It was good enough to be U2’s first top 40 hit in the USA, but NME magazine thought it sounded too much like “Sunday Bloody Sunday”, a complaint which has never made much sense to me. I’m talking, of course, about “Pride (In the Name of Love), the second most played song in all of […]
Read MoreYou gotta love U2 fans. This past week, Boston’s own, Harmonix, the creator of Rock Band, stated that U2 will be a part of Rock Band 4, sending U2 nation into a lathered frenzy. Ironically, fans of the most ironic band, still have rotary phones in their homes, AOL email addresses and only know how […]
Read MoreBono is going for the ultimate connection….7 billion people. The world hasn’t seen a connection of this magnitude since Caligula’s last Roman orgy. Bono & Facebook guru, Mark Zuckerberg are hatching some plot & scheming some scheme to get the entire world to simultaneously zone out and waste more time, by getting the entire planet […]
Read MoreBreaking news! Bono, as it turns out, is a human being from Dublin, Ireland born Paul David Hewson in May 1960. Why is this a newsworthy revelation? Because some people, it appears, believe that Bono is their god. I’m not capitalizing “god” here because this is a reference to people (and by “people,” I mean […]
Read MoreOn Thursday of this past week, U2 began a 4-show stand in Berlin, Germany, which is, of course, well known as the city where parts of Achtung Baby were recorded. In celebration of that connection, U2 performed their song “Zoo Station”, Achtung Baby’s opening track, for the first time in nearly nine years.
Read MoreSweden coming in hot, this week! By now, you’ve heard about the “Security breach” that sent Swedes running back into their Stockholms, earlier this week at the U2 concert that had to be rescheduled. Thankfully, there were no “Two shots of Happy, One shot of Sad” moment and everyone was safe. Listen, I thought about […]
Read MoreMusic comes from funny places. The song “One” is a good example. For a song that came from a tumultuous period in the life of U2, it has come to represent unity, acceptance, and tolerance in a way that the four members of U2 might have found hard to believe when the song was birthed.
Read MoreCedarwood: A fairytale of Innocence, have you seen this yet? Two authors, who were probably inspired by U2’s ability to morph their way into the world’s Ipod, are set to morph their way into libraries around the world this week with this children’s book, sporting young U2 characters. This “stories for boys” and girl’s is […]
Read MoreYou know, there are days when I think that everything I see on TV isn’t real. I’m sure that right now, you’re probably thinking about how dumb that is, stating the obvious. But the truth is that I’m letting you in on an inside joke. For every Friday night since I can remember (okay, *almost* […]
Read MoreHaving grown up in the original MTV generation, I used to think European concert fans showed up American concert fans on every possible level. Who remembers being a kid, teen, or young adult of the 80s, watching the festivals at Castle Donnington or Wembley Stadium on MTV? (Raise your hand. Okay, put it down.) Like […]
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