Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has some strong praise for Bono in Blair’s just-released memoir, A Journey. He says Bono “could have been a president or prime minister standing on his head.” Here’s a snapshot of the full paragraph sent in by @U2 reader Neil W.
Your turn: Whenever U2 calls it quits, will Bono [...]
You know that U2 is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but did you know they’re also in the Pro Football Hall of Fame? It’s true!
I visited the Cleveland area in late June, and you may have seen the Flickr photoset of my Rock Hall/U2 pics. Some pretty cool stuff.
But just about an [...]
No, not me. But one of our @U2 readers recently won a pair of Bono’s shades — the pair he wore at last year’s Rose Bowl concert.
It was one of the prizes auctioned off recently to raise money for the St. Francis Hospice. If you’re on our news mailing list, you might remember us [...]
Never found this video until just now. It’s one of the craziest and most trusting things I’ve ever seen Bono do in concert. Maybe the craziest. And most trusting.
It’s from last year’s 360 concert in Raleigh. Right in the middle of “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” Bono tossed his microphone to a fan in the crowd so [...]
Here’s Willie Williams writing in one of his recent diary entries on U2.com about how U2 puts together its show. This is from production rehearsals in Turin, when the band was considering three different openings to the show:
The band rolled in during the late afternoon and we tried each of these several times over. [...]
Do this:
1.) Put on the best pair of headphones you own. Not little earbuds. Real, honest-to-goodness headphones.
2.) Cue up the live version of “Ultraviolet” from the Pasadena DVD/concert.
3.) Turn up the volume as high as your ears will let you.
4.) Turn off the lights. Put yourself in complete darkness.
5.) Hit PLAY.
6.) Close your eyes and [...]
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