–somewhat […]
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I’ve written in the past about U2’s relationship with Patti Smith, but I barely scratched the surface of this particular song in that article. It seemed like the appropriate time to give U2’s cover of “Dancing Barefoot” a platform all to itself, since it was a B-side from the Rattle and Hum album that’s celebrating […]
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I’ve been bouncing around for the past few weeks…moving between Zooropa, Rattle and Hum, and War, all of which are celebrating noteworthy anniversaries this year. Today, I’m focusing once again on Rattle and Hum, or rather one of its B-sides. From the Angel of Harlem single, it’s “A Room at the Heartbreak Hotel.”
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UNCASVILLE, Conn. — What better way to celebrate American independence than with an Irish band on Native American sovereign ground. U2 closed out its North American “Songs of Experience + Innocence” tour with a two-hour performance at Mohegan Sun Arena on Tuesday night. Even with the little ironies of time and circumstance, the celebration made […]
Read MoreSetlist: Love Is All We Have Left The Blackout Lights of Home I Will Follow Gloria – Gloria (Van Morrison) Beautiful Day The Ocean Iris (Hold Me Close) Cedarwood Road Sunday Bloody Sunday – Johnny Was Until the End of the World Intermission (Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me) Elevation Vertigo – It’s […]
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A few years ago, when U2 was in the middle of a program of remastering and re-releasing several of their early albums, I really got a kick out of the songs that were left-over from the from the sessions of the album in question. On several such tracks, the band took an existing musical track, […]
Read MoreSetlist: Love Is All We Have Left The Blackout Lights of Home I Will Follow All Because of You Beautiful Day The Ocean Iris (Hold Me Close) Cedarwood Road Sunday Bloody Sunday – Johnny Was – When Johnny Comes Marching Home Until the End of the World Intermission (Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill […]
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ROCK supergroup U2 are to build their own exhibition centre in Dublin, set to become one of Ireland’s top tourist attractions. It will house and display a range of U2 memorabilia never-before-seen and spanning the Irish quartet’s four decades in music on the international scene. The new three-storey complex at No 15-18 Hanover Quay, described […]
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