levelandleader.com: "It was 20 years ago today " the Beatles sang on 1967 sang on their legendary 'Sgt Peppers lonely Hearts Club Band' album, and if their ever was a successor to the fab four it is probably U2. Twenty years ago U2, not the Beatles, released a their own landmark album in the 'Joshua Tree'. Tracks on the album such as "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For", "Where the Streets Have No Name", and "With or Without You" are radio staples on a wide variety of formats still today. So to commemorate U2 decided to release a 20th Anniversary edition that will hit stores on Tuesday.
One of the songs included is entitled 'Wave of Sorrow' in which Bono (seen in a video below) discusses the track that just finished recording after 20 years.
Here is what the lead singer of U2 said about the song:
"Was one of the songs from the Joshua Tree sessions that we never finished… a song that was trying to describe experiences that myself and Ali had when we were working in Ethiopia during the famine."
Here is a video of Bono explaining, and singing along to, 'Wave of Sorrow' :
Disc: 1
1. Where The Streets Have No Name
2. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
3. With Or Without You
4. Bullet The Blue Sky
5. Running To Stand Still
6. Red Hill Mining Town
7. In God's Country
8. Trip Through Your Wires
9. One Tree Hill
10. Exit
11. Mothers Of The Disappeared
Disc: 2
1. Luminous Times (Hold On To Love)
2. Walk To The Water
3. Spanish Eyes
4. Deep In The Heart
5. Silver And Gold
6. Sweetest Thing
7. Race Against Time
8. Where The Streets Have No Name (Single Edit)
9. Silver And Gold (Sun City)
10. Beautiful Ghost/Introduction To Songs Of Experience
11. Wave Of Sorrow (Birdland)
12. Desert Of Our Love
13. Rise Up
14. Drunk Chicken/America
Disc: 3 (Included in the Super Deluxe Edition)
1. I Will Follow [DVD]
2. Trip Through Your Wires [DVD]
3. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For [DVD]
4. MLK [DVD]
5. The Unforgettable Fire [DVD]
6. Sunday Bloody Sunday [DVD]
7. Exit [DVD]
8. In God's Country [DVD]
9. Electric Co. [DVD]
10. Bad [DVD]
11. October [DVD]
12. New Year's Day [DVD]
13. Pride [DVD]
urlbase.de: Bald kann jeder hautnah bei den Bandproben von "U2" dabei sein. Der Grund: Regisseur Daniel Lanois hat eine Dokumentation über die Entstehung des neuesten Albums der Erfolgsband gedreht. Wie die amerikanische Ausgabe des Musikmagazins "Rolling Stone" berichtet, geht es in dem Streifen vor allem um die Albumaufnahmen in Marokko. Dort haben sich Bono und seine Bandkollegen nämlich vor einiger Zeit zu heimlichen Studioaufnahmen getroffen.
Die Dokumentation rund um "U2" wird schon im September bei den Internationalen Filmfestspielen in Toronto dem Publikum vorgestellt. [ more]
nme.com: U2's PopMart tour performance from Mexico City in 1997 is to be released on DVD later this year.
'Live From Mexico City', filmed at the Foro Sol Autodromo on December 3 of that year, was made available on video in 1998 - this will be the first time it has been made available on DVD. [ more]
u2.com: That’s how novelist Salman Rushdie describes the unique relationship between U2 and longtime photographer Anton Corbijn.
Next month Corbijn releases his much-anticipated photo-book, ‘U2 & I’, documenting his two decades working with the band.
‘U2 and Anton Corbijn deserve each other,’ adds Rushdie, who joins Michael Stipe, Wim Wenders, President Bill Clinton and Helena Christiansen in offering insights into the relationship between photographer and band. [ more]
u2.com: Check the first of our exclusive extracts from the recently published photo-documentary of U2’s touring history – ‘U2 Show’.
With the announcement of U2’s 2005 Tour expected shortly, the focus of fans will shift from the new album to the unique experience that is the U2 live show. [ more]
yahoo.com: U2 will renew its association with opera great Luciano Pavarotti for the B-side of "Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own," the next single from the band's How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb. Pavarotti and U2 frontman Bono have recorded a version of "Ave Maria," which the two performed at the 2003 Pavarotti and Friends concert in Italy. [ more]
chron.com: The video of the hit song All Because of You by Irish rock band U2 will be shown in public for the first time during halftime of Tuesday night's national championship in the Orange Bowl. [ more]
u2.com: The single release of 'Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own' will feature a Bono/Pavarotti performance on the B-side.
The second single from 'How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb' - outside North America - 'Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own' will be available on 2 CD formats and a DVD single. [ more]
u2.com: 'All Because of You' is to be U2's second single in North America, while 'Sometimes You Can't Make it On Your Own' is set for release in the rest of the world.
Both tracks are taken from the multi-million selling album 'How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb'.
It's not the first time that the band has released different tracks as a second single from an album. [ more]
yahoo.com: Aus dem Stand auf Platz 1 der deutschen Longplay-Charts hat es die irische Band U2 mit ihrem neuen Album «How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb» geschafft. Die Gruppe um Sänger Bono verdrängte damit Eminem mit «Encore» nach nur einer Woche vom Spitzenplatz. Der US-Rapper steht jetzt auf Platz 3. Robbie Williams mit seinen «Greatest Hits» konnte Rang 2 behaupten. Ein weiterer erfolgreicher Neueinstieg gelang Aggro Berlin mit dem Album «Aggro Ansage Nr.4.» auf Platz 7, teilte Media Control mit. [ more]
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