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Bono, The Edge, Larry and Adam also took part in show’s tradition of a Top Ten list. Tonight’s list was “Things U2 Have Learned Over the Years”. The highlight was The Edge’s handling of one of his Top Ten items.

Edge’s line was “Cool Name: The Edge; Uncool Name: The Itch”. Instead, The Edge substituted uncool name “The Itch” for “Sting”.

U2 performed fan favorite (according to our poll anyway) of Magnificent on their second day of five on the David Letterman show. (Alternative video) Bono wished drum tech Sam O’Sullivan a happy birthday at the end of the song. Letterman exclaimed: “I can feel that right in my chest!”

The Grammy Awards Show is over and U2 are winners. They won for every category they were nominated, again.

• Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for “Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own”
• Best Rock Song for “City of Blinding Lights”
• Best Rock Album for How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
• Song of the Year for “Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own”
• Album of the Year for How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

Steve Lillywhite won a Grammy for Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical category due to his work on How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb and Jason Mraz’s album, Mr. A-Z.

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Time has selected its Person of the Year and it’s triplets: Bono, Melinda and Bill Gates.

The trio were chosen “for being shrewd about doing good, for rewiring politics and re-engineering justice, for making mercy smarter and hope strategic and then daring the rest of us to follow.”

Read more about the honor from the Time magazine commercial Reuters news article.