Daily U2 News Digest for 2008-12-23

generic (feed #9) 8:40pm U2 – Los Angeles Times
generic (feed #9) 3:57am How U2’s $25 Million Payday from Live Nation Will Affect the Company – Seeking Alpha
generic (feed #9) 4:49am Planetarium light show features music of U2 – Carson Times
generic (feed #9) 6:52am U2’s Bono invests £100m in Palm smartphones – Telegraph.co.uk
delicious (feed #6) 9:17am Bookmarked a link on Delicious.

generic (feed #9) 11:07am A Christmas Special for U2.Com Subscribers – U2 France
twitter (feed #8) 12:01pm Posted a tweet on Twitter.

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generic (feed #9) 12:03pm U2’s album oblivious to downturn, arriving in five big versions – Prefixmag
generic (feed #9) 3:52pm Last-minute gifts? Give ’em Cash, Elton, U2 – Oshkosh Northwestern
generic (feed #9) 4:23pm U2 To Release Deluxe Versions of New Album – Exclaim!
generic (feed #9) 4:28pm New U2 album due in March – SheKnows.com
generic (feed #9) 5:46pm Arts, Briefly Springsteen and U2 Deliver Even More Cds – New York Times

The Joshua Tree’s powerful impact

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the release of The Joshua Tree, Andrew Collins looks back on the album and its powerful impact.

“But for an instance, U2 had the world in the palm of their hand. None of the irony that would dog them in the 90s, less of the piety that still puts people off them, and more of the wonder. They had such a profound, moving, mobilising, even politicising effect on the young, grant-assisted, long-haired me, I will probably always love them, like the old Stones fans love the Stones.”

Read the full review and enjoy more of BBC 6 Music’s trip down the memory lane.

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