Enjoy! (And don’t miss the final minute, where it really sounds like yer man is called out as “Bono from YouTube!”)

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VIDEO: Here It Is … All 15 Minutes of Bono Singing in Timbuktu

It’s from the festival organizers and features about nine minutes of non-stop Bono — the first seven minutes are from his performance, and then a couple minutes of him enjoying the music from the crowd.

Look for his typically subtle entrance at the 1:00 mark and don’t miss the 5:00 mark, when he starts pulling out some of his favorite stadium moves.

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VIDEO: 9 Minutes of Bono at the Desert Music Festival in Mali

Over the three months of voting, U2.com asked a handful of guest contributors to offer their list of 22 songs they’d like to see make the cut. Our very own M2 was asked to share his thoughts. After seeing the list, I was curious to see whose list was the closest to what the fans’ final 22 songs were. Drum roll please…

PAUL MCGUINNESS! Yes, that’s right. He got 16 out of 22 correct. Tied for second place were Joe O’Herlihy, Claudia Espanosa (Bajagirl), and M2 with 15 out of 22. Willie Williams tied with John Noble (Bigwave) for third with 12 out of 22, and in fourth place was Caroline van Oosten de Boer (VonB) with 8 out of 22.

There were two songs that everyone agreed upon: “Bad” and “Ultraviolet.” Six out of the seven guest contributors agreed on “City Of Blinding Lights,” “One Tree Hill” and “Zooropa.” Only Joe O’Herlihy included “Elevation,” while only Paul McGuinness included “Mysterious Ways.”

Even though not all the songs I chose made the list, I’m happy with the mix of old and new. My favorite song did make the list (“The Fly”), but it still would have been nice to see some of the more rare tracks make the cut. The biggest surprise was seeing the only song that was in every U2 360 show, “I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight (remix),” not make it. For a recording that’s representative of the tour, it seems out of place not to have it included.

@U2 readers are sharing their thoughts in our Forum – check out the discussion and add your spin on U22.

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Paul McGuinness and U22 Final Tally

And yet, despite not having all of the singers there, they go on lip-synching right over Bono’s line as if there’s nothing strange about it at all.

I don’t know the exact date of that TOTP performance, but it would surely have been December 1984. And since U2 was touring the U.S. that month, there was no way for Bono (nor Adam) to show up for the TV performance.

How weird it all is.

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VIDEO: Band-Aid, Minus Bono, Sings “Do They Know It’s Christmas”

You can find U2′s video tribute on Metallica.com, but since that video isn’t embeddable, we’ll grab the one that U2News converted to YouTube (via Scatter O’Light on Twitter).

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VIDEO: U2′s Tribute to Metallica’s 30th Anniversary

Part 1

Part 2

Thanks to the group of readers who emailed us about this TV appearance.

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VIDEO: Bono on Huckabee TV Show

I’ll shutup now and let you enjoy them both.

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VIDEOS: Bono does “So Cruel,” Edge does “Love Is Blindness”

If you can’t sort out yer man’s handwriting, I think it says:

With my entreaties let the prayers of children change the world. You already have! Your fan, Bono (Dublin, Nov. ’11)

Thx to Raul for the tip.

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(PHOTO) Bono’s Letter to President Lula da Silva

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 this weekend sharing a photo from backstage at a different gig when his band, The Strougers, opened for U2.

By the way, this Dandelion gig is one of those where the date isn’t certain. On Pete’s video, he lists it as August 11, 1979. But when I interviewed Chas de Whaley a couple years ago for U2-A Diary, de Whalley was certain that the gig happened on August 4th, because he was in town that weekend to record the songs that later showed up on the U2-3 EP.

But nevermind the exact date uncertainty — it’s a really unique piece of audio from way back when.

UPDATE: We now have confirmation that the gig did happen on August 11th, and the Howth performance was on August 10th, instead. We’ll update U2tours.com to reflect that.

Also very interesting: Edge did not play the gig on August 11th because he was sick. The audio you hear above is U2 playing with a guitarist named Joe Savino, who filled in for Edge. Savino was part of a group called The Brown Thomas Band.

UPDATE #2: As Pete clarifies down below in the comments, that is The Edge you hear playing guitar on this song from August 11th. Instead, it was the July 28, 1979 Dandelion Market gig that Edge missed. Thx Pete!

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RARE AUDIO: U2 live at the Dandelion Market, 1979

You can read more about the original design of Achtung Baby in the (Ăhk-tŏŏng Bāy-bi) Covered article in Issue 15 from Propaganda.

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Unveiling Achtung Baby’s Über Deluxe box