Today is World AIDS Day, and Bono showed up this morning on ABC’s This Week news program. George Stephanopoulos did the interview with Bono last week during the preparations for that big (RED) auction in New York City. Nothing much new that U2 fans haven’t heard before, but here’s the video: Unfortunately your browser does […]
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More Rattle And Hum Treats: New Voices Of Freedom Does “The Sweetest Thing”
On the heels of our recent interview with Dennis Bell, who directed the New Voices Of Freedom choir in Rattle And Hum, we have a couple more treats to share — also courtesy of Dennis! He’s uploaded two rare audio tracks to SoundCloud that you’ll enjoy. I’m gonna go in reverse order and talk first […]
Rare U2 Footage Included in Amnesty DVD Set (Report)
You know that 6-DVD Amnesty International concert set that we reported about a couple weeks ago on the main @U2 website? It looks like it’s going to have some extremely rare U2 footage, taken from musician Peter Gabriel’s home video camera. Here’s the deal: When I was researching years ago for my U2-A Diary book, […]
Help Make the Irish Music Photo Archive Happen
The good folks at Ireland’s Hot Press magazine are hoping for some help from the U2 fan community to get a project called the Irish Music Photo Archive (IMPA) to happen. IMPA wants to create a permanent collection of photography of every Irish artist going back to the beginnings of rock music (including U2, obviously), […]
Bono Goes for a Bike Ride? Really?
A gossip site called The Superficial published this photo of Bono riding a bike somewhere near his summer home in Eze, France. I kinda like how the folks at U2 Achtung phrased it: Incroyable! Bono en parfait cycliste dimanche dernier! Incroyable / Bono on a bike last Sunday! Unbelievable pic.twitter.com/6iwBq9XQIC — U2 Achtung (@U2Achtung_) July […]
U2 Conference Friday Recap (via Twitter)
The first full day of the U2 Conference is in the books — academic sessions, mainstream interviews, a Bill Carter keynote, U2 3D and so much more. Here’s what attendees said on Twitter using the #U2conf hashtag! [View the story “U2 Conference, April 26, 2013” on Storify]
U2 Conference Pre-Events Recap (via Twitter)
Nevermind the Taylor Swift concert happening at the Quicken Loans arena nearby … we think Cleveland is “U2 town” at the moment with more than 100 fans in town for the U2 Conference. It formally starts tomorrow (Friday), but we had a blast tonight at the pre-conference party. There’s been a lot of chat about […]
Bono Praises Apple's Jony Ive
Bono was in the TIME 100 on Thursday — the magazine’s list of what it thinks are the 100 most influential people in the world. But Bono wasn’t on the list. He was asked to write a short essay someone who was: Apple’s top designer, Jonathan Ive. And he invoked a couple Star Wars references […]
Photog: "Bono Has … a Bison Head"
“Bono’s actually — even though he’s small, he has this huge — like a bison head, this really big head.” Poor Bono! That’s how photographer Gregory Heisler describes Bono in a video explaining how he put together the cover shot that TIME magazine used when it named Bono, Bill Gates and Melinda Gates as “persons […]
AUDIO: New U2 Album Song Leak or Old Soundcheck Jam?
The U2 interwebs have been buzzing for the past 24 hours about this song-length clip that a fan named Chad S. uploaded yesterday to YouTube. Have a listen, and then we’ll talk afterward (i.e., below the video): In the video, Chad says he found it on a Japanese fan site and labels it a “mysterious […]