Bono and The Edge played a few songs for NPR’s Tiny Desk. The performance was a preview of U2’s new album, Songs of Surrender, featuring stripped-down versions of songs from across the band’s catalog. To help pull off several reimagined songs from the 2000 album All That You Can’t Leave Behind, Bono and The EdgeContinue reading “Bono And The Edge: Tiny Desk Concert”
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U2 To Perform At New Vegas ‘Sphere’ For First Live Concerts In 4 Years
‘U2:UV Achtung Baby Live At The Sphere’ – a special run of shows marking the band’s first live outing in four years – will see the world’s biggest rock band launch the world’s most exciting all-new state-of-the-art venue, MSG Sphere in Las Vegas this Fall. The announcement comes with confirmation that Larry Mullen willContinue reading “U2 To Perform At New Vegas ‘Sphere’ For First Live Concerts In 4 Years”
U2 Reimagine 40 of Their Songs For New Album ‘Songs of Surrender’
Songs of Surrender, a collection of 40 seminal U2 songs, re-recorded and reimagined for 2023, will be released on Friday 17th March. Watch the announcement video HERE. ‘Pride (In The Name of Love)’, the first track from this brand new set of recordings is released today. Listen HERE. Songs of Surrender, curated and produced byContinue reading “U2 Reimagine 40 of Their Songs For New Album ‘Songs of Surrender’”
Bono Announces 14-Date Book Tour In Support of Memoir Surrender
Bono will embark on a book tour this fall in support of his upcoming autobiography, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story. The book is scheduled for worldwide release on November 1. One day later, the Stories of Surrender tour, billed as “an evening of words, music and some mischief,” will launch on November 2 at theContinue reading “Bono Announces 14-Date Book Tour In Support of Memoir Surrender”
Bono’s Memoir, Surrender Will Be Released November 1, 2022
Bono—artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2—has Bon’s written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he’s lived, the challenges he’s faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him. “When I started to write this book, I wasContinue reading “Bono’s Memoir, Surrender Will Be Released November 1, 2022”
30th Anniversary Edition of U2’s Achtung Baby Announced
Island Records, Interscope, and UMe announced the 30th Anniversary Edition release of U2’s seminal album Achtung Baby, which will see a special Standard and Deluxe vinyl release on November 19, ahead of a 50-track digital boxset available December 3, 2021. Thirty years ago, Bono described Achtung Baby as “the sound of four men chopping downContinue reading “30th Anniversary Edition of U2’s Achtung Baby Announced”
U2 All That You Can’t Leave Behind 20th Anniversary Multi-Format Reissue To Be Released On October 30
Island Records, Interscope, and UMe announced the 20th Anniversary reissue of U2’s global smash hit album All That You Can’t Leave Behind. This multi-format anniversary edition release, featuring a brand new 12-track remaster of the record, and a 51-track Super Deluxe box set is to be released on the actual date of the 20th anniversary,Continue reading “U2 All That You Can’t Leave Behind 20th Anniversary Multi-Format Reissue To Be Released On October 30”
U2 Announces New Album, Songs of Experience Due On December 1, 2017
Songs of Experience, U2’s hotly anticipated 14th studio album, will arrive on December 1st on CD, vinyl, digital download and across streaming platforms. Today the band also revealed the artwork for Songs of Experience, shot by Dutch photographer, film director and longtime collaborator Anton Corbijn, of band-members’ teenage children Eli Hewson and Sian Evans. RecordedContinue reading “U2 Announces New Album, Songs of Experience Due On December 1, 2017”
U2 Detail The Joshua Tree Summer Tour
U2 will celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Joshua Tree this year by performing the seminal 1987 album in its entirety at stadiums across America and Europe, including a stop at Bonnaroo. The festival slot will mark the group’s first-ever headlining set at an U.S. festival. The tour – which features Mumford & Sons, TheContinue reading “U2 Detail The Joshua Tree Summer Tour”
U2’s Songs of Innocence To Be Released By Island Records On October 13, 2014
U2’s latest studio album Songs Of Innocence, containing 11 new tracks, will be released by Island Records on October 13, 2014. The release follows the album being given today to U2.com subscribers and gifted by Apple to over half a billion iTunes Music Store customers worldwide. Songs of Innocence is U2’s most personal work toContinue reading “U2’s Songs of Innocence To Be Released By Island Records On October 13, 2014”