U2 have shared an emotional, acoustic rendition of “Sunday Bloody Sunday” to mark the 50th anniversary of the “Bloody Sunday” massacre that inspired the 1983 hit. On January 30, 1972, 26 people were shot — and 14 killed — when British soldiers opened fire on a protest march in the …
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Twenty-five years ago this month, Batman Forever was playing in multiplexes and it was hard to leave your house without being reminded of that fact roughly every 90 seconds. Billboards showing Val Kilmer, Jim Carrey, Tommy Lee Jones, Chris O’Donnell, and Nicole Kidman dotted the landscape; Super Nintendo was selling …
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It’s been an extremely quiet year for U2, but that will change on November 8th when they resume their Joshua Tree tour at Mt. Smart Stadium in Auckland, New Zealand. The tour will then head to Australia, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines before wrapping up December 15th at …
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The age of the celebrity supergroup charity single truly began in October 1984, when Boomtown Rats singer Bob Geldof watched in horror as footage of the worsening Ethiopian famine played across his television screen as part of a BBC News documentary. He was still haunted by the images a week …
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U2delivered a politically charged version of “Get Out of Your Own Way”at the 2018 Grammy Awards, braving the cold to perform outside with the Statue of Liberty looming majestically behind them. The band pre-recorded their performance Friday night on a barge in the Hudson River. The proximity of the Statue …
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I n 1985, shortly after U2 broke through in America, Rolling Stone named them the “band of the Eighties.” Over the course of 30 years and 16 cover stories, the magazine has forged a deep relationship with U2. The band’s new album, Songs of Experience, topped the charts in early …
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U2 returned to Saturday Night Live for the first time in eight years to perform a pair of tracks off their just-released new album Songs of Experience. “American Soul” opened with an animated lyric video that paired with Kendrick Lamar‘s spoken word intro; the song itself is a reworking of …
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