Continuing on from what we started last week – that is, looking at underrated songs from All That You Can’t Leave Behind – I thought that this week we could examine “Wild Honey”. Recorded, of course, in the year 2000 for inclusion on the album that came out that same year, the story goes that […]
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I’ve been listening to a lot of All That You Can’t Leave Behind lately, and it occurred to me during one of those listenings that something ought to be written about one of the undervalued gems that are buried on the second half of that album (and yes, there’s more than one undervalued gem there).
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This past weekend was my birthday, and as per my annual tradition, I mostly spent the day with my mother and my wife watching U2 stuff. The last thing we watched before bed this year was U2’s 1988 theatrical release, Rattle and Hum. During the segment of the film wherein the band visit Graceland, the […]
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If you’ve watched the show South Park recently, you might be familiar with the concept of “member berries.” If not, I’ll fill you in: Essentially, these animated grapes are the show’s current device for mocking the adult characters – specifically, the way we modern grown-ups get hyper-nostalgic about the pop culture fixtures of our younger […]
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U2 bassist Adam Clayton confirmed what rumours have been suggesting for the past few months – a new U2 album will be with us in the first half of 2016. In an interview with RTÉ’s Shay Byrne for the Walk In My Shoes radio to promote World Mental Health Awareness Week, Clayton revealed that work […]
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“Exit” is a song from U2’s best-selling album, The Joshua Tree, which was first released in 1987. “Exit” is a dark song, both lyrically and musically, and the song’s words concern a trip into the mind of a very disturbed individual. For a band like U2, who have made their reputation recording hopeful, uplifting songs […]
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U2 used its benefit concert at the Cow Palace on Wednesday night to knock Donald Trump, and to raise $10 million for the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals, a favored charity of Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff. The $1,000-a-ticket-and-up benefit attracted thousands of Dreamforce attendees, plus business, political, philanthropic and other celebrity luminaries including Bill and Melinda […]
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U2 took on Donald Trump at the Dreamforce benefit concert Wednesday night in the Bay Area in a virtual face-off: Bono vs. video clips of the Republican presidential candidate. As thousands packed the Cow Palace in Daly City to watch the legendary rock band perform, the group’s lead vocalist slammed Trump’s wall with the help […]
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U2 headlined the 7th annual Dreamforce conference this year with proceeds benefiting the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals. Setlist: Intro: People Have The Power Vertigo Elevation I Will Follow Beautiful Day California Angel Of Harlem Stuck In A Moment Every Breaking Wave Bullet The Blue Sky The Hands That Built America / Pride (In the Name of Love) […]
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The world’s most famous Irish rock ban is headlining Dreamforce and a massive, elaborate stage has been erected outside the Cow Palace for the concert on Wednesday night. Salesforce, the software company behind the annual San Francisco conference, and their media team couldn’t provide details on the setup, but many passersby have snapped photos and […]
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