Out of our Tree
The Joshua Tree is the best album of all time, beating Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ to the top spot. Says who? Says 250,000 music fans, polled by VH1. And they can’t be wrong.
FU-Q U?
U2 failed to win any of the three Q awards they were nominated for. However, they did receive the Q Editor’s Choice title, for ‘consistent success’.
WELL, FOUR Q TOO U2
U2 have been nominated for four Q Music Awards — Best Album (ALL THAT YOU CAN’T LEAVE BEHIND), Best Live Act, and the undoubtedly Bono-inspired Best Band In The World Today — plus, Brian Eno & Daniel Lanois were nominated as Best Producers for ATYCLB. See the other nominees at Q’s website.
ME, ME, ME
The 2001 My VH1 Music Awards are in the planning stages (you may remember U2′s triumphant live performance of “Beautiful Day” that opened the show last year). And, just as before, viewers get to choose everything about the show, from the categories to the nominees to the winners. So if you want to honor U2, you can be creative about the way you do it, starting now at the VH1 website. Might we suggest the “Better Than Their Most Recent Video Would Have You Think Award”?
C’MON, VOGUE
Well now, THIS one slipped through the cracks. You can vote for U2 at the VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards — they’re nominated for Visionary Video for ‘Beautiful Day’. Apparently we’re still not tired of nominating BD for awards… you tired of voting for it yet?
NO MIRO PRO BONO
Looks like Bono DIDN’T get the Prince of Asturias Award for Concord 2001 after all, judging from this press release at the FPA website. Instead, the money and art work goes to The World Network of Biosphere Reserves, part of the UNESCO Man and Biosphere Program, which is – of course – also rather worthy of this honour.
BONO TO GET SPANISH DIPLOMA?
No, he hasn’t finally got his A levels. Youtwo.net makes mention of Bono winning the Prince of Asturias Award for Concord. The information isn’t on the FPA website yet, and the jury rapport won’t be announced till 12.00 a.m. on Thursday 5th, but this particular award ‘will be bestowed upon the individual, work group or institution whose work has contributed in an exemplary and significant way to the brotherhood of mankind, to the struggle against injustice, poverty, disease or ignorance, to the defence of freedom, to opening new horizons of knowledge, or who has been outstanding in protecting and preserving mankind’s heritage’
There are 37 nominations in the running for this award which consists of five million pesetas, a sculpture created and specially donated for the Awards by Joan Mir
NOT SO BEAUTIFUL NOW, EH?
This just in: Bono and the boys have been pipped for the prestigious Ivor songwriting award by UK garage wunderkind Craig David. Not that Bono probably minds, since he’s one of Craig’s biggest fans and spoke out on his behalf (and dropped “Walking Away” into “One”) when the young lad was repeatedly snubbed at the Brit Awards…
SORTED FOR E’S AND, UH, GRAMMIES
E!Online has listed U2′s tour at number 14 in its succinctly-titled “Our Countdown of the Year’s 30 Most Anticipated Movies, Shows, Albums and More” feature. (Then it puts a picture of Bono next to Number 5, Planet of the Apes.)
Beautiful Day was nominated in three categories for the 43rd Annual Grammy Awards — Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, Song of the Year and Record of the Year. Unfortunately, the “Best Reference in Song by Duo or Group with Vocal to Nomadic Desert-Dwellers” category was not included this year.
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- U2 Fan Survey 2012: Third Set of Results Available May 23, 2012The third set of results from the 2012 U2 Fan Survey is now available, and it takes us through your votes on U2's albums and songs. As a reminder, the survey was open from April 5th through April 30th. We received completed responses from 3,530 fans in 79 countries this year, both of which are down from 2010. We think that's likely due to the band […]
- A Look at My U2 Framed Album Cover Wall (PHOTOS) May 22, 2012How would you like to have a wall in your house covered with perfectly framed U2 album cover art? You could just have your favorite U2 albums on the wall or, like me, you could go all the way and put every U2 album on display in order — like this: That’s one of the [...]This is a post from the @U2 blog.A Look at My U2 Framed Album Cover Wall (PHOTOS) […]
- The Resource Miracle May 22, 2012[Note: This essay appeared in the May 28, 2012, edition of TIME magazine.] It's become the go-to cliché of modern economics. Natural resources are a "curse." When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly […]
- Bono Pays One More Tribute to Steve Jobs May 22, 2012Bono made an appearance via video tonight at the Webby Awards, contributing to a tribute to Steve Jobs. A host of tech legends and celebrities each paid tribute to Jobs in five words or less, a Webby Awards tradition. It looks like Bono’s contribution was recorded within the past week, but that’s just a guess. [...]This is a post from the @U2 blog.Bono Pays […]
- Billboard Music Awards: U2 Top Touring Artist May 21, 2012Gestern Abend wurden in der MGM Grand Garden Arena von Las Vegas die Billboard Music Awards 2012 verliehen. U2 wurden dabei - wie bereits im Jahr zuvor - in der Kategorie Top Touring Artist ausgezeichnet. Neben U2 waren in dieser Kategorie auch noch Bon Jovi, Taylor Swift, Take That und Roger Waters nominiert. ... […]