Ah, memories! I decided tonight to pull out the old U2 World Service magazines (aka Pre-Props) that Geoff Parkyn edited and wrote many many years ago. It’s been a great trip down memory lane re-reading the early interviews with Joe O’Herlihy, Dennis Sheehan and Willie Williams. (Well, in Willie’s case, Geoff referred to him as [...]
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RSS feed for this sectionU2 and Green Day share Top 10 Triple-A entry.
The U2/Green Day collaboration The Saints Are Coming lands the second top 10 debut of 2006 at Triple-A as it enters at No. 10 on the Radio & Records charts. Only Tom Petty’s Saving Grace scored a higher debut this year when it debuted at No. 6 back in June. If no more songs debut [...]
From “Wake Up” to “40″ a recap of U2006 on WBWC
U2006, the annual U2 marathon, on WBWC took place July 13th. The eighteen hour marathon of U2 music was peppered with guest interviews, a special premiere, and fan requests. Tour Director Rocko Reedy called in to speak with U2006 co-hosts Todd Richards and Mary Cipriani. While Rocko didn’t have any specific information about the remaining [...]
Virtual U2
I’ll wite this carefully because I don’t claim to fully understand what all is involved… but apparently a user(s) of the virtual world system Second Life recently created (and re-created) a U2 concert inside the game/world. The “concert” involved user-made likenesses of the band, the stage, merchandise stands, etc. — all fairly realistic, with one [...]
Foreshadowing back in November ’04
Thanks to my buddy Phil who pointed this out to a bunch of us over the past day or so… If you watch the HTDAAB DVD that comes with the book packaging, you’ll find that COEXIST was inscribed on the back wall of the recording studio (you can view it pretty clearly during the Crumbs [...]
Coldplay
Anybody counting U2 lyric references on Coldplay’s X and Y? I’ll mention the one that popped out at me: “Are they bleeding all your colors into one” from “Square One.”
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