As part of the promotion for the upcoming DVD releases of From The Sky Down, U2 has posted two video clips from the documentary: Bono doing a solo acoustic version of “So Cruel” and The Edge doing a solo acoustic version of “Love Is Blindness.” I’ll shutup now and let you enjoy them both.
The Edge is the 38th best guitarist of all-time. At least according to Rolling Stone‘s latest survey of a couple dozen guitarists and music industry folks. (full list of survey takers here) Daniel Lanois writes a nice, short essay about The Edge that ends with this: There’s a breakdown about two-thirds of the way through [...]
Just last week, we posted rare audio from one of U2′s 1979 performances at the Dandelion Marketing. This week, there’s more U2-at-Dandelion-Market stuff making the rounds, but it’s reading material this time. The blog BrandNewRetro has posted four scans from a 1979 Dublin fanzine called Imprint, and the scans include an interview that Larry and [...]
Former Brazilian President Lula da Silva is recovering from cancer treatment at the moment, and Bono recently sent him a letter of support that Brazilian media have published. The article says that Bono sent the handwritten note via email on November 10th, which means the Hewson’s must have a scanner at home. One of the [...]
Add this to your collection of rare, early U2 audio clips. This is U2 performing “Out Of Control” at the Dandelion Market in August 1979. The sound quality is pretty darn good for a recording that’s just surfaced now, some 32 years later. The audio comes from Pete McCluskey, who was in the Irish Independent [...]
That was one of the first questions U2 fans started asking yesterday when U2 announced its new members-only subscription plan. New and renewing members will get a double-live CD called U22 that will feature 22 live songs from the U2 360 tour. And, fans get to vote on which songs will be included. U2.com posted [...]
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