Lil Wayne invades Billboard’s Hot Rap Songs chart this week with tunes from his new album, Tha Carter VI. The hip-hop superstar is no stranger to appearing on the tally, which ranks the most consumed rap tracks throughout the United States — especially whenever fans flock to one project or another all at once. Wayne […]
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Bono has given what he has insisted will be the last interview on the promotional cycle for his memoir Surrender and its spin-off Apple TV film Stories Of Surrender. It’s a wide-ranging conversation with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe during which the singer touches on his heart surgery, family and faith. He also talked about how […]
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Bono has released his new EP, ‘Stories of Surrender Live’, which coincides with the Apple Original Films documentary Bono: Stories of Surrender. This special edition release includes three live renditions of classic U2 songs: “Desire” from the 1988 album Rattle and Hum, “The Showman” off 2017’s Songs of Experience, and “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” originally featured […]
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(Note: Links are in bold text.) The annual A Very U2 Christmas series was born out of an interest in curating all things U2 for the holiday season — mostly, their Christmas and winter-inspired songs. But over time, it’s evolved into a “where U2 has been this Christmas/year’s end” project. Unfortunately, there’s one problem with […]
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The U2 front man has just published Surrender: 40 Songs. One Story in which he uses forty U2 tracks to tell his story and the story of the band. Appearing on RTÉ Radio 1’s The Brendan O’Connor Show, he was asked by the host if his decision to write the book was based on a […]
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Grief and God have been part of U2’s story from the start. We got this invitation once,” Bono tells me. He speaks the next sentence with a tone of reverence: “The Reverend Billy Graham would love to meet the band and offer a blessing.” We’re on a video call, and the frontman for U2 is […]
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New York City’s historic Beacon Theater, with its stunning interiors and magnificent chandelier, is a long way from the punk clubs where Irish rockers U2 cut their teeth in the late ’70s. But the group’s lead singer, Bono, was able to conjure the band’s early days in vibrant detail with just tables, chairs, monitors displaying […]
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As you no doubt know Bono’s book, Surrender has been released this week and it is a fascinating tome. To mark the publication, Hotpress has dug into the archives and found a marvellous pic of the man himself, sporting a Hot Press Readers’ Poll ‘Kiss Me Quick’ Award from 1980 – which fits perfectly on […]
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Bono acknowledges his role in the controversial Songs of Innocence release in his upcoming memoir Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story. Before you could stream your favorite album at will on the likes of Spotify or Apple Music, there was iTunes. In an experimental release strategy, U2’s Songs of Innocence was uploaded to the iTunes libraries […]
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Bono received death threats after incurring the wrath of the IRA, the American far right, and Dublin gangsters. The U2 frontman admitted his pro-peace stance has caused him difficulties over the years and left not only him as a target but his wife Ali Hewson and their four children, Jordan, 33, Eve, 31, Elijah, 23, […]
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