Irish rockers U2 have signed a massive $50 million deal with Polygram for the release of three Best Of albums. The first, The Best of U2—Volume One: 1980-1990, is currently set for a Nov. 2 release on the Island imprint. Daily Variety reports that this first album will be accompanied by a separate CD made […]
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 […]
Read MoreU2 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 […]
Read MoreU2 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 […]
Read MoreU2 in Las Vegas: A Sort Of Homecoming
Within ten years, U2 may very well be the house band at Caesars Palace. And we’ll be glad. By Geoff Carter VEGAS DELUXE Bono has always been one for hiding in plain sight. Scarcely five minutes into the opening of their PopMart world tour, he let U2’s mission statement slip. “Lookin’ for a sound that’s […]
Read MoreWired U2 Fans Link on Tour
By PAOLO PONTONIERE AND KATHLEEN CRAUGHWELLAPRIL 28, 1997 12 AM As U2 fans from around the world descended on this town Saturday for the kickoff of the Irish band’s massive PopMart tour, it became clear that the Internet is taking on yet another role these days–that of party organizer. For months, wired U2 fans from all over […]
Read MoreU2: 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’s new ‘POP’ culture
(CNN) – “Listen, I’ll talk to Jesus. I’ll talk to the lady at the check-out there at Kmart. I’ll talk to anyone.” So says Bono, the never-shy lead singer of rock group U2. And if there’s one thing that stays constant with the band, it’s that Bono will indeed talk. But there’s not much else that […]
Read MoreU2 Announces U.S. POP-Mart Tour Dates
U2 held a press conference Wednesday morning in the lingerie section of a Kmart in New York’s Greenwich Village to announce their U.S. tour in support of their new album, Pop. The gathering was broadcast live on MTV and the Internet with the use of Real Video, a technological goody that came out on Monday. Bono […]
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