SORRY SIR, THERE’S NO `ELVIS’
.. on the guestlist. “And the phone calls for tickets start coming in from people who you thought were dead.”
The New York Daily News talks to the Irving Plaza’s president about shoehorning U2 and other big acts into its small capacity space.
The Edge on When I Look at the World
…I see another ‘classic’ U2 song, says Edge: “When I look at the world is a tune that started off like a really heavy full on rock and roll arrangement, It sounded too easy in the end, too predictable for us so we stripped it down, we kind of rearranged it in a much more constrained way. It’s a classic U2 song but probably done in a slightly different way.”
No pretentious bagging
Put on your sunnies: this review glows. music365 seems to like Beautiful Day. It’s U2 with “no pretentious baggage”, they say.
Beautiful week?
Last week we reported on 73 year old Reg Cooper releasing his ‘Beautiful Day’ single, today we note that one of the new songs Pulp played at their secret gig on August 22 in London was called ‘Such a Beautiful Day’.
Jarvis announced “It’s a song about a dream I had.” Yes, we all think we are Bono sometimes.
Meanwhile, Madonna’s new album ‘Music’ contains a song called ‘Gone’…
All that you can obviously state
“I have this idea in my head, just to write as if you’re dead–because when you’re dead, you know, you don’t care what people think and just go and say what you have to say.” – Bono, MTV
Just trying to make sense of U2′s new album title ‘All that you can’t leave behind’. We usually talk about the things you can’t take with you, when you go. When you die. You can’t take it with you, but you don’t want to leave it behind either. The things that matter. Your partner, your kids, your parents, your friends. Which is what supposedly the songs on the album are about. See? It all makes sense.
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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. ... […]