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In a new special, “Edge: Respect,” U2’s The Edge shines a light on musicians that have his respect — and deserve yours.

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Now available on the SiriusXM app, hear The Edge introduce and make a case for artists and bands like The Clash, Al Green, Hozier, Thin Lizzy, Virgin Prunes, Big Audio Dynamite, and more while playing their music during an exclusive mix.

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Featuring the songs of a band from the Northside of Dublin, SiriusXM’s U2 X-Radio channel is a complete immersion into the music of Bono, The Edge, Larry Mullen, and Adam Clayton. Hear the band’s history, idols, influences, and current passions, plus inspiration, conversation, culture, commentary, and ideas. U2 X-Radio introduces listeners to old friends and new stories, as well as artists, writers, thinkers, and activists who are changing the world,...

U2 guitarist The Edge has spent more than six decades living in Ireland. The country is as home to him as any place can be, especially now that has become an actual citizen there. On Monday, the musician, born David Howell Evans in Essex, was granted Irish citizenship. “I guess, you know, I’m a little tardy with the paper work. I’ve been living in Ireland now since I was one year old,” he said, per the Journal. “But the time is right. And I couldn’t be more...

If there's one superhero who's had many memorable themes, it's Batman. Each iteration on the Dark Knight has usually come with an earworm, all the way back to Neal Hefti's "Na-na-na-na-na, Batman!" opening in the 1960s "Batman" show. Danny Elfman's theme for the Tim Burton "Batman" movies, echoed by composer Shirley Walker on "Batman: The Animated Series," was classically operatic and became the Batman theme.

Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard's "Dark Knight" trilogy scores may not have received an Oscar, but it wasn't for lack of deserving one. Their primary theme, "Molossus," is intense and unrelenting but does not sacrifice creepiness. It's perfect for Christopher Nolan's dark and action-fueled Batman. Michael Giacchino's simple but effective theme for 2022's "The Batman" is the most ominous. It consistently rises in power, like fear sliding up a criminal's spine when they look into the shadows and see Batman.

One of the most unusual visitors to this year’s Cannes Film Festival was a 65-year-old Irishman named Paul David Hewson, better known as Bono to the world at large and especially to the millions of fans of his rock band U2. In 2022, Bono wrote a memoir called “Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story,” which he promoted with a handful of theatrical shows in which he talked about his life, played characters including his father, with whom he had a troubled relationship, and sang a few U2 songs accompanied by the Jacknife Lee Ensemble, a cello/harp/keyboards trio that sounds nothing like U2.

The show found Bono sharing the stage with three empty chairs, which represented his missing bandmates The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. It made for a dramatic night of memories, and he upped the drama by hiring Andrew Dominik who directed “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford...

Musical marvel Bono, the lead U2 vocalist, can be recognized instantly due to his tinted sunglasses, strong voice in global activism, and music that helped shape rock in the 80s and beyond. However, despite his decades-long career, this man has been able to maintain the kind of mystery only a few stars have.

There are several lesser-known facts about Bono, which are well-kept secrets. He is a tireless humanitarian, with intriguing life stories that have value and learning. A lot of these intriguing stories have flown under the radar, it is unconventional journey into music isn’t one that should go unnoticed. Let’s have a look at some of the most interesting facts about Ireland’s most influential cultural figures.

1. Origin story for the iconic name Bono

Before he became the face of U2, a name synonymous with global activism, Bono was known as Paul David Hewson, who was...

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The U2 singer’s solo stage appearance sees him reflect on his anguished family past and have a decent go at being an ordinary Joe

The stadium-conquering rock superstar Bono finds a smaller arena than usual for this more intimate and much acclaimed “quarter-man” show, performed solo without his U2 bandmates Adam Clayton, David “The Edge” Evans and Larry Mullen Jr and filmed live on stage at New York’s Beacon theatre in 2023 by Andrew Dominik. It’s a confident, often engaging mix of music and no-frills theatrical performance, with Bono often coming across like some forgotten character that Samuel Beckett created but then suppressed due to undue levels of rock’n’roll pizzazz.

Bono delivers anecdotes from his autobiography Surrender, starting with his recent heart scare and going back to his Dublin childhood, his musical breakthrough to global fame, his post-Live Aid charity work on poverty...

I’d love to see Mick Jagger do a one-man show, looking back over his life with the Rolling Stones and his private life without them. Jagger has always been a witty and observant raconteur, and he must have a zillion stories that could singe our eyebrows. Bruce Springsteen’s one-man show, “Springsteen on Broadway,” which opened in 2017, was often bracing, because Springsteen seized the chance to present sides of himself that undercut his image — like the fact that after all his turmoil-of-the-working-man rock ‘n’ roll songs, he is someone who had never even set foot in a factory.

But in “Bono: Stories of Surrender,” the handsomely shot black-and-white film that’s been made of the U2 frontman’s 2022 solo stage show, we watch as Bono tells the story of his life and takes us inside his ambition, his passion, his celebrity, his charity, and his family demons. And while...

Leave it to Bono to turn a book tour into something as extravagant as “Bono: Stories of Surrender,” the Apple TV+ movie that had its world premiere on Friday night at the Cannes Film Festival.

The U2 singer has never been one for half-measures or modesty, and his version of the book tour for his 2022 autobiography “Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story” was a dramatic, theatrical presentation that mixed memory and music to provide snapshots from his life, from a child in Dublin to an international rock star. Presented on a small number of stages around the world, most notably during a 10-night stand in New York’s Beacon Theatre, it was no book reading or stripped down “Springsteen on Broadway”-style presentation, but a sensory delight as theatrical in its own way as U2’s own performances.

And “Bono: Stories of Surrender” takes the Beacon shows as a launching pad – but...

U2’s Bono is seen as a successor to a very small fraternity of world-conquering rock stars – the likes of Springsteen, Jagger and Bowie. He’s less recognized as a successor to a literary tradition: the Irish pantheon of Joyce, Yeats, Beckett, Heaney, and O’Brien.

But his impressive gift of language shines in the new documentary Bono: Stories of Surrender, directed by Andrew Dominik, which just premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in the Special Screenings section.

“I was born with an eccentric heart,” he notes wryly near the beginning of the film – an iteration of his one-man show at New York’s Beacon Theatre, which in turn grew out of his 2022 memoir, Bono: 40 Songs, One Story. The lovely “eccentric heart” line gestures to an inherited condition that would almost cost him his life: He underwent emergency aortic valve-replacement surgery in 2016. That near-death experience in his mid-50s seems...

When Bono hits the road for a tour, he usually brings along about 200 trucks, a stage that weighs roughly 170 tons, hundreds of employees, and three high-school buddies named Adam, Larry, and Edge. But when he went out in early 2023 to promote his memoir, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story, he brought little else besides a table and chairs, a fake beer, and a keyboardist, cellist, and harp player.

The shows were a unique hybrid of rock concert and one-man Broadway-style production in which Bono paid loving tribute to his wife, Ali Hewson,...

Bono laid bare his transformation from Dublin lad Paul Hewson into a global rock star and human rights crusader in his memoir Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story. Now, premiering at Cannes, comes the Andrew Dominik-directed documentary Bono: Stories of Surrender. Culled from the U2 frontman’s 2023 one-man show at New York’s Beacon Theater, Bono weaves performances of his best-known hit songs into a tale of a youngster suffering the shocking loss of his mother and trying in vain to get the needed acknowledgment from a grieving father who withdrew and never mentioned his dead wife in their Dublin home. The need to fill the void and to be seen and heard led to a miracle. In the span of a week, the 16-year-old Bono found the family that would sustain him. In short order, he fell in love with future wife Ali, and found his bandmates Dave Evans (The...

U2’s The Edge called into U2 X-Radio on SiriusXM to chat with host Jenny Huston about U2’s new music, his new series on the channel (“Best Ever Guitar Sound”), the songs he’s listening to now, performing at the Sphere in Las Vegas, and more.

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“We’re having a lot of fun,” The Edge said about recording U2’s new album. “We’re working together in the studio in various parts of the world with Jacknife Lee. We don’t have anything finished yet, so it’s too early to start telling people what it is, but we’re making great progress.”

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Exclusive: Apple Original Films has completed production on Bono: Stories of Surrender, a documentary film about the making of the U2 singer and songwriter. Directed by The Assassination of Jesse James helmer Andrew Dominik, the film is a visual exploration of Bono’s one-man show by the same name that was inspired by his bestselling memoir Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story.

The film will premiere globally on Friday, May 30 on Apple TV+. That day will see the release of an immersive version of the film to premiere on Apple Vision Pro. That marks the first feature length film available in Apple Immersive Video, a knock-your-socks-off version recorded in 8K with Spatial Audio to produce a 180-degree video that places viewers onstage with Bono, and at the center of his story. That immersive film will be available only on Vision Pro, and according to Apple, the initiative is a key element that...

Larry Mullen Jr. has been diagnosed with dyscalculia, a form of dyslexia that impacts his work.

The U2 drummer recently explained that “counting bars is like climbing Everest” as he opened up for the first time about the diagnosis that makes it difficult to count or add numbers, something that has long affected him without knowing the root.

“I’ve always known that there’s something not particularly right with the way that I deal with numbers. I’m numerically challenged,” he explained on Times Radio. “And I realised recently that I have dyscalculia, which is a sub-version of dyslexia. So I can’t count [and] I can’t add.”

Having co-founded U2 in 1976 with Bono, The Edge and Adam Clayton, Mullen noted that his struggle with the learning disability has long taken a toll.

“When people watch me play sometimes, they say, ‘you look pained,'” he said. “I am...

U2 drummer Larry Mullen Jr. said that he was recently diagnosed with dyscalculia, a learning disability similar to dyslexia that effects a person’s ability to do arithmetic or comprehend numbers.

Speaking publicly about the disability for the first time in an interview with Times Radio, Mullen said he cannot add numbers or count — including bars of music, a task he compared to “climbing Everest.”

“When people watch me play sometimes, they say, ‘you look pained,’” Mullen said. “I am pained because I’m trying to count the bars. I...

During the nearly five decades Larry Mullen Jr. has served as the drummer for U2, he has been keeping time for one of the biggest bands in the world. As it turns out, the percussionist has done it while battling a learning disability called dyscalculia.

In a recent interview with Times Radio, Mullen Jr. opened up about his recent diagnosis with dyscalculia for the first time. Sometimes known as “math dyslexia,” the learning disability makes it difficult to learn or comprehend concepts in arithmetic like algebra and understanding whether one amount is greater than another. In turn, this impacts skills like reading music.

“I’ve always known that there’s something not particularly right with the way that I deal with numbers,” Mullen Jr. said. “I’m numerically challenged. And I realized recently that I have dyscalculia, which is a sub-version of dyslexia. So I can’t count [and] I can’t add.

Only 1 in 5 people have dyslexia, yet nearly half of everyone incarcerated suffers from the learning disability. Those ratios don’t match, and a new documentary, “Left Behind,” aims to address the dyslexia problem at its source: the public school system.

IndieWire can exclusively share the trailer for “Left Behind,” which Abramorama is releasing in theaters on January 17, 2025. The film follows a group of New York City mothers who band together to try and form a school dedicated to helping kids specifically struggling with dyslexia. It shows the journey of the moms who established the The South Bronx Literacy Academy in NYC, which helps open additional schools and programs for kids struggling to read, as well as testing for students to diagnose dyslexia.

One such concerned parent who has been moved by the work of the Literacy Academy is Larry Mullen Jr., the drummer from U2. His child also suffers from dyslexia,...

The Edge has teased that he the rest of U2 have linked up with Brian Eno to work on music that could potentially land on the band’s next album — and as he tells it, the results might not sound like what fans are expecting.

“We were in the studio the other day just working on some crazy new music,” the guitarist said. “Bono and I are working on some crazy kind of sci-fi Irish folk music… which could end up becoming a part of the new U2 album. We’re not sure yet, we’ll see.”

The Edge spoke on the new music during an interview with BBC Radio 2, where he touched on the 20th anniversary of U2’s How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, as well as the fittingly-titled reissue How to Re-Assemble an Atomic Bomb.

Offering more insight into the ongoing operations of U2, The Edge explained,...

Pop singer Gayle and U2 drummer Larry Mullen Jr. have joined forces for a new track, “Between the Lines,” which will be featured in the upcoming documentary Left Behind. The documentary centers around school resources for dyslexic children.

Mullen, who has a child with dyslexia, first reached out to the “Abcdefu” singer about collaborating on the documentary. Gayle, who has spoken openly about her dyslexia diagnosis, said she didn’t hesitate to join the project, according to Billboard.

“I have been pretty public about the fact that I have dyslexia,...

Not long ago, The Edge played Noel Gallagher songs from How to Re-Assemble an Atomic Bomb, a new collection of outtakes from U2’s 2004 LP How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. “His comment was, ‘I want my money back,'” says The Edge. “‘I paid good money back in those days for what I was told were the best songs, and it turns out you were holding out on us.'”

U2 fans will get the chance to see if they agree with Gallagher on Nov. 29 when How to Re-Assemble...

Exclusive: “You know, it’s a political movement in a kind of odd way,” says U2 drummer Larry Mullen Jr. of the documentary Left Behind and its tale of New York mothers attempting to bring into being the first school for dyslexics in the Big Apple’s public system.

In many ways, a classic story of successfully taking on City Hall, the Anna Toomey directed film follows the parents and their families in a battle that saw to the creation of the South Bronx Literacy Academy last year. “That’s the beauty of filmmaking, that layering on of here’s how we can bring in all of these creative ideas to express something,” Toomey tells Deadline of the techniques and tones Left Behind experimented with, including songs by producer Mullen, to depict a story that screams out difficult on all levels.

Having premiered at the Woodstock Film Festival last month,...

Taylor Swift made it through three Eras tour shows in London without once playing “London Boy,” the deep cut from her 2019 album Lover. The sentiment of the record hasn’t aged all that well, but looking ahead at her three-show run beginning in Ireland tonight, “You know I love a Dublin boy” has a better ring to it, anyway. Ahead of Swift’s string of performances at Aviva Stadium, the musician received a welcome gift from U2, her self-proclaimed “Irish Fan Club.”

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Taylor Swift received a welcome gift from U2 when she landed in Dublin, Ireland, for her latest stop on The Eras Tour.

The Fortnight singer took to social media to share an image signed by Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr.

“Already feeling that Irish hospitality,” Swift shared on her Instagram Stories alongside a photo of the flowers she received from the band. “U2, thanks for always being the classiest & coolest.”

Swift also shared the note signed by the band, “Dear Taylor, Welcome back to our hometown… leave some of it standing? Your Irish fan club.”

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Swift’s stop in Ireland comes after her three nights at Wembley Stadium in London last weekend. The singer was joined by her boyfriend, Travis Kelce,...

U2 is made up of Bono on vocals and rhythm guitar; The Edge on lead guitar, keyboards and backing vocals; Adam Clayton on bass guitar; and Larry Mullen, Jr. on drums and occasionally backing vocals.

The band is actively involved in improving human rights around the world with organizations such as Make Poverty History, Live 8 and Bono’s Data campaign.

U2 recorded a John Lennon song for a CD compilation to raise funds for Amnesty International.

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U2 has supported the following charities:

46664Amnesty InternationalComic ReliefDATAGabrielle's Angel FoundationGlobal FundGRAMMY FoundationGreenpeaceHabitat For HumanityHuman Rights Action CenterLegacy of Hope FoundationLive 8Make Poverty HistoryMencapMusiCaresMusic for ReliefMusic GenerationMusic RisingONE Campaign(Red)Save the ChildrenSpecial OlympicsStand Up To CancerThe HollyRod Foundation Read more about U2's charity work and events. Related articles Green Day and U2 single to benefit Music RisingThe Magnitude of Fortitude - When Parkinson’s Patients Feel Their Lives Are Crumbling,...

U2 wrapped the inaugural residency at Las Vegas’ $2.3 billion technical and visual marvel Sphere this weekend, closing out a 40-show run that started in September. Fittingly, the legendary band did so by bringing things full circle.

The shows commemorated one of U2’s most successful records, the chart-topping 1991 release Achtung Baby, played in its entirety with selected tracks from other U2 efforts over the years. To further honor the album, U2 bandmates Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Bram van den Berg (sitting in during the residency for an ailing Larry Mullen Jr.) welcomed Achtung Baby producer Daniel Lanois to the stage Saturday night to play guitar and sing backup on the track “One.”

“There would be no Achtung Baby without Daniel Lanois,” Bono said in welcoming him up the back stairs with a request to the audience. “Show him your light,” and they did by holding up smartphone flashbulbs in a beautiful scene.

U2 closed out the final night of their Las Vegas Sphere residency by playing the War deep cut “40” for the first time since 2016. The 1983 tune closed out countless U2 shows throughout the Eighties, and it happened to be U2’s 40th show at the Sphere since they opened up the $2 billion venue in September 2023.

Astute fans knew “40” was coming when bassist Adam Clayton and guitarist The Edge swapped instruments, which was a ritual in the group’s early days. “It’s been 40 days and 40 nights in the desert,...

While the Grammys are being held at the (unfortunately-named) Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles this year, the show briefly traveled 270 miles away to U2 at the Sphere in Las Vegas where the group performed their 2023 single “Atomic City.”

The pre-taped performance started on the 580,000-foot LED screen on the exterior of the building before zooming in to reveal the band midsong, which is about Vegas itself. “God doesn’t play dice,” Bono sang. “But he likes roulette/The wheel has not stopped spinning yet.”

U2 opened the $2 billion Sphere Sept.

U2’s Achtung Baby Las Vegas residency at the newly-opened Msg Sphere has been expanded with four additional dates, bringing the total run of the concerts to 40 performances.

The final shows in the residency will take place on Feb. 23 and 24 and March 1 and 2. General sale for the tickets will begin on Friday, Dec. 8 at 11 a.m. Pt via Ticketmaster. If they sell out, U2 tickets will still be available on reseller sites like StubHub.

U2 first opened the venue in September with their flashy stage show dedicated to their 1991 album.

The long-awaited opening for the Sphere in Las Vegas has come. U2 performed over the weekend playing at the debut of the stadium on the opening night of their tour U2: Uv Achtung Baby Live at Sphere.

The band performed many of their famous songs, drawing inspiration for their setlist from their album Achtung Baby. They played their songs “Zoo Station,” “Tryin’ To Throw Your Arms Around the World” and “So Cruel.” They will continue their tour until December 16 with 24 more shows to come.

The visuals have been described as similar to an IMAX theater movie. The Sphere was created by Madison Square Garden Entertainment and is currently the largest spherical structure in the world, taking up two blocks and is taller than the length of a football field. It includes amenities such as the highest and largest resolution LED screen in the world and covers the entire stadium.

It looked like a typical U2 outdoor concert: Two helicopters zoomed through the starlit sky before producing spotlights over a Las Vegas desert and frontman Bono, who kneeled to the ground while singing the band’s 2004 hit “Vertigo”.

This scene may seem customary, but the visuals were created by floor-to-ceiling graphics inside the immersive Sphere. It was one of the several impressive moments during U2’s “Uv Achtung Baby” residency launch show at the high-tech, globe-shaped venue, which opened for the first time Friday night.

The legendary rock band, which has won 22 Grammys, performed for two hours inside the massive, state-of-the-art spherical venue with crystal-clear audio. Throughout the night, there were a plethora of attractive visuals — including kaleidoscope images, a burning flag and Las Vegas’ skyline, taking the more than 18,000 attendees on U2’s epic musical journey.

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Given U2’s reputation for pushing technical and creative boundaries with its live concerts, it seemed fitting that the band opened the anticipated Sphere in Las Vegas on Friday with its most ambitious and transportive live show ever: an electrifying live performance and visual odyssey that unfolds on Sphere’s enveloping 160,000-square-foot wraparound interior LED display.

Built for an estimated $2.3 billion, Sphere is a big gamble by Msg mogul James Dolan and Sphere Entertainment Co. (which was formed in April to combine Sphere and Msg Networks) on the future of entertainment. At 336 feet tall and 516 feet wide, the venue is now the largest spherical structure in the world, housing the largest interior and exterior wraparound LED displays. Inside, the enveloping LED display supports a high resolution of 16K, meaning that it delivers images so lifelike that it may make you feel as though you’re no longer in a Las...

The opening night of Sphere in Las Vegas represented a great many things. For James Dolan and his business partners, it was an opportunity to introduce their $2 billion investment to the world. For the live music industry, it was a chance to see if giant concerts could work outside of the stadiums and arenas that have housed them going back to the days of Beatlemania. And for Las Vegas, it was a test run of a grand new attraction that should bring tourists to the city for years to come.

U2 kicked off their “U2:uv Achtung Baby” residency at Las Vegas’ Msg Sphere on Friday night. The sphere, which cost $2.3 billion to construct, features a wraparound interior LED screen, 170,000 ultra-directional speakers that utilize beamforming technology to deliver targeted audio to every seat in the venue, and a haptic flooring system, among many other high-tech features.

Bono and co. made full use of these features as they ran through a 22-song set that included material from their 1991 studio album, Achtung Baby, as well as their new song “Atomic City” and classics like “Vertigo,” “Where the Streets Have No Name,” With or Without You,” and “Beautiful Day.”

Oftentimes, the 35-story building’s floor-to-ceiling screens would project Es Devlin and Brian Eno-inspired artwork, while fans were treated to a crystal clear street view of Sin City during their new Vegas-inspired song. At one point, moving visuals came down from the ceiling to suspend over the audience,...

Hours before U2 open their residency at Las Vegas’ Msg Sphere, the band have officially shared the video for their new single “Atomic City,” which they premiered live on the streets of Sin City two weeks ago.

“Atomic City” takes its title from Las Vegas’ nickname during the days of nuclear bomb testing in the 1950s, when tourism spiked both from gambling and the ability to view the tests in the desert outskirts of the city.

When U2 debuted the song during a pop-up concert on Fremont Street, Bono described...

U2 are back with “Atomic City,” their first original new song in two years. Listen to the track below.

The Edge recently declared that he wanted U2 to lead a “resurgence of guitars” in pop music, and with “Atomic City,” he puts his money where his mouth is. The track — named after Las Vegas, where the band will soon perform a residency at the new Sphere — oscillates between staccato verses and a rollicking chorus as Bono sings, “Love is God and God is love/ And if your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough.” A gospel chorus and squalling horns even make an appearance before the guitarist takes a proper solo.

U2 shot a music video for “Atomic City” in its namesake metropolis. While on set, Bono told the fans who gathered to catch the taping that the song is “a rock ‘n’ roll 45 in the tradition of ’70s post-punk,...

U2 premiered a new, Las Vegas-inspired song titled “Atomic City” during a surprise pop-up concert/music video shoot Saturday on Sin City’s Fremont Street.

Taking the stage two weeks before the band opens their U2 Uv: Achtung Baby residency at the massive Msg Sphere, Bono and company performed the track a couple times during the show, which doubled as a music video shoot for the video’s rumored release later this month.

“Atomic City” takes its title from Las Vegas’ nickname during the days of nuclear bomb testing in the 1950s,...

U2 has announced the initial dates for their upcoming residency at the Sphere in Las Vegas. The set of performances will begin on September 29.

These dates are the band’s first series of live shows in four years.

Drummer Larry Mullen Jr. will not be playing with the band to undergo and recover from surgery. Bram van den Berg will take over in his place.

The Sphere is a new $1.8 billion, 20,000-seat venue. It houses 580,000 square feet of LED paneling, 170,000 directional speakers and a haptic floor system. You can see the band take a tour of the facility below.

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U2 Las Vegas Residency Setlist

U2 has not performed live in four years. The below setlist comes from their The Joshua Tree Tour in a performance on December 15, 2019, in Mumbai, India.

Sunday Bloody Sunday

I Will Follow

New Year’s Day

Bad

Pride (In the Name of Love...

U2 have confirmed the initial dates for their upcoming residency at the brand new Sphere in Las Vegas.

The run of shows, titled “U2:uv Achtung Baby Live At Sphere,” will take place beginning Friday, September 29th, 2023. Update: U2 have announced eight additional dates in December, bringing the total number of confirmed shows to 25. Check out the complete itinerary below.

The dates mark U2’s first confirmed live performances in four years. Drummer Larry Mullen Jr. will not be participating in these shows as he takes time off to undergo and recuperate from surgery. In his place, Bono, The Edge, and Adam Clayton will be joined by drummer Bram van den Berg.

A Ticketmaster Verified Fan pre-sale for the eight December dates is ongoing through Monday, May 15th. The Verified Fan pre-sale will commence on Thursday, May 18th, followed by a general on-sale on Friday, May 19th via Ticketmaster. All-in...

Now that Oscar season is over, the awards calendar is turning its full attention toward Emmys time. Streaming services and cable networks are increasing the flow of contender releases as the 2022-23 eligibility period approaches its May 31 deadline. The likely Outstanding Comedy Series winner just premiered this week. If you’re here, you probably already know what it is, so let’s get to it.

The contender to watch this week: “Ted Lasso”

Jason Sudeikis’ massively popular soccer comedy series kicked off its third and (maybe?) final season on Apple TV+ Wednesday. The show’s domination of comedy categories in 2021 and 2022 means this year’s Emmys are Ted’s to lose. In the premiere, Coach Ted (Sudeikis) inspires his players, who are down in the dumps because every pundit predicts they’ll come in last in the Premier League, by taking them on a tour of London’s sewer system.

U2’s the Edge explained the chemistry behind his and Bono’s songwriting process in a new interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe. “It’s not like Lennon and McCartney where there’s two guys [and] the rivalry probably made them better,” he told Lowe while sitting beside Bono. “They’re also basically doing the same thing – singers and songwriters. I do a lot of music composition, but I need Bono to finish the song, so we complement each other; we don’t ever cancel each other out. It’s additive.

Jimmy Kimmel is still the afterglow of a strong Oscars-hosting performance. Wednesday night he took his final victory lap, in which a guest heaped praise on a night rife with quality jokes that brought a desperately-needed 12 percent boost in telecast ratings over the previous year. And who better to do it than the beloved entertainer who notoriously failed at his sole attempt at hosting the show: David Letterman?

Showing the late-night legend the respect he deserves, the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” host welcomed Letterman by saying that “nobody on television means more to me than [him].”

The extremely bearded comedian, on Jimmy’s couch to promote his forthcoming Disney+ documentary/chat with Bono and The Edge of U2, was quick to congratulate Kimmel on a job well done at the Oscars. He began by repeating a dopey line he always used to say and no one in the audience laughed. This is...

U2’s Bono and the Edge and David Letterman joined forces again at the Wednesday night premiere of the Disney+ special “A Sort of Homecoming,” with the band members explaining that they needed the former late-night host to add some irreverence to the Morgan Neville-directed documentary, set to begin streaming March 17.

Said Bono to the audience at downtown L.A.’s Orpheum Theatre, “The thing that Dave brought — I don’t know if you agree, Edge — is that he brought the comedy to the tragedy. And you know, there’s a reason why Willie Shakespeare wrote that form. And our music is just better with him around, I thought. Musically, it was better just by him being in the room, kind of taking the piss out of it.”

The Edge tried to beat Letterman at his own game at the post-premiere Q&a. Asked why they got Letterman involved,...

In upcoming concert doc Bono and The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming with Dave Letterman, U2’s Bono and The Edge return to Dublin with longtime fan David Letterman in tow.

On Wednesday evening, the stars gathered at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Los Angeles to celebrate the film’s premiere. Following the screening, the trio and director Morgan Neville took the stage for a Q&a panel moderated by The Hollywood Reporter’s Nekesa Mumbi Moody.

In the Disney+ film, Letterman joins Bono and The Edge as they dive into the history of U2, Irish culture and the nearly 50-year songwriting partnership between the two friends.

“[Letterman] brought the comedy to the tragedy and there’s a reason why Shakespeare loved that form. Our music is just better with him around,” Bono praised the host. “The music is better itself just by him being in the room, taking the piss out of us.

The jokes were zipping as David Letterman got together on stage in Los Angeles Wednesday night with two of his favorite musicians – U2’s Bono and The Edge – for the world premiere of the Disney+ documentary Bono and The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming with Dave Letterman. But it was The Edge who landed the first barb.

At the Q&a for the film, which revolves around Bono and Edge working on reimagined versions of U2’s canon in Dublin, with Letterman as their white-bearded interlocutor, Edge was asked why he and his bandmate thought to bring Letterman along on their cinematic journey.

“Well, being honest, the first idea was Jay Leno,” he cracked. More earnestly, he added, “We’re huge fans, have been for a long time. We’ve known Dave for many years and he was foolish enough once to invite us to play for an entire week on The Late Show.

Near the end of U2’s new album, Songs of Surrender, the band kicks into the familiar opening chords of their 1980 breakthrough single “I Will Follow.” But there are no drums, bass, or electric guitar, and Bono quickly begins singing new lyrics that better fit his perspective on life at age 62, rather than 22.

“I was on the outside when you said, you said you needed me,” he sings. “In the mirror a reflection of the boy I can never be/A boy tried hard to be a man/His mother...

In a commercial during Sunday’s Super Bowl, the Irish rock band U2 announced a series of Las Vegas shows in a UFO-themed trailer.

The U2:uv Achtung Baby Live at the Sphere residency is scheduled to take place this fall at the Msg Sphere in the Venetian resort in Las Vegas.

U2 will be the first band to perform at the new venue, which can hold up to 17,500 people.

The Mgs Sphere was originally set to open in 2021, but the Covid-19 pandemic delayed its construction until 2023.

The show is described as a “futuristic adventure in a unique desert landscape.” It’s the band’s first live performance in four years following their 30th anniversary Joshua Tree tour.

A new version of the song “One” off their 1991 album, Achtung Baby, was played during the NFL’s Walter Payton Man of the Year presentation that honored Dallas Cowboys’ Dak Prescott.

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Los Angeles, Feb 13 (Ians) Irish rock band U2 announced a series of concerts in Las Vegas this fall celebrating their 1991 album ‘Achtung Baby’ in a cryptic 15-second ad aired during the Super Bowl on Sunday evening (US Time), reports ‘Variety’.

Drummer Larry Mullen Jr, still recovering from surgery, will sit out this run of shows. Dutch drummer Bram van den Berg will fill in, ‘Variety’ adds.

The concerts, titled ‘U2:uv Achtung Baby Live at the Sphere’, will see the band launching the new venue, Msg Sphere at the Venetian in Las Vegas. Further details were not immediately available. The unspecified “special run of shows”, however, will mark the band’s first live performances in four years, according to ‘Variety’.

It seems likely to be a kickoff for a world tour, notes ‘Variety’, celebrating the anniversary of ‘Achtung Baby’, similar to the band’s blockbuster tours around the 30th anniversary...

It’s a bird, it’s a plane — no, it’s just a big announcement that U2 will perform at the all-new Msg Sphere in Las Vegas later this fall. The Irish rockers announced their “U2:uv Achtung Baby Live at the Sphere” residency with a commercial during the Super Bowl, depicting a baby’s head floating in a giant sphere over the Vegas strip before saying the word “achtung.” Get it? Like their 1991 album Achtung Baby?

U2’s run at the Msg Sphere marks the band’s first confirmed live performances in four years. As expected, drummer Larry Mullen Jr. won’t be joining the band as he takes time off to undergo and recuperate from surgery. Register here to be notified with details on the show dates and tickets.

“It’s going to take all we’ve got to approach the Sphere without our bandmate in the drum seat,...

A Super Bowl commercial confirmed today what has long been suspected: U2 will take up residency in the brand-new Msg Sphere in Las Vegas for an immersive show that mines the band’s catalog.

U2 has been in a retrospective mood of late. Lead singer Bono has been making the rounds to promote his memoir, Surrender. On Friday, the band will release its long-awaited Songs Of Surrender ― a collection of 40 songs from across the band’s catalog, re-recorded and reimagined. And now, the band has confirmed the Vegas residency that will be focused on one of its most iconic albums.

Dubbed “U2:uv Achtung Baby Live At The Sphere,” the residency will celebrate the band’s darker, post-Joshua Tree turn that resulted in the 1991 album Achtung Baby and hits like “One,” “Mysterious Ways,” “The Fly” and “Even Better Than The Real Thing.”

The residency will take place at the brand-new Msg Sphere at the Venetian.

More than seven months after rumors circulated that U2 would perform the first-ever concerts at Las Vegas’ Msg Sphere, the Irish rockers officially announced on Super Bowl Sunday that they will stage shows dedicated to their 1991 LP Achtung Baby to launch the city’s massive new globe-shaped venue.

Bono and company — who have their sorta-new album Songs of Surrender arriving in March — previously teased the worst-kept secret in Sin City prior to the Super Bowl, posting an image of a newborn baby within the newly constructed Msg Sphere on a website not-so-subtly called U2xsphere.