Samstag, 20. November 2004
spiegel.de: Die PR-Maschine für das neue Album der irischen Popband U2 rollt auf Hochtouren. Ein norddeutscher Radiosender lud 30 Gäste ein, die elf Songs in der Hamburger U-Bahn vorab anhören durften - in der U 2. [
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reuters.co.uk: With about 115 dates already slotted, U2's 2005 world tour will likely surpass its last outing in capacity and money.
The group's 2001 tour grossed 56 million pounds ($104 million) from 106 shows worldwide, according to Billboard Boxscore. The top gross was 3.4 million pounds ($6.4 million) from four sellouts at Chicago's United Centre. [ more]
The group's 2001 tour grossed 56 million pounds ($104 million) from 106 shows worldwide, according to Billboard Boxscore. The top gross was 3.4 million pounds ($6.4 million) from four sellouts at Chicago's United Centre. [
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u2.com: USA Today praises the new album, as Edna Gunderson interviews all four band members on the eve of release.
‘How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, U2's 11th studio album and first since 2000, arrives Tuesday amid more anticipation than any release this year. The blissful and aggressive "Vertigo," No. 1 at modern rock stations, is the band's hottest U.S. single to date and just knocked Eminem off the top of the U.K. chart. [ more]
‘How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, U2's 11th studio album and first since 2000, arrives Tuesday amid more anticipation than any release this year. The blissful and aggressive "Vertigo," No. 1 at modern rock stations, is the band's hottest U.S. single to date and just knocked Eminem off the top of the U.K. chart. [
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usatoday.com: How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, U2's 11th studio album and first since 2000, arrives Tuesday amid more anticipation than any release this year. The blissful and aggressive Vertigo, No. 1 at modern rock stations, is the band's hottest U.S. single to date and just knocked Eminem off the top of the U.K. chart.
Despite Internet piracy, retailers expect a monster opening week and huge holiday sales, and promoters predict instant sellouts for a world tour starting March 1 in Miami. [ more]
Despite Internet piracy, retailers expect a monster opening week and huge holiday sales, and promoters predict instant sellouts for a world tour starting March 1 in Miami. [
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canoe.ca: On the one hand, there are those who prefer the band's earthy, earnest emotional arena-rock. On the other hand, there are those who favour their esoteric, ethereal experiments. Which is to say: No matter what kind of an album Bono and co. make, somebody always seems to end up bummed.
To their credit, though, U2 are good enough to give each side a decade to call their own. The rockers got to lay claim to the '80s, when Bono lit The Unfogettable Fire and waved the white flag for Sunday Bloody Sunday. [ more]
To their credit, though, U2 are good enough to give each side a decade to call their own. The rockers got to lay claim to the '80s, when Bono lit The Unfogettable Fire and waved the white flag for Sunday Bloody Sunday. [
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contactmusic.com: Veteran rockers U2 wanted there new album HOW TO DISMANTLE A BOMB to sound like a live band playing in a studio, because they were desperate to capture the sound of youthful energy.
Previously famed for their heavily-produced sound on albums including ZOOROPA, the BONO-fronted legends wanted to get back to being a band again after listening to records by younger groups THE HIVES and THE LIBERTINES.
Bassist ADAM CLAYTON says, "It was really down to making the songs work with the three or four musical elements. On previous records we tended to do a live take but then there would be overdubs to get something out of the song. So this is raw and that was the intention. [ more]
Previously famed for their heavily-produced sound on albums including ZOOROPA, the BONO-fronted legends wanted to get back to being a band again after listening to records by younger groups THE HIVES and THE LIBERTINES.
Bassist ADAM CLAYTON says, "It was really down to making the songs work with the three or four musical elements. On previous records we tended to do a live take but then there would be overdubs to get something out of the song. So this is raw and that was the intention. [
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yahoo.com: U2 has sold more than 120 million albums worldwide and won 14 Grammy Awards during the course of its 26-year career, so you would think that there would be a level of ease that comes with a new release.
Not so, says the Irish band's longtime manager Paul McGuinness.
"There is absolutely no resting on our laurels," he tells Billboard. "I say to people we have to break the band every time we put out a record."
And this is with an album that McGuinness expects to debut at No. 1 in "32 or 33 countries." [ more]
Not so, says the Irish band's longtime manager Paul McGuinness.
"There is absolutely no resting on our laurels," he tells Billboard. "I say to people we have to break the band every time we put out a record."
And this is with an album that McGuinness expects to debut at No. 1 in "32 or 33 countries." [
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mirror.co.uk: Twenty-two years ago, in a small Scottish hotel, Bono Vox told me how his band was going to conquer the world. Young wannabes with big ideas weren't unusual and Bono was just a little-known Irish singer with a slightly ridiculous name. Yet something about him and his band - the charisma, the self-belief, the ability to sweep up others in their dreams - was different.
So it proved to be. Over the course of their career, U2 have consistently re-energised their belief in the redemptive power of rock 'n' roll. Nothing seemed beyond their reach - songs tackling politics, spiritual hope, abandonment, love and terror. They played shows with live links to a war zone and gained access to great and not always good political powerbrokers. [ more]
So it proved to be. Over the course of their career, U2 have consistently re-energised their belief in the redemptive power of rock 'n' roll. Nothing seemed beyond their reach - songs tackling politics, spiritual hope, abandonment, love and terror. They played shows with live links to a war zone and gained access to great and not always good political powerbrokers. [
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dolomiten.it: Die Ankündigungen von Bono, Sänger von U2, ließen aufhorchen: Das nächste Album seiner Band wäre rau, kompromisslos und von Gitarren getrieben, ließ der Ire in Interviews wissen. [ more]
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itv.com: The new Band Aid 20 video has been shown for the first time - with pop queen Madonna reminding people "none of us can forget".
U2 frontman Bono won the battle to belt out "And Tonight Thank God it's Them Instead of You" as he did two decades ago. Coldplay's Chris Martin, singers Dido and Robbie Williams have the opening lines of the song. [ more]
U2 frontman Bono won the battle to belt out "And Tonight Thank God it's Them Instead of You" as he did two decades ago. Coldplay's Chris Martin, singers Dido and Robbie Williams have the opening lines of the song. [
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