Since today is Christmas Eve, (it’ll be Christmas day when you read these words) I decided that I should probably take a break from my ongoing series of reviews of the songs from U2’s latest album, Songs of Experience, and focus instead on something that was appropriate to the holiday.
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Songs Of Experience, out Friday On stage, U2 are as big as ever. The Joshua Tree tour in the summer was short by their standards, whizzing through the sports grounds of the western world, yet it still ended up as the 12th most lucrative tour of all time – a chart topped by their own […]
Read MoreOn this day in 1960, our favorite lead singer was born. Happy birthday, Paul David Hewson
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This week, I’m temporarily setting aside my ongoing series on Joshua Tree related songs to talk about another recent release, U2’s collaboration with West Coast rapper Kendrick Lamar, a song titled “XXX”.
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Since the announcement of U2’s Joshua Tree Tour 2017, I’ve been making an attempt to write these articles about songs that are related to The Joshua Tree, even if they didn’t make the final album. One such song is the topic of this week’s article, a B-side from the “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m […]
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As I sit down in front of my computer to write this, it is Christmas Day, 2016. Of course, I felt compelled to write about something Christmas-y, but there actually isn’t that much holiday music in U2’s catalog. I’ve already written about the two Christmas songs that U2 has recorded as a band, and last […]
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Well, it’s that time of year once again. As you read this, Christmas day will be less than a week away, so I thought that I ought to do something to commemorate the occasion. Since I wrote about U2’s pair of Christmas songs a couple of years ago (see here), this year seemed like a […]
Read MoreI have a confession to make. A confession possibly worthy of those cool ZooTV video confessional things. …Okay, maybe that’s an exaggeration, but it’s still a confession. Are you ready? If not, I’ll wait. Ready now? Okay, let’s do this! Here it goes: I’m a huge fan of professional wrestling. Was that what you were […]
Read MoreBono revealed to the Spanish fan group ‘U2 en Espana’ that a new album and tour are in the works. “It’s [the new record] not finished yet but you will like it. In terms of lyrics it is stronger than WAR, it has more clarity,” Bono said. “The second part of the tour is for […]
Read MoreU2 rock star Bono had to be rescued by armed police after being caught up in the Bastille Day Nice massacre, it emerged today. The 56-year-old singer was on the terrace of La Petite Maison, next to the seafront in the French city when mass murderer Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel struck. After Bouhlel drove a hired […]
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