Kelly Clarkson is honoring the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. with a special performance. On Monday’s episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show, coinciding with MLK Day, the singer performed a cover of U2‘s “Pride (In the Name of Love),” the song Bono wrote, in part, about the civil rights …
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U2 paid tribute to the late Shane MacGowan with a rendition of the Pogues’ “A Rainy Night in Soho” Friday at the band’s latest gig at Las Vegas’ Sphere. “Sing with us, for Shane MacGowan,” Bono told the audience as the band delivered the somber, acoustic take on one of …
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Bruce Springsteen paid tribute to one of his “all-time favorite writers,” the former Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan, in an Instagram tribute on Friday. “The passion and deep intensity of his music and lyrics is unmatched by all but the very best in the rock & roll canon,” he wrote. “I …
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Lady Gaga joined U2 during their performance at the Sphere in Las Vegas last night for a rendition of “Shallow,” her song from A Star Is Born. The singer took the stage with the band clad in a leather jacket and sunglasses for a surprisingly energetic version of the emotive …
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The opening night of Sphere in Las Vegas represented a great many things. For James Dolan and his business partners, it was an opportunity to introduce their $2 billion investment to the world. For the live music industry, it was a chance to see if giant concerts could work outside …
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E VE HEWSON WILL NOT be doing karaoke today. “I have to be really, really hammered to do karaoke,” the actress explains, walking through New York’s Central Park. “I would really have to be a whole bottle of tequila deep.” Not that she is opposed to such things (“I mean, …
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U2 premiered a new, Las Vegas-inspired song titled “Atomic City” during a surprise pop-up concert/music video shoot Saturday on Sin City’s Fremont Street. Taking the stage two weeks before the band opens their U2 UV: Achtung Baby residency at the massive MSG Sphere, Bono and company performed the track a …
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Bono delivered an impromptu, a cappella rendition of Bob Marley’s classic “Redemption Song” Friday at the Sarajevo Film Festival, where a documentary about U2’s long history with the Bosnian city premiered. Both Bono and the Edge were on hand for the screening of Kiss the Future, which documents aid worker …
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The Edge is normally reserved and immune to hyperbole when discussing U2‘s latest plans. But the group’s schedule in opening up Sphere in Las Vegas this September has the U2 guitarist atypically talking in grandiose terms. “My hope is that this will be a kind of quantum leap forward in …
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Back in 1988, Shannon Strong was a scrappy young Denver punk musician playing in a band called the Pagan Cowboys while dreaming of something else. Inspired by the magazine ads of Neve recording consoles she taped on her bedroom wall as a kid and the flashing buttons at the fingertips …
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