It’s the end of the year, so it’s time to reflect on the past year’s accomplishments and start thinking about the year that’s ahead of us. It was a bit of a roller coaster in terms of album/no album news and expectations, but there were also other important developments. So let’s look back on 2013 and what was some of the memorable U2 news. January: The year is off to a promising start with Larry expressing hope of being done with recording and releasing an album by September and then releasing something else not too long after.