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Setlist:
Vertigo, Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own, I Will Follow, Vertigo.
Remarks:
U2 perform and are interviewed during the ‘Friday Night with Jonathan Ross’ program on BBC 1. ‘Vertigo’ is played at the start of the show; the others are done at the show’s end, after an interview segment. As the show closes, viewers hear Bono shout ‘One more for us!’ and the band does ‘Vertigo’ again. The program is taped December 2nd and airs the following day.

Setlist:
N/All Because Of You, I Will Follow, Santa Claus Is Coming To Town, Vertigo, All Because Of You, Miracle Drug, Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own, City Of Blinding Lights, Original Of The Species, She’s A Mystery To Me, Beautiful Day. Encore(s): I Will Follow, Out Of Control, Vertigo.
Remarks:
U2 throw a surprise concert in Brooklyn but not before the first three songs are performed on a moving flat bed truck on the streets of New York’s Manhattan as U2 shoots a music video for ‘All Because Of You’. The song is performed several times for the shoot, and Bono later sings ‘Santa Claus Is Coming To Town’ for the crowd that has gathered for the shoot. A fan is brought on the truck to drum during ‘I Will Follow.’ Later in the day, they perform a brief concert under the Brooklyn Bridge which begins and ends with ‘Vertigo’. The performance is taped by MTV for a future broadcast.

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Setlist:
Vertigo, Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own, I Will Follow, All Because Of You, Vertigo.
Remarks:
U2 make their second appearance on the long-running NBC comedy show. Unlike most acts which perform on SNL, U2 are allowed to do three full songs, rather than the usual two and the end credits of the show roll over ‘I Will Follow’. The opening notes of a fourth song were heard as the show finished after Bono had announced they would do ‘One more’ – they continued on to play ‘All Because of You’ and an encore of ‘Vertigo’ after the broadcast had finished. All in all, an unheard of total of 5 songs are performed tonight.

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Setlist:
Vertigo, All Because Of You, Miracle Drug, Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own, Beautiful Day.
Remarks:
U2 perform a live set at Hanover Quay studios which airs live on BBC Radio 1. A small crowd of about 20 fans are in the audience after winning tickets from Radio 1. Bono introduces Miracle Drug by telling the story of a former Mt. Temple student named Christopher Nolan who overcame cerebral palsy, used medical and scientific advancements to be able to write, and is now a published poet and novelist. Bono changes the words in Beautiful Day to mention tonight’s radio event.

Setlist:
Original Of The Species, All Because Of You.
Remarks:
Bono and Edge perform two songs during a special event which included Apple Computer’s introduction of a U2-themed iPod. Edge plays piano during Original Of The Species (which is also its live debut).

Setlist:
Vertigo, Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own, City Of Blinding Lights, Miracle Drug, Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own.
Remarks:
U2 perform a short set in front of 150 people that is recorded for the CD:UK television program. Vertigo, which is done with pre-recorded music and Bono singing live, is expected to air a week from now. Bono wants to perform Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own again because the crowd is too loud the first time. They try it again at the end of the set with Bono explaining that it’s an emotional song and he wants to sing it without the clapping and screaming from earlier in the set.

Setlist:
Vertigo, All Because Of You, Desire, She’s A Mystery To Me, City Of Blinding Lights, Vertigo, Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own.
Remarks:
U2 perform on BBC’s ‘Top of the Pops’. The first five songs are performed outdoors in the rain in front of 200 people in the BBC car park. Bono is the only one performing live during Vertigo (the music is pre-recorded for timing purposes). The final two songs are performed in the BBC studio for future airing on TOTP.

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