MSN (the Microsoft Network) and U2 have announced the launch of the Irish band’s first official Web site, http://www.U2popmart.msn.com. The site will bow this Friday with “Pop Invasion,” a live one-hour Webcast where U2 fans can hear a live interview with the band while viewing digital photos. The continuously updated site, which is produced by […]
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Within ten years, U2 may very well be the house band at Caesars Palace. And we’ll be glad. By Geoff Carter VEGAS DELUXE Bono has always been one for hiding in plain sight. Scarcely five minutes into the opening of their PopMart world tour, he let U2’s mission statement slip. “Lookin’ for a sound that’s […]
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By PAOLO PONTONIERE AND KATHLEEN CRAUGHWELLAPRIL 28, 1997 12 AM As U2 fans from around the world descended on this town Saturday for the kickoff of the Irish band’s massive PopMart tour, it became clear that the Internet is taking on yet another role these days–that of party organizer. For months, wired U2 fans from all over […]
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HOLLYWOOD (Variety)–ABC joins U2’s project mesh with a low-key infomercial to launch PopMart, the Irish band’s world tour that kicks off Friday in Las Vegas. The bulk of the show is essentially a study of the premise that U2 rose to the top of the rock world and, in the nineties, has effectively reinvented itself […]
Read MoreIf the distinguished directors and cast involved in the new ABC series Gun aren’t reason enough to get you to tune in, well, here’s another one–U2. That’s right, Bono and the boys have recorded a new version of the Beatles’ “Happiness Is a Warm Gun” as the theme song of the new series, which debuts […]
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(CNN) – “Listen, I’ll talk to Jesus. I’ll talk to the lady at the check-out there at Kmart. I’ll talk to anyone.” So says Bono, the never-shy lead singer of rock group U2. And if there’s one thing that stays constant with the band, it’s that Bono will indeed talk. But there’s not much else that […]
Read MoreU2 held a press conference Wednesday morning in the lingerie section of a Kmart in New York’s Greenwich Village to announce their U.S. tour in support of their new album, Pop. The gathering was broadcast live on MTV and the Internet with the use of Real Video, a technological goody that came out on Monday. Bono […]
Read MoreFew releases can cause as much speculation, anticipation and activity as a new U2 album, but the scale of interest preceding the release of Pop, the band’s 11th album, is unprecedented in recent years. There have been leaks, broken embargoes and wild rumours surrounding the project since it began 14 months ago, and these have […]
Read MorePop, U2’s long-awaited next album–and the band’s first in almost four years–guarantees a new sound. Lead singer and songwriter Bono, his trademark long hair now closely shorn, reveals to the L.A. Times that the album is actually a melding of two distinct musical directions. “We liked the tendency in England toward pop songwriting in the [traditional] way […]
Read MoreU2’s long-awaited new album, which was due out in November, has been delayed until March. The reason? Well, it’s certainly not for lack of material. U2 has recorded thirty-eight tracks for the album, tentatively titled Expect Nothing but the Best; the first single, “Discotheque,” is scheduled to be released to radio stations on January 8. […]
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