Bono’s Stories of Surrender stage show will come to the small screen this May as a new documentary heading to Apple TV+. Bono: Stories of Surrender, featuring never-before-seen footage from the U2 singer’s April 2023 residency at the Beacon Theatre, where he staged a one-man show in support of Surrender: …
Read More »See Bono Receive Presidential Medal of Freedom From Joe Biden
Bono received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Joe Biden at the White House Saturday at a ceremony that also honored Denzel Washington, Michael J. Fox, Bill Nye the Science Guy, and more. “Thank you President Biden. Frontmen don’t do humble, but today I was,” Bono wrote on social …
Read More »U2's Larry Mullen Jr. Reveals Dyscalculia Diagnosis: Counting Bars of Music Like 'Climbing Everest'
U2 drummer Larry Mullen Jr. said that he was recently diagnosed with dyscalculia, a learning disability similar to dyslexia that effects a person’s ability to do arithmetic or comprehend numbers. Speaking publicly about the disability for the first time in an interview with Times Radio, Mullen said he cannot add …
Read More »U2 Impersonators in Paris Spark Anger and Confusion at Bataclan Concert Hall
At first glance, the footage that ricocheted all across the internet earlier this week appeared to show Bono and the Edge performing U2‘s 1991 classic “One” at sites all across Paris. One of the videos was filmed right in front of the Bataclan concert hall, where 89 fans were murdered …
Read More »The Edge Looks Back on 'Atomic Bomb,' Ahead to U2's Next Album
Not long ago, The Edge played Noel Gallagher songs from How to Re-Assemble an Atomic Bomb, a new collection of outtakes from U2‘s 2004 LP How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. “His comment was, ‘I want my money back,’” says The Edge. “‘I paid good money back in those days …
Read More »Hear U2 Get (Kinda) Funky on Long-Lost Song 'Happiness'
It has somehow been 20 years since U2 released How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb —the one with “Vertigo” —and the band is rolling out a “shadow album” of ten outtakes from it, dubbed How to Reassemble an Atomic Bomb, on Nov. 22. The band already dropped one of the …
Read More »'We Were Onto Something': U2 Announces 'Shadow' Version of 'How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb'
Twenty years after U2 released How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, the band will be unveiling what it calls a “shadow album” from those sessions. How to Re-Assemble an Atomic Bomb, to be released Nov. 29, will include outtakes from the sessions from the 2004 release. The 10-track album compiles …
Read More »U2's Sphere Residency to Return to Venue as Edge-Directed Concert Film
“After all these years, I get to see a U2 show,” brags U2’s guitarist David Evans, a.k.a. the Edge, in the 30-second teaser trailer for the upcoming concert film, V-U2: An Immersive Concert Film at Sphere Las Vegas. Apparently he, like a lot of the band’s fans, missed out on …
Read More »Taylor Swift Gets Flowers From Her 'Irish Fan Club' U2 as the Eras Tour Touches Down in Ireland
Taylor Swift made it through three Eras tour shows in London without once playing “London Boy,” the deep cut from her 2019 album Lover. The sentiment of the record hasn’t aged all that well, but looking ahead at her three-show run beginning in Ireland tonight, “You know I love a …
Read More »U2 Play 'One' With Daniel Lanois and Break Out Fan Favorite '40' at Final Sphere Concert
U2 closed out the final night of their Las Vegas Sphere residency by playing the War deep cut “40” for the first time since 2016. The 1983 tune closed out countless U2 shows throughout the Eighties, and it happened to be U2’s 40th show at the Sphere since they opened …
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