Inductees: Bono (vocals; born May 10, 1960), The Edge (guitar; born August 8, 1961), Adam Clayton (bass; born March 13, 1960), Larry Mullen Jr. (drums; born October 31, 1961)
From the beginning, U2 has been a band on a mission. With each album and concert, the Irish quartet has endeavored to create music of lasting worth and substance. At various points in their career U2 have been not only the most popular band in the world but also arguably the most important - although success in their own minds is purely conditional on the caliber of their work. “We had no interest in being the biggest if we weren’t the best,” guitarist Dave “The Edge” Evans told Rolling Stone in 2004. “That’s the only way being the biggest would mean anything.”
U2’s best work - which includes War (1983), The Joshua Tree (1987), Achtung Baby (1991) and All That You Can’t Leave Behind (2000) - stand out as true classics in the rock canon. Bono’s high-profile work for causes like Third World debt relief and U2’s participation in such historic rock-for-charity events as Live Aid and Amnesty International’s Conspiracy of Hope tour in have made them something of a beacon for positive change in the world of music.
Ultimately, what’s set U2 apart is the visionary passion of vocalist Paul “Bono” Hewson and the group’s music, which mixes rock’s visceral energy with artful atmospherics. U2 has been hugely popular in its first quarter century, yet they’ve remained a supergroup with an idealistic sense of purpose. Having risen to prominence in the early Eighties - a time when the iconic status of rock stars was routinely challenged by skeptical punks and New Wavers - U2 managed to become a stadium-filling phenomenon without sacrificing credibility.
Moreover, they’ve been given to periodic reinvention, as evidenced by their passage from the politically themed anthems of War to the more ethereal musical landscapes of The Unforgettable Fire (1985), and from the earnest soul-searching of The Joshua Tree to its radical and irreverent successor, Achtung Baby. Underneath it all, they’re remained true believers. As Bono told USA Today in 2000, “There is a transcendence that I want from rock… I’m still drunk on the idea that rock and roll can be a force for change. We haven’t lost that idea.”
That idea has been a motivating force from the outset. U2 formed in 1978 when drummer Larry Mullen posted a note on a bulletin board looking to form a band. The group members - Bono, The Edge, Mullen and bassist Adam Clayton - attended Mount Temple High School in Dublin, Ireland. They derived influence from the guitar-driven minimalism and do-it-yourself aesthetic of such punk-rock peers as the Ramones and Sex Pistols. Yet they also aspired to the more serious, message-laden music of songwriters like Pete Townshend and Bruce Springsteen. Early in 1981, with its debut album only months old, Bono confidently predicted a place for U2 in rock’s upper echelon. “Even at this stage, I do feel we are meant to be one of the great bands,” he told Rolling Stone in 1981. “There’s a certain spark, a certain chemistry, that was special about the Stones, the Who and the Beatles, and I think it’s also special about U2.”
They debuted with a three-song EP, U2-3, in 1979 and built a word-of-mouth following in their Irish homeland as a live band, U2 signed with Island Records in 1980. Their debut album, Boy, included the popular track “I Will Follow,” the first of many U2 anthems. The basic elements of the U2 sound - The Edge’s jittery, effects-laden guitar; Bono’s soaring, unrestrained vocals; Clayton’s solid, anthemic bass lines; and Mullen’s offbeat, hypnotic drums - were already in place at this early juncture. Boy was produced by Steve Lillywhite, who would help shape the group’s unique sound on the next two albums as well. Experimental twists would become part of U2’s modus operandi, but that core structure has remained their sonic signature.
U2’s moody second album, October, reflected the difficulty of reconciling their religious beliefs with their rising fortunes as rock stars. They even considered disbanding. In the end, U2 decided to put their collective voice to use raising consciousness. On War they focused their energy and honed their message, raging over the strife-torn modern world - specifically, the sectarian strife in their native Ireland - in such testaments as “Sunday Bloody Sunday” and “New Year’s Day.” War has been termed “a powerful fusion of politics and militant rock and roll” and even the band called it “a positive protest record.” Bono referred to “Sunday Bloody Sunday” as “a song of hope and a song of disgust,” and Mullen noted it was “the first time we ever really made a statement.”
With this album, U2 vaulted into a class with the impassioned, topical likes of the Clash and Bruce Springsteen. “Sunday Bloody Sunday” gave U2 their first #1 hit in the U.K., and the album entered the U.K. charts at #1, appropriately enough, on St. Patrick’s Day. War reached #12 in the U.S. and was their first album to go platinum.
U2 followed War with Under a Blood Red Sky, a live album recorded in Colorado, Boston and Germany. Between Bono’s onstage fervor and the band’s rousing majesty, U2 built up a monumental head of steam as a live act. Bono would wave a large white flag - symbolizing a flag “drained of all color” - during their show, symbolizing the “one world” concept he believed in and advocated. Under a Blood Red Sky, released as an album and video, consolidated U2’s strengths and closed a chapter on the remarkable first stage of their career.
Their fourth studio album, The Unforgettable Fire (1984), saw U2 move toward a more ghostly, cinematic sound. The group selected Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois as producers, and the results were more abstract and experimental than previous albums. The key track was “Pride (In the Name of Love),” a pacifistic anthem inspired by the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. U2 toured heavily in its wake, headlining arenas and stadiums and performing one of the most memorable sets at Live Aid in July 1985.
In March 1987, U2 released The Joshua Tree, an album that captivated, inspired and united the rock and roll audience like no other (save Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the U.S.A.) in the Eighties. Both thoughtful and powerful, it was preoccupied with spiritual survival in a barren, conflict-ridden age. Giving rise to a pair of #1 singles - “With or Without You” and “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” - The Joshua Tree topped the charts for nine weeks. It went on to win a Grammy for Album of the Year, and Rolling Stone judged it the third best album of the Eighties. The Joshua Tree has sold more than 15 million copies worldwide and in 1995 qualified for diamond certification (10 million sold) in the U.S.
The accompanying world tour gave rise to Rattle and Hum, a concert film and double album that mixed live and studio material. Among other things, the project revealed the group’s fondness for American roots music, as when they collaborated with blues guitarist B.B. King on “When Love Comes to Town.” Drafting on The Joshua Tree’s formidable coattails, Rattle and Hum also went to #1 (for six weeks) and spun off a pair of hit singles, “Desire” and “Angel of Harlem.”
The Joshua Tree elevated U2 to superstar status but also provoked one of the most radical musical detours by a major rock band. At the end of the decade, Bono stated that U2 planned to “go away and dream it all up again.” True to his word, U2 came together in Berlin in late 1990 to record Achtung Baby, a brazenly experimental about-face that Bono has described as “the sound of us chopping down The Joshua Tree.” Triggering a creative renaissance, it marked U2’s effort to undercut its own sense of seriousness and joint the postmodern party. To a degree, they deliberately went from iconic to ironic (although “One” ranks with their most heartfelt songs). Coproducer Brian Eno referred to “the scope of its inspirations: psychedelia, glam, R&B and soul” and characterized it as “a long step taken with confidence.”
Recorded in Berlin, Achtung Baby sold more than 10 million copies worldwide and set U2 on a course for the Nineties. It and the discs that followed - Zooropa (1993) and Pop (1997) - form a kind of triptych. The group embraced the messy state of the war-torn, media-saturated world with a grim sense of celebration, as Bono created a handful of devilish alter egos - including “The Fly” and “Mr. MacPhisto, the Last Rock Star” - for the stage. Zooropa, an adjunct and coda to Achtung Baby, was recorded in Dublin during a break between legs of the Zoo TV tour.
On Pop, U2 delved into electronica - loops, samples, beats - without reservation. Some of that album’s material actually got worked up from jamming with DJs. Pop was the group’s most cutting-edge album to date. U2 were no longer “the world’s loudest folk band,” which is how Bono described the group’s Eighties persona in hindsight. Instead of mourning the ruins, they were now dancing in them.
In the Nineties, U2’s live shows served as oversized spectacles. Their Zoo TV and PopMart tours were among the most ambitious ever undertaken. They played to more than five million people on the former outing alone. PopMart, which followed Pop’s release, satirized rampant consumerism with a set designed to look like a “giant, sci-fi disco supermarket.” A hundred-foot high golden arch, fifteen-foot mirror-ball lemon and twelve-foot stuffed olive were among the oversized stage props. The group and its 200-member crew dragged 1,200 tons of equipment from gig to gig. It was truly over the top, which was exactly the point. If Zoo TV was “the Sgt. Pepper of rock tours,” than PopMart was its gaudy Graceland.
Not surprisingly, after spending most of a decade making their point - which might be described as "defeating the devil by singing his song” - U2 got back to basics. Their first album of the new millennium, All That You Can’t Leave Behind (2001), was a return to the classic U2 sound, warm and open-hearted in a way that recalled The Joshua Tree while at the same time streaked with the sort of textures and accents they’d mastered in their adventuresome Nineties spree. All That You Can’t Leave Behind topped the charts in 32 countries and won seven Grammys, including Song of the Year for “Beautiful Day.”
Late in 2004 they continued on this path with How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, which yielded the heady hit “Vertigo” and contained some of Bono’s most personal lyrics. In a sense, the album brought U2 full circle, returning them to the autobiography of Boy. Yet in the years between those albums they’d grown from teenagers to adults, inevitably losing friends and relatives along the way. Bono suggested that How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb album could have well been titled Man.
While much had changed, important things remained the same: U2 comprised the same four musicians, still holding fast to principles and making inspirational music a quarter century after their humble beginnings in a Dublin high school.
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I actually feel better that it was just last year, and I did not know it.......I still wish that they or the record company would re-master the first four albums.....at least.
All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
When it comes to fighting world poverty, Bono and his wife Ali Hewson
make quite a team. The pair were in London this week to promote their
fashion label's ONE t-shirts, profits of which will go to workers in
the African country of Lesotho.
The philanthropic U2 frontman, real name Paul David Hewson, was the
picture of pride as he wrapped his arms around Ali who was hosting the
launch party in exclusive department store Harvey Nichols. And the pair
were in no shortage of homegrown and international celebrities to help
highlight their cause.
Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams were among the A-listers who had
modelled the t-shirts for a series of black and white photos, while Sex
And The City's Kim Cattrall joined former 007 heart-throb Pierce
Brosnan and actress Patsy Kensit for Wednesday's star-studded soiree.
The black and white t-shirts are made by Edun – the socially conscious
clothing brand created by Ali, her rocker husband and New York designer
Rogan Gregory – as part of the Make Poverty History campaign. They cost
£28, £7 of which will go to the Apparel Lesotho Alliance To Fight Aids
to provide education and medicines for factory workers and their
families.
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"Windows On The Sky" will be the second single on U2's upcoming U2 18
Singles compilation which is due out next month. Confirmation comes
from a promotional one-sheet which can be seen on U2Achtung.com. (use
the link below) These promo sheets are sent out to record and retail
stores to help the stores plan their order and promotional efforts for
the release. The one-sheet also indicates that a video for "Window On
The Sky" will be released later this month.
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SNEAK PEEK: 'THE SAINTS ARE COMING'
October 23, 2006
Thanks to our friends at U2tour.de for pointing out two brief (one
minute) clips of the music video for "The Saints Are Coming" on
U2.com. You can watch in either Quicktime or Windows Media.
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ONE: The Campaign to Make Poverty History, is launching a new PSA to
ask millions of American voters to help fight global AIDS and extreme
poverty.
The spot features Matt Damon (who also narrates), Julia Roberts,
George Clooney, Don Cheadle, New England Patriots Quarterback Tom
Brady, singer songwriter Toby Keith, Alfre Woodard, faith leaders
Pastor Rick Warren and Bishop Charles E. Blake and Democratic and
Republican Strategists Mike McCurry and Jack Oliver.
"This is a first step in a long-term effort to start making the fight
against global AIDS and extreme poverty part of the election
conversation and Americans can be part of that by joining ONE.ORG,"
Damon says.
The ONE campaign is a growing grassroots movement of over 2.4 million
people and 90 of the nation's leading relief, humanitarian and
advocacy organizations (including DATA, CARE, Bread for the World,
International Rescue Committee, Save the Children and Oxfam America)
working together to fight the global emergency of AIDS and extreme
poverty.
This new ONE PSA premieres all across the Internet today including
AOL.com and AOL Video, running through November 6.
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No vertigo as U2 high rise plan is refused
October 27, 2006
ROCK group U2's apartment development seems unlikely to contribute to
an outbreak of vertigo.
Dublin City Council has dashed their dream of three 10 storey blocks
worth €36m near the Ferryman pub at Sir John Rogerson's Quay in
Dublin's south docklands.
This is their own property and is not to be confused with the 35 storey
tower, on the top of which they will have a new recording studio, that
is being developed by the Dublin Docklands Development Authority at
Britain Quay on Grand Canal Harbour. U2's own project, was to consist
of three 10 storey blocks.
Despite being only a third of the height of the U2 Tower, the council
felt that U2's own development would be "visually obtrusive in the
skyline location and would read as an excessively bulky, squat and
visually inelegant response to the development of the site. The
council's planners also felt that it would have a "significant negative
impact on the amenity of potential residential occupiers and of
adjoining properties."
With views directly onto the River Liffey the cheapest two-bedroom
apartments could have been expected to sell for over €500,000 while the
three-bedroom penthouses could fetch well over €1m.
Now the rock band could well decide to follow the route of an
increasing number of developers and appeal the refusal to Bord
Pleanala. On average the Bord gives the green light for as many as one
in four appeals made by applicants who are refused by their local
planners.
Donal Buckley
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Bono and the Edge: Off the Record, Preview of New Series Hosted by Dave
Stewart, Debuts Nov. 24, Exclusively on HBO
Thursday October 26, 1:58 p.m. ET
Show to Feature Top Music Stars Telling Their Stories in Intimate
Conversations
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- HBO viewers can get a preview of
the new late-night series hosted by Dave Stewart next month when BONO
AND THE EDGE: OFF THE RECORD, spotlighting the singer and guitarist
from U2, debuts FRIDAY, NOV. 24 (11:00 p.m.-midnight ET/PT). Featuring
top music stars from a wide range of genres in intimate conversations,
the show will reveal the stories behind their songs. The series will
kick off its regular run in January.
Other HBO playdates: Dec. 5 (9:00 p.m.) and 18 (10:15 p.m.).
HBO2 playdates: Nov. 26 (11:30 p.m.) and 29 (10:30 p.m.), and Dec. 9
(4:00 p.m.) and 13 (7:00 p.m.).
Each edition of the new series will be shot before an audience of
fellow musicians and fans, and spotlight performers from the worlds of
rap, rock, soul, folk, punk, country and blues. Artists will be able to
tell their stories in an uncensored environment, citing the songs and
performers who influenced them on their journey, as well as breaking
down their own songs, while drawing on music videos, concert footage
and even home movies.
Host Dave Stewart is one-half of Eurythmics, along with Annie Lennox;
the duo's hits include "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)," "Here Comes
the Rain Again" and "Would I Lie to You?" In addition to writing
numerous songs with Lennox, he has also written with Mick Jagger, Bono,
Sinead O'Connor, Bryan Ferry and Jon Bon Jovi, among others. Stewart's
producing credits include Jon Bon Jovi, Bob Dylan, Eurythmics, Aretha
Franklin, Mick Jagger, Tom Petty and Ramones. As a performer, his
latest project is the band Platinum Weird.
One of the show's executive producers is Jimmy Iovine, who is chairman
of Interscope Geffen A&M Records; among the company's artists are Dr.
Dre, Gwen Stefani, U2, Eminem, Sting, Beck, 50 Cent, No Doubt, Mary J.
Blige, Sheryl Crow and the Black Eyed Peas. As a producer, Iovine's
credits include hit albums by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, U2,
Eurythmics, the Pretenders, Stevie Nicks, Bob Seger and Patti Smith.
Executive producer Howard Klein is an executive producer of "The
Office" and was an executive producer of HBO's "Carnivale." Executive
producer Jonathan Prince was the creator and an executive producer of
the series "American Dreams."
The executive producers of BONO AND THE EDGE: OFF THE RECORD are Jimmy
Iovine, Gene Kirkwood, Howard Klein, Jonathan Prince and Dave Stewart;
co-executive producers, Polly Anthony and Mark Farrell.
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Our friends at U2tour.de have done a little investigation and digging
into the current "Hunt the Lyrics" game that U2.com is sponsoring, and
based on the lyrics being used in the game, they believe the tracklist
for U2 18 Singles will be:
1. Beautiful Day
2. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
3. Pride
4. With Or Without You
5. Vertigo
6. New Year's Day
7. Mysterious Ways
8. Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
9. Where The Streets Have No Name
10. Sweetest Thing
11. Sunday Bloody Sunday
12. One
13. Desire
14. Walk On
15. Elevation
16. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
17. The Saints Are Coming
18. Window On The Sky
It's important to note that this is not official, just an educated
guess at this point. Meanwhile, UK retailer CD WOW has this partial
track listing posted, which has one song not on the above list -- "I
Will Follow."
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Construction of the Vertigo Tour outdoor stage is underway at the
Queensland Sports & Athletics Centre in Brisbane, and the Vertigo Tour
restart is just days away. Thanks to Australian fan Damien Taylor for
the photo -- you can see larger versions of this and another on the
Australian U2 News log.
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Mysterious ways: U2 in 3-D concert film
October 31, 2006
By Gregg Goldstein
ORLANDO -- U2's Vertigo Tour may soon create a real sense of vertigo
among moviegoers as the band is planning to release its first 3-D
concert film next year.
The untitled feature is being directed by Catherine Owens and Mark
Pellington. In conjunction with the film's anticipated mid- to
late-2007 debut, U2 also might take part in the first live 3-D
performance projected in theaters nationwide.
For the film, Owens and Pellington shot more than 700 hours of
footage with the band in seven South American cities during February
and March. Trekking across Argentina, Mexico, Chile and Brazil, the
film's 3-D director of photography Peter Anderson ("T2 3-D: Battle
Across Time") used nine pairs of Sony Cinealta 950 cameras to capture
the band with swooping camera angles and kaleidoscopic imagery. The
director of cinematography for the film's 2-D footage is Tom Krueger.
3ality Digital Entertainment, the project's producer, put together of
the largest assemblages of 3-D camera technology ever used for a
single project. A representative for the band called it "the first-
ever 3-D multicamera live shoot."
The feature is being edited in New York by Olivier Wiki and readied
for a summer or fall release. Discussions are under way with several
major studio distributors. It is expected that the film screen
nationwide using the Real D technology in place by theaters screening
the digital 3-D release of "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before
Christmas."
Real D unveiled the first theatrically projected live 3-D event last
week at ShowEast in Orlando. It is planning a live 3-D concert
presentation next fall, and sources said it might be a U2 concert.
Owens has been the creative director of screen visuals for U2 on
several of the band's world tours. Feature director Pellington
("Arlington Road," "The Mothman Prophecies") began his career by
directing U2's "One" video.
The soundtrack is produced by Carl Glanville, who also produced the
concert DVD "Vertigo 2005/U2 Live From Chicago." Wiki edited the U2
video "Original of the Species," which was nominated for two MTV
Video Music Awards.
Executives at 3ality declined comment.
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U2 started rehearsals today for their latest Australian tour as details
about the super group's new greatest hits album were revealed.
The Irish band, who arrived in Australia yesterday to continue the
postponed Vertigo tour, this month release their third compilation
album.
U218 Singles spans the band's recording career from their 1980 debut
album Boy to 2004's How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb.
The singles offering includes two new tracks, a cover of The Skids' The
Saints Are Coming with American group Green Day and another new track,
Window In The Skies.
Both were recorded at London's legendary Abbey Road studios with Red
Hot Chilli Peppers producer Rick Rubin.
The British and Australian versions of U218 Singles will have a bonus
track of the band's first hit I Will Follow.
The latest compilation will be released on November 18, while a new
album is expected next year.
The Vertigo tour was halted in March to allow guitarist The Edge to be
with a family member battling serious illness.
U2 have resumed their Australian tour at a Gold Coast base and they
today greeted enthusiastic fans outside the Palazzo Versace Hotel.
"The world needs more Australia's man - that's our big message," said
frontman Bono.
They travelled by helicopter to Brisbane to check out the Queensland
Sports and Athletics Centre, the venue for next Tuesday's tour opener.
Bass player Adam Clayton said the resumption of the world tour meant
plenty of rehearsal time.
"We have been to Queensland many, many times and always enjoyed it, but
we will be busy with rehearsals while we are here," he said.
The full tracklist of U218 Singles is:
1. Beautiful Day
2. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
3. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
4. With Or Without You
5. Vertigo
6. New Year's Day
7. Mysterious Ways
8. Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
9. Where The Streets Have No Name
10. Sweetest Thing
11. Sunday Bloody Sunday
12. One
13. Desire
14. Walk On
15. Elevation
16. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
17. The Saints Are Coming
18. Window In The Skies
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Lucky fans in Brisbane tonight got to hear U2 rehearse the main part of
its set in advance of Tuesday night's relaunch of the Vertigo Tour.
It's similar to previous shows, but with a couple cool new songs in the
mix. If you'd rather not know in advance, don't click the link below to
see the rehearsal list on U2tours.com.
City of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
Elevation - Locomotion (Kylie Minogue snippet)
Until the End of the World
New Year's Day
Kite (*new version with Bono singing alone at start, then Adam joins in, then full band comes in later)
Walk On (full band)
Beautiful Day
Stuck in a Moment
Sometimes You Can't Make it On Your Own
Love and Peace or Else
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bullet the Blue Sky
Miss Sarajevo
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City of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
Elevation - Locomotion (Kylie Minogue snippet)
Until the End of the World
New Year's Day
Kite (*new version with Bono singing alone at start, then Adam joins in, then full band comes in later)
Walk On (full band)
Beautiful Day
Stuck in a Moment
Sometimes You Can't Make it On Your Own
Love and Peace or Else
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bullet the Blue Sky
Miss Sarajevo
1. Beautiful Day
2. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
3. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
4. With Or Without You
5. Vertigo
6. New Year's Day
7. Mysterious Ways
8. Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
9. Where The Streets Have No Name
10. Sweetest Thing
11. Sunday Bloody Sunday
12. One
13. Desire
14. Walk On
15. Elevation
16. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
17. The Saints Are Coming
18. Window In The Skies
damn, most bands would kill to have written a quarter of those songs. and those aren't even necessarily their best...
Yes. That was a song that I never liked on the album until I heard it live, which made me appreciate it alot more. Like most bands, U2's songs materialize for me better once I hear them live as opposed to just the album.
damn, most bands would kill to have written a quarter of those songs. and those aren't even necessarily their best...
that is for sure "one" and "with or without you" are classics and they have better songs IMO. i hope they play "the hands that built america" in melbourne.
The wind is blowing cold
Have we lost our way tonight?
Have we lost our hope to sorrow?
Feels like were all alone
Running further from what’s right
And there are no more heroes to follow
U2 getting vertigo at Dreamworld
6th November 2006, 14:31 WST
Irish supergroup U2 is preparing for its Australian tour opener by
taking on theme park thrill rides and getting up close to a Bengal
tiger.
The band, which will resume its Vertigo world tour on Tuesday night
after an eight-month postponement, risked a dose of vertigo by taking
on the scariest rides at Dreamworld on the Gold Coast.
Frontman Bono, guitarist The Edge, bass player Adam Clayton and drummer
Larry Mullen Jnr had the theme park to themselves late on Saturday
night.
The four 40-somethings took time off from rehearsals to try such thrill
rides as the Giant Drop, Wipeout, Tower of Terror, the Cyclone
Rollercoaster and The Claw.
They were also treated to an up close encounter with 12-year-old Bengal
tiger Mohan on the theme park's Tiger Island.
U2, which hasn't played a concert in Australia since early 1998, has
been based on the Gold Coast since last Wednesday, with the band
members regularly mixing with fans outside their luxury hotel.
Around 50,000 people are expected at the Queensland Sports and
Athletics Centre (formerly the ANZ Stadium) in Brisbane's south for
Tuesday's tour opener.
The band's last major concert was at River Plate Stadium in Buenos
Aires in early March.
The group flew from there to Sydney but headed home without playing a
show after a band member's relative became ill.
Since they last toured Australia, U2 has produced two of its most
critically acclaimed albums - All That You Can't Leave Behind and How
To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb.
Material from a new album expected to be released next year - including
a cover of Scottish punk band The Skids' The Saints Are Coming and a
new track Window In The Skies - could be sampled on Australian
audiences.
U2 is being supported by Grammy Award winning hip hop artist Kanye West.
Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said in a UK radio
interview that U2's 1987 hit Where The Streets Have No Name is his
favourite song of all time.
Said to be about division and violence in Ireland, the song is still
regularly part of U2's concert set-list.
U2 will play at Sydney's Telstra Stadium on Friday and Saturday nights
before heading to Adelaide, Melbourne and then New Zealand.
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sound quality sucks but hey its new U2. called "All My Life"....has a bit of Joshua Tree mixed with ALTYCB if you ask me. Sounds amazing. Better than most of HTDAAB.
I've faced it, a life wasted, and I'm never going back again.
anyone have the zootv live from sydney dvd? i just saw this at the shop today, didnt even know it existed! why do they keep releasing live dvd's but never any live cds?
anyone have the zootv live from sydney dvd? i just saw this at the shop today, didnt even know it existed! why do they keep releasing live dvd's but never any live cds?
i think , for whatever reason , they just released this ( ZooTV Sydney ) and made it avaialable .
what was that , like 10 years ago ?
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i think , for whatever reason , they just released this ( ZooTV Sydney ) and made it avaialable .
what was that , like 10 years ago ?
yeah, 9-10 years. it was just now released. im wondering if it's worth having. they released 2 dvd's from the ATYCLB tour, 1 from the last tour, and one from the pop tour... that's 4 dvds (5 with rattle and hum), but no live cd's since under a blood red sky (minus the fan club cd from their mexico show). what's up with that?
Sydney had been released as a VHS back in 1994 and was just finally released on DVD last month.
Hopefully they will release Popmart Mexico City and Red Rocks (the whole show, not the abbreviated VHS version) on DVD eventually.
Sydney had been released as a VHS back in 1994 and was just finally released on DVD last month.
Hopefully they will release Popmart Mexico City and Red Rocks (the whole show, not the abbreviated VHS version) on DVD eventually.
Sydney had been released as a VHS back in 1994 and was just finally released on DVD last month.
Hopefully they will release Popmart Mexico City and Red Rocks (the whole show, not the abbreviated VHS version) on DVD eventually.
one can hope. i have a feeling thats what theyre doing
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Inductees: Bono (vocals; born May 10, 1960), The Edge (guitar; born August 8, 1961), Adam Clayton (bass; born March 13, 1960), Larry Mullen Jr. (drums; born October 31, 1961)
From the beginning, U2 has been a band on a mission. With each album and concert, the Irish quartet has endeavored to create music of lasting worth and substance. At various points in their career U2 have been not only the most popular band in the world but also arguably the most important - although success in their own minds is purely conditional on the caliber of their work. “We had no interest in being the biggest if we weren’t the best,” guitarist Dave “The Edge” Evans told Rolling Stone in 2004. “That’s the only way being the biggest would mean anything.”
U2’s best work - which includes War (1983), The Joshua Tree (1987), Achtung Baby (1991) and All That You Can’t Leave Behind (2000) - stand out as true classics in the rock canon. Bono’s high-profile work for causes like Third World debt relief and U2’s participation in such historic rock-for-charity events as Live Aid and Amnesty International’s Conspiracy of Hope tour in have made them something of a beacon for positive change in the world of music.
Ultimately, what’s set U2 apart is the visionary passion of vocalist Paul “Bono” Hewson and the group’s music, which mixes rock’s visceral energy with artful atmospherics. U2 has been hugely popular in its first quarter century, yet they’ve remained a supergroup with an idealistic sense of purpose. Having risen to prominence in the early Eighties - a time when the iconic status of rock stars was routinely challenged by skeptical punks and New Wavers - U2 managed to become a stadium-filling phenomenon without sacrificing credibility.
Moreover, they’ve been given to periodic reinvention, as evidenced by their passage from the politically themed anthems of War to the more ethereal musical landscapes of The Unforgettable Fire (1985), and from the earnest soul-searching of The Joshua Tree to its radical and irreverent successor, Achtung Baby. Underneath it all, they’re remained true believers. As Bono told USA Today in 2000, “There is a transcendence that I want from rock… I’m still drunk on the idea that rock and roll can be a force for change. We haven’t lost that idea.”
That idea has been a motivating force from the outset. U2 formed in 1978 when drummer Larry Mullen posted a note on a bulletin board looking to form a band. The group members - Bono, The Edge, Mullen and bassist Adam Clayton - attended Mount Temple High School in Dublin, Ireland. They derived influence from the guitar-driven minimalism and do-it-yourself aesthetic of such punk-rock peers as the Ramones and Sex Pistols. Yet they also aspired to the more serious, message-laden music of songwriters like Pete Townshend and Bruce Springsteen. Early in 1981, with its debut album only months old, Bono confidently predicted a place for U2 in rock’s upper echelon. “Even at this stage, I do feel we are meant to be one of the great bands,” he told Rolling Stone in 1981. “There’s a certain spark, a certain chemistry, that was special about the Stones, the Who and the Beatles, and I think it’s also special about U2.”
They debuted with a three-song EP, U2-3, in 1979 and built a word-of-mouth following in their Irish homeland as a live band, U2 signed with Island Records in 1980. Their debut album, Boy, included the popular track “I Will Follow,” the first of many U2 anthems. The basic elements of the U2 sound - The Edge’s jittery, effects-laden guitar; Bono’s soaring, unrestrained vocals; Clayton’s solid, anthemic bass lines; and Mullen’s offbeat, hypnotic drums - were already in place at this early juncture. Boy was produced by Steve Lillywhite, who would help shape the group’s unique sound on the next two albums as well. Experimental twists would become part of U2’s modus operandi, but that core structure has remained their sonic signature.
U2’s moody second album, October, reflected the difficulty of reconciling their religious beliefs with their rising fortunes as rock stars. They even considered disbanding. In the end, U2 decided to put their collective voice to use raising consciousness. On War they focused their energy and honed their message, raging over the strife-torn modern world - specifically, the sectarian strife in their native Ireland - in such testaments as “Sunday Bloody Sunday” and “New Year’s Day.” War has been termed “a powerful fusion of politics and militant rock and roll” and even the band called it “a positive protest record.” Bono referred to “Sunday Bloody Sunday” as “a song of hope and a song of disgust,” and Mullen noted it was “the first time we ever really made a statement.”
With this album, U2 vaulted into a class with the impassioned, topical likes of the Clash and Bruce Springsteen. “Sunday Bloody Sunday” gave U2 their first #1 hit in the U.K., and the album entered the U.K. charts at #1, appropriately enough, on St. Patrick’s Day. War reached #12 in the U.S. and was their first album to go platinum.
U2 followed War with Under a Blood Red Sky, a live album recorded in Colorado, Boston and Germany. Between Bono’s onstage fervor and the band’s rousing majesty, U2 built up a monumental head of steam as a live act. Bono would wave a large white flag - symbolizing a flag “drained of all color” - during their show, symbolizing the “one world” concept he believed in and advocated. Under a Blood Red Sky, released as an album and video, consolidated U2’s strengths and closed a chapter on the remarkable first stage of their career.
Their fourth studio album, The Unforgettable Fire (1984), saw U2 move toward a more ghostly, cinematic sound. The group selected Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois as producers, and the results were more abstract and experimental than previous albums. The key track was “Pride (In the Name of Love),” a pacifistic anthem inspired by the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. U2 toured heavily in its wake, headlining arenas and stadiums and performing one of the most memorable sets at Live Aid in July 1985.
In March 1987, U2 released The Joshua Tree, an album that captivated, inspired and united the rock and roll audience like no other (save Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the U.S.A.) in the Eighties. Both thoughtful and powerful, it was preoccupied with spiritual survival in a barren, conflict-ridden age. Giving rise to a pair of #1 singles - “With or Without You” and “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” - The Joshua Tree topped the charts for nine weeks. It went on to win a Grammy for Album of the Year, and Rolling Stone judged it the third best album of the Eighties. The Joshua Tree has sold more than 15 million copies worldwide and in 1995 qualified for diamond certification (10 million sold) in the U.S.
The accompanying world tour gave rise to Rattle and Hum, a concert film and double album that mixed live and studio material. Among other things, the project revealed the group’s fondness for American roots music, as when they collaborated with blues guitarist B.B. King on “When Love Comes to Town.” Drafting on The Joshua Tree’s formidable coattails, Rattle and Hum also went to #1 (for six weeks) and spun off a pair of hit singles, “Desire” and “Angel of Harlem.”
The Joshua Tree elevated U2 to superstar status but also provoked one of the most radical musical detours by a major rock band. At the end of the decade, Bono stated that U2 planned to “go away and dream it all up again.” True to his word, U2 came together in Berlin in late 1990 to record Achtung Baby, a brazenly experimental about-face that Bono has described as “the sound of us chopping down The Joshua Tree.” Triggering a creative renaissance, it marked U2’s effort to undercut its own sense of seriousness and joint the postmodern party. To a degree, they deliberately went from iconic to ironic (although “One” ranks with their most heartfelt songs). Coproducer Brian Eno referred to “the scope of its inspirations: psychedelia, glam, R&B and soul” and characterized it as “a long step taken with confidence.”
Recorded in Berlin, Achtung Baby sold more than 10 million copies worldwide and set U2 on a course for the Nineties. It and the discs that followed - Zooropa (1993) and Pop (1997) - form a kind of triptych. The group embraced the messy state of the war-torn, media-saturated world with a grim sense of celebration, as Bono created a handful of devilish alter egos - including “The Fly” and “Mr. MacPhisto, the Last Rock Star” - for the stage. Zooropa, an adjunct and coda to Achtung Baby, was recorded in Dublin during a break between legs of the Zoo TV tour.
On Pop, U2 delved into electronica - loops, samples, beats - without reservation. Some of that album’s material actually got worked up from jamming with DJs. Pop was the group’s most cutting-edge album to date. U2 were no longer “the world’s loudest folk band,” which is how Bono described the group’s Eighties persona in hindsight. Instead of mourning the ruins, they were now dancing in them.
In the Nineties, U2’s live shows served as oversized spectacles. Their Zoo TV and PopMart tours were among the most ambitious ever undertaken. They played to more than five million people on the former outing alone. PopMart, which followed Pop’s release, satirized rampant consumerism with a set designed to look like a “giant, sci-fi disco supermarket.” A hundred-foot high golden arch, fifteen-foot mirror-ball lemon and twelve-foot stuffed olive were among the oversized stage props. The group and its 200-member crew dragged 1,200 tons of equipment from gig to gig. It was truly over the top, which was exactly the point. If Zoo TV was “the Sgt. Pepper of rock tours,” than PopMart was its gaudy Graceland.
Not surprisingly, after spending most of a decade making their point - which might be described as "defeating the devil by singing his song” - U2 got back to basics. Their first album of the new millennium, All That You Can’t Leave Behind (2001), was a return to the classic U2 sound, warm and open-hearted in a way that recalled The Joshua Tree while at the same time streaked with the sort of textures and accents they’d mastered in their adventuresome Nineties spree. All That You Can’t Leave Behind topped the charts in 32 countries and won seven Grammys, including Song of the Year for “Beautiful Day.”
Late in 2004 they continued on this path with How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, which yielded the heady hit “Vertigo” and contained some of Bono’s most personal lyrics. In a sense, the album brought U2 full circle, returning them to the autobiography of Boy. Yet in the years between those albums they’d grown from teenagers to adults, inevitably losing friends and relatives along the way. Bono suggested that How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb album could have well been titled Man.
While much had changed, important things remained the same: U2 comprised the same four musicians, still holding fast to principles and making inspirational music a quarter century after their humble beginnings in a Dublin high school.
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When it comes to fighting world poverty, Bono and his wife Ali Hewson
make quite a team. The pair were in London this week to promote their
fashion label's ONE t-shirts, profits of which will go to workers in
the African country of Lesotho.
The philanthropic U2 frontman, real name Paul David Hewson, was the
picture of pride as he wrapped his arms around Ali who was hosting the
launch party in exclusive department store Harvey Nichols. And the pair
were in no shortage of homegrown and international celebrities to help
highlight their cause.
Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams were among the A-listers who had
modelled the t-shirts for a series of black and white photos, while Sex
And The City's Kim Cattrall joined former 007 heart-throb Pierce
Brosnan and actress Patsy Kensit for Wednesday's star-studded soiree.
The black and white t-shirts are made by Edun – the socially conscious
clothing brand created by Ali, her rocker husband and New York designer
Rogan Gregory – as part of the Make Poverty History campaign. They cost
£28, £7 of which will go to the Apparel Lesotho Alliance To Fight Aids
to provide education and medicines for factory workers and their
families.
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Come on, it's U2. They will then re-remaster the remastered copies...
(I am looking forward to the special 3x5 picture included with the limited edition re-remastered copy)
October 20, 2006
"Windows On The Sky" will be the second single on U2's upcoming U2 18
Singles compilation which is due out next month. Confirmation comes
from a promotional one-sheet which can be seen on U2Achtung.com. (use
the link below) These promo sheets are sent out to record and retail
stores to help the stores plan their order and promotional efforts for
the release. The one-sheet also indicates that a video for "Window On
The Sky" will be released later this month.
see the promotional one-sheet at http://www.U2Achtung.com >>
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October 23, 2006
Thanks to our friends at U2tour.de for pointing out two brief (one
minute) clips of the music video for "The Saints Are Coming" on
U2.com. You can watch in either Quicktime or Windows Media.
Quicktime: http://www.u2.com/video/media/q_H_U2GD_30.mov
Windows Media: http://www.u2.com/video/media/w_H_U2GD_30.wmv
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October 24, 2006
ONE Issue Brings Stars Together
ONE: The Campaign to Make Poverty History, is launching a new PSA to
ask millions of American voters to help fight global AIDS and extreme
poverty.
The spot features Matt Damon (who also narrates), Julia Roberts,
George Clooney, Don Cheadle, New England Patriots Quarterback Tom
Brady, singer songwriter Toby Keith, Alfre Woodard, faith leaders
Pastor Rick Warren and Bishop Charles E. Blake and Democratic and
Republican Strategists Mike McCurry and Jack Oliver.
"This is a first step in a long-term effort to start making the fight
against global AIDS and extreme poverty part of the election
conversation and Americans can be part of that by joining ONE.ORG,"
Damon says.
The ONE campaign is a growing grassroots movement of over 2.4 million
people and 90 of the nation's leading relief, humanitarian and
advocacy organizations (including DATA, CARE, Bread for the World,
International Rescue Committee, Save the Children and Oxfam America)
working together to fight the global emergency of AIDS and extreme
poverty.
This new ONE PSA premieres all across the Internet today including
AOL.com and AOL Video, running through November 6.
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October 27, 2006
ROCK group U2's apartment development seems unlikely to contribute to
an outbreak of vertigo.
Dublin City Council has dashed their dream of three 10 storey blocks
worth €36m near the Ferryman pub at Sir John Rogerson's Quay in
Dublin's south docklands.
This is their own property and is not to be confused with the 35 storey
tower, on the top of which they will have a new recording studio, that
is being developed by the Dublin Docklands Development Authority at
Britain Quay on Grand Canal Harbour. U2's own project, was to consist
of three 10 storey blocks.
Despite being only a third of the height of the U2 Tower, the council
felt that U2's own development would be "visually obtrusive in the
skyline location and would read as an excessively bulky, squat and
visually inelegant response to the development of the site. The
council's planners also felt that it would have a "significant negative
impact on the amenity of potential residential occupiers and of
adjoining properties."
With views directly onto the River Liffey the cheapest two-bedroom
apartments could have been expected to sell for over €500,000 while the
three-bedroom penthouses could fetch well over €1m.
Now the rock band could well decide to follow the route of an
increasing number of developers and appeal the refusal to Bord
Pleanala. On average the Bord gives the green light for as many as one
in four appeals made by applicants who are refused by their local
planners.
Donal Buckley
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Stewart, Debuts Nov. 24, Exclusively on HBO
Thursday October 26, 1:58 p.m. ET
Show to Feature Top Music Stars Telling Their Stories in Intimate
Conversations
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- HBO viewers can get a preview of
the new late-night series hosted by Dave Stewart next month when BONO
AND THE EDGE: OFF THE RECORD, spotlighting the singer and guitarist
from U2, debuts FRIDAY, NOV. 24 (11:00 p.m.-midnight ET/PT). Featuring
top music stars from a wide range of genres in intimate conversations,
the show will reveal the stories behind their songs. The series will
kick off its regular run in January.
Other HBO playdates: Dec. 5 (9:00 p.m.) and 18 (10:15 p.m.).
HBO2 playdates: Nov. 26 (11:30 p.m.) and 29 (10:30 p.m.), and Dec. 9
(4:00 p.m.) and 13 (7:00 p.m.).
Each edition of the new series will be shot before an audience of
fellow musicians and fans, and spotlight performers from the worlds of
rap, rock, soul, folk, punk, country and blues. Artists will be able to
tell their stories in an uncensored environment, citing the songs and
performers who influenced them on their journey, as well as breaking
down their own songs, while drawing on music videos, concert footage
and even home movies.
Host Dave Stewart is one-half of Eurythmics, along with Annie Lennox;
the duo's hits include "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)," "Here Comes
the Rain Again" and "Would I Lie to You?" In addition to writing
numerous songs with Lennox, he has also written with Mick Jagger, Bono,
Sinead O'Connor, Bryan Ferry and Jon Bon Jovi, among others. Stewart's
producing credits include Jon Bon Jovi, Bob Dylan, Eurythmics, Aretha
Franklin, Mick Jagger, Tom Petty and Ramones. As a performer, his
latest project is the band Platinum Weird.
One of the show's executive producers is Jimmy Iovine, who is chairman
of Interscope Geffen A&M Records; among the company's artists are Dr.
Dre, Gwen Stefani, U2, Eminem, Sting, Beck, 50 Cent, No Doubt, Mary J.
Blige, Sheryl Crow and the Black Eyed Peas. As a producer, Iovine's
credits include hit albums by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, U2,
Eurythmics, the Pretenders, Stevie Nicks, Bob Seger and Patti Smith.
Executive producer Howard Klein is an executive producer of "The
Office" and was an executive producer of HBO's "Carnivale." Executive
producer Jonathan Prince was the creator and an executive producer of
the series "American Dreams."
The executive producers of BONO AND THE EDGE: OFF THE RECORD are Jimmy
Iovine, Gene Kirkwood, Howard Klein, Jonathan Prince and Dave Stewart;
co-executive producers, Polly Anthony and Mark Farrell.
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October 27, 2006
Our friends at U2tour.de have done a little investigation and digging
into the current "Hunt the Lyrics" game that U2.com is sponsoring, and
based on the lyrics being used in the game, they believe the tracklist
for U2 18 Singles will be:
1. Beautiful Day
2. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
3. Pride
4. With Or Without You
5. Vertigo
6. New Year's Day
7. Mysterious Ways
8. Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
9. Where The Streets Have No Name
10. Sweetest Thing
11. Sunday Bloody Sunday
12. One
13. Desire
14. Walk On
15. Elevation
16. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
17. The Saints Are Coming
18. Window On The Sky
It's important to note that this is not official, just an educated
guess at this point. Meanwhile, UK retailer CD WOW has this partial
track listing posted, which has one song not on the above list -- "I
Will Follow."
http://www8.cd-wow.com/detail_results.php?product_code=1047464
If nothing else, all of the speculation should contribute to the
ongoing debates about what should be on the album.
read the story (in German) at U2tour.de >>
http://www.u2tour.de/news/article3032.html
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Queensland Sports & Athletics Centre in Brisbane, and the Vertigo Tour
restart is just days away. Thanks to Australian fan Damien Taylor for
the photo -- you can see larger versions of this and another on the
Australian U2 News log.
http://www.lyptonvillage.org/u2/?p=166
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October 31, 2006
By Gregg Goldstein
ORLANDO -- U2's Vertigo Tour may soon create a real sense of vertigo
among moviegoers as the band is planning to release its first 3-D
concert film next year.
The untitled feature is being directed by Catherine Owens and Mark
Pellington. In conjunction with the film's anticipated mid- to
late-2007 debut, U2 also might take part in the first live 3-D
performance projected in theaters nationwide.
For the film, Owens and Pellington shot more than 700 hours of
footage with the band in seven South American cities during February
and March. Trekking across Argentina, Mexico, Chile and Brazil, the
film's 3-D director of photography Peter Anderson ("T2 3-D: Battle
Across Time") used nine pairs of Sony Cinealta 950 cameras to capture
the band with swooping camera angles and kaleidoscopic imagery. The
director of cinematography for the film's 2-D footage is Tom Krueger.
3ality Digital Entertainment, the project's producer, put together of
the largest assemblages of 3-D camera technology ever used for a
single project. A representative for the band called it "the first-
ever 3-D multicamera live shoot."
The feature is being edited in New York by Olivier Wiki and readied
for a summer or fall release. Discussions are under way with several
major studio distributors. It is expected that the film screen
nationwide using the Real D technology in place by theaters screening
the digital 3-D release of "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before
Christmas."
Real D unveiled the first theatrically projected live 3-D event last
week at ShowEast in Orlando. It is planning a live 3-D concert
presentation next fall, and sources said it might be a U2 concert.
Owens has been the creative director of screen visuals for U2 on
several of the band's world tours. Feature director Pellington
("Arlington Road," "The Mothman Prophecies") began his career by
directing U2's "One" video.
The soundtrack is produced by Carl Glanville, who also produced the
concert DVD "Vertigo 2005/U2 Live From Chicago." Wiki edited the U2
video "Original of the Species," which was nominated for two MTV
Video Music Awards.
Executives at 3ality declined comment.
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U2 started rehearsals today for their latest Australian tour as details
about the super group's new greatest hits album were revealed.
The Irish band, who arrived in Australia yesterday to continue the
postponed Vertigo tour, this month release their third compilation
album.
U218 Singles spans the band's recording career from their 1980 debut
album Boy to 2004's How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb.
The singles offering includes two new tracks, a cover of The Skids' The
Saints Are Coming with American group Green Day and another new track,
Window In The Skies.
Both were recorded at London's legendary Abbey Road studios with Red
Hot Chilli Peppers producer Rick Rubin.
The British and Australian versions of U218 Singles will have a bonus
track of the band's first hit I Will Follow.
The latest compilation will be released on November 18, while a new
album is expected next year.
The Vertigo tour was halted in March to allow guitarist The Edge to be
with a family member battling serious illness.
U2 have resumed their Australian tour at a Gold Coast base and they
today greeted enthusiastic fans outside the Palazzo Versace Hotel.
"The world needs more Australia's man - that's our big message," said
frontman Bono.
They travelled by helicopter to Brisbane to check out the Queensland
Sports and Athletics Centre, the venue for next Tuesday's tour opener.
Bass player Adam Clayton said the resumption of the world tour meant
plenty of rehearsal time.
"We have been to Queensland many, many times and always enjoyed it, but
we will be busy with rehearsals while we are here," he said.
The full tracklist of U218 Singles is:
1. Beautiful Day
2. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
3. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
4. With Or Without You
5. Vertigo
6. New Year's Day
7. Mysterious Ways
8. Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
9. Where The Streets Have No Name
10. Sweetest Thing
11. Sunday Bloody Sunday
12. One
13. Desire
14. Walk On
15. Elevation
16. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
17. The Saints Are Coming
18. Window In The Skies
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Lucky fans in Brisbane tonight got to hear U2 rehearse the main part of
its set in advance of Tuesday night's relaunch of the Vertigo Tour.
It's similar to previous shows, but with a couple cool new songs in the
mix. If you'd rather not know in advance, don't click the link below to
see the rehearsal list on U2tours.com.
see the spoilers at U2tours.com >>
http://www.u2tours.com/news/article.src?ID=1242
City of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
Elevation - Locomotion (Kylie Minogue snippet)
Until the End of the World
New Year's Day
Kite (*new version with Bono singing alone at start, then Adam joins in, then full band comes in later)
Walk On (full band)
Beautiful Day
Stuck in a Moment
Sometimes You Can't Make it On Your Own
Love and Peace or Else
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bullet the Blue Sky
Miss Sarajevo
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Good to see Kite back in the mix.
Have we lost our way tonight?
Have we lost our hope to sorrow?
Feels like were all alone
Running further from what’s right
And there are no more heroes to follow
So what are we becoming?
Where did we go wrong?
damn, most bands would kill to have written a quarter of those songs. and those aren't even necessarily their best...
Yes. That was a song that I never liked on the album until I heard it live, which made me appreciate it alot more. Like most bands, U2's songs materialize for me better once I hear them live as opposed to just the album.
that is for sure "one" and "with or without you" are classics and they have better songs IMO. i hope they play "the hands that built america" in melbourne.
Have we lost our way tonight?
Have we lost our hope to sorrow?
Feels like were all alone
Running further from what’s right
And there are no more heroes to follow
So what are we becoming?
Where did we go wrong?
6th November 2006, 14:31 WST
Irish supergroup U2 is preparing for its Australian tour opener by
taking on theme park thrill rides and getting up close to a Bengal
tiger.
The band, which will resume its Vertigo world tour on Tuesday night
after an eight-month postponement, risked a dose of vertigo by taking
on the scariest rides at Dreamworld on the Gold Coast.
Frontman Bono, guitarist The Edge, bass player Adam Clayton and drummer
Larry Mullen Jnr had the theme park to themselves late on Saturday
night.
The four 40-somethings took time off from rehearsals to try such thrill
rides as the Giant Drop, Wipeout, Tower of Terror, the Cyclone
Rollercoaster and The Claw.
They were also treated to an up close encounter with 12-year-old Bengal
tiger Mohan on the theme park's Tiger Island.
U2, which hasn't played a concert in Australia since early 1998, has
been based on the Gold Coast since last Wednesday, with the band
members regularly mixing with fans outside their luxury hotel.
Around 50,000 people are expected at the Queensland Sports and
Athletics Centre (formerly the ANZ Stadium) in Brisbane's south for
Tuesday's tour opener.
The band's last major concert was at River Plate Stadium in Buenos
Aires in early March.
The group flew from there to Sydney but headed home without playing a
show after a band member's relative became ill.
Since they last toured Australia, U2 has produced two of its most
critically acclaimed albums - All That You Can't Leave Behind and How
To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb.
Material from a new album expected to be released next year - including
a cover of Scottish punk band The Skids' The Saints Are Coming and a
new track Window In The Skies - could be sampled on Australian
audiences.
U2 is being supported by Grammy Award winning hip hop artist Kanye West.
Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said in a UK radio
interview that U2's 1987 hit Where The Streets Have No Name is his
favourite song of all time.
Said to be about division and violence in Ireland, the song is still
regularly part of U2's concert set-list.
U2 will play at Sydney's Telstra Stadium on Friday and Saturday nights
before heading to Adelaide, Melbourne and then New Zealand.
That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive
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link?
EDIT: check out what i stumbled upon on youtube
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fpOfLSQrIWQ
sound quality sucks but hey its new U2. called "All My Life"....has a bit of Joshua Tree mixed with ALTYCB if you ask me. Sounds amazing. Better than most of HTDAAB.
Some die just to live.
i think , for whatever reason , they just released this ( ZooTV Sydney ) and made it avaialable .
what was that , like 10 years ago ?
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yeah, 9-10 years. it was just now released. im wondering if it's worth having. they released 2 dvd's from the ATYCLB tour, 1 from the last tour, and one from the pop tour... that's 4 dvds (5 with rattle and hum), but no live cd's since under a blood red sky (minus the fan club cd from their mexico show). what's up with that?
Hopefully they will release Popmart Mexico City and Red Rocks (the whole show, not the abbreviated VHS version) on DVD eventually.
why not cd?
how many videos do they have?
one can hope. i have a feeling thats what theyre doing
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