Sometimes, a piece of music is so extraordinary that it forces the listener to do things that they would not normally do. For instance, I have had a pretty firm rule about covering only U2 songs in this series of articles, but the new song “We Are the People,” performed by Martin Garrix, Bono, and […]
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Hewson is lead singer for the band, Inhaler, and he revealed recently that his dad wasn’t all that keen on him following in his footsteps. Here’s what the 20-year-old musician had to say. Elijah Hewson’s band Inhaler Dublin-based Inhaler is made up of Josh Jenkinson on guitar, Rob Keating on bass, Ryan McMahon on drums, […]
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Calling in to the show from Auckland where the band are currently touring, Bono shared some of his fondest memories of Uncle Gaybo from his days as host of The Late Late Show. “If you didn’t get on his show you didn’t feel you existed,” he said. “When U2 got dropped from what would have been […]
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Fan culture works in mysterious ways, but for a band as popular and influential as U2 have been over four decades, it seems only natural that a whole academic discipline has emerged to study them. The inaugural Australian edition of the U2 Conference – part symposium for researchers in the robust field of U2 studies, […]
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It is no secret that Bono has a charity-minded disposition. Over the years, he and the band that he fronts have dedicated their talents to no shortage of philanthropic causes, from several iterations of Band-Aid’s “Do They Know it’s Christmas,” right up to Street Lights’ cover of Simon and Garfunkel’s “Homeward Bound,” a new release […]
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U2 frontman Bono has said he will be “back to full voice” for the rest of a European tour after the Irish rock band was forced to cancel a gig in Berlin when they were only a few songs in. Thousands of fans were left disappointed on Saturday night when the band’s set was abruptly […]
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U2 have apologised for cancelling a concert after Bono lost his voice. The Irish band were playing in Berlin on Saturday but had to stop after only a few songs as their lead singer struggled on stage. The band said in a statement: “We’re so sorry for tonight’s cancellation. Bono was in great form and […]
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Since today is Christmas Eve, (it’ll be Christmas day when you read these words) I decided that I should probably take a break from my ongoing series of reviews of the songs from U2’s latest album, Songs of Experience, and focus instead on something that was appropriate to the holiday.
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Songs Of Experience, out Friday On stage, U2 are as big as ever. The Joshua Tree tour in the summer was short by their standards, whizzing through the sports grounds of the western world, yet it still ended up as the 12th most lucrative tour of all time – a chart topped by their own […]
Read MoreOn this day in 1960, our favorite lead singer was born. Happy birthday, Paul David Hewson
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