Dienstag, 12. Oktober 2004
xfm.co.uk: Following its well-established tradition of having a list of ‘World’s Greatest Bands, Songwriters, Singles, Gigs, Singers or Albums’ Q Magazine has now announced its Top 50 Bands Of All Time list. 
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- Pink Floyd
- Led Zeppelin
- Rolling Stones
- U2
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macworld.co.uk: Apple's UK Music Store is offering a new single of the week, an extended version of the new U2 iPod ad and more to UK music fans this week.The U2 video features the iTunes-exclusive new 'Vertigo' single, which shot to the top ten on its release on the service this month. The video features the familiar coloured backgrounds Mac users are familiar with, along with a series of moving images of the band in silhouette. [
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Montag, 11. Oktober 2004
examiner.ie: Music moguls Sir Bob Geldof and U2 manager Paul McGuinness were today locked in a heavyweight battle to plug the gap in Dublin’s radio stations with alternative rock.
Sir Bob claimed his new station Zed FM would inspire music lovers who had been left bored with the lack of quality and choice on the capital’s airwaves.
But Mr McGuinness said Phantom FM had stolen a march on their rivals and already tapped into the youth market with their alternative brand. [ more]
Sir Bob claimed his new station Zed FM would inspire music lovers who had been left bored with the lack of quality and choice on the capital’s airwaves.
But Mr McGuinness said Phantom FM had stolen a march on their rivals and already tapped into the youth market with their alternative brand. [
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bostonherald.com: Bono says that being famous is just like slipping into and out of a prom dress. ``We don't get the paparazzi, we don't get all that kerfuffle,'' the U2 frontman told Vanity Fair. ``There was a time when we were playing with celebrity, we tried it on like a party dress, and I enjoyed it actually, but it is not the way people relate to us.'' [ more]
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star-ecentral.com: Mega rock band U2's music will be the subject of a religious course run by a church in Iowa.
The Spirituality of U2 programme, which runs by four weeks, is being conducted by the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Des Moines.
The course will illustrate parallels between U2's music and religion through the study of subliminal meanings in their lyrics and concerts. [ more]
The Spirituality of U2 programme, which runs by four weeks, is being conducted by the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Des Moines.
The course will illustrate parallels between U2's music and religion through the study of subliminal meanings in their lyrics and concerts. [
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Freitag, 8. Oktober 2004
u2.com: Paul McGuinness has confirmed that U2 will tour next year but urged fans not to buy tickets until details are confirmed.
U2 manager Paul McGuinness today confirmed that the band will set out on a major tour next year but urged the band's fans not to part with any money for concert tickets until the tour details are confirmed.
"We are still very much in the planning stages of our tour for next year which will visit the US, Canada, Europe, Japan and Australia, and the band is really looking forward to getting out on the road."
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U2 manager Paul McGuinness today confirmed that the band will set out on a major tour next year but urged the band's fans not to part with any money for concert tickets until the tour details are confirmed.
"We are still very much in the planning stages of our tour for next year which will visit the US, Canada, Europe, Japan and Australia, and the band is really looking forward to getting out on the road."
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dailybulletin.com: It's a beautiful day for a Claremont-based charity, which got help from U2 singer Bono in getting a shipment of hospital beds and medicine into South Africa.
The 40-foot container of supplies for an AIDS clinic was hung up for four months by South African customs officials, who expressed such realistic concerns as whether powdered baby formula might really be heroin.
"I wrote, like, 35 letters to everyone from Nelson Mandela to Oprah Winfrey to Bono, everyone with an interest in the AIDS situation in Africa," KidCare International founder Larry Kapchinsky told me.
"The only one who responded positively was DATA, Bono's organization. They jumped on it and sent two letters to agencies in Africa." [ more]
The 40-foot container of supplies for an AIDS clinic was hung up for four months by South African customs officials, who expressed such realistic concerns as whether powdered baby formula might really be heroin.
"I wrote, like, 35 letters to everyone from Nelson Mandela to Oprah Winfrey to Bono, everyone with an interest in the AIDS situation in Africa," KidCare International founder Larry Kapchinsky told me.
"The only one who responded positively was DATA, Bono's organization. They jumped on it and sent two letters to agencies in Africa." [
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Donnerstag, 7. Oktober 2004
u2.com: As the Virgin Prunes back-catalogue is re-released, Gavin Friday remembers when ’Fionan became Gavin, Derek became Guggi and Paul became Bono…’
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u2.com: … more of the inside track on the making of the Vertigo video, plus how Edge knows what the weather is like and Bono on where the new single came from.
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uncut.co.uk: Whatever their forthcoming album, How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, brings, it will be difficult for U2 to top their Achtung Baby/Zooropa/Zoo TV glory days of the early ’90s, during which the band produced arguably their greatest album and one of the most dramatic rock’n’roll stage shows ever seen.
A decade on, we assess the after-shock of the Irish supergroup’s radical transformation from earnest musos to manic cyber-rockers.
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contactmusic.com: U2 frontman Bono may have known his wife Ali Hewson since his schooldays, but the rocker still does not understand her.
The pair met when they were at school together in Dublin 30 years ago, and were friends before they started dating.
But he says, "There's still a lot I don't know about her. She's a mystery to me. Sometimes I feel like I'm not good enough for her."
The pair met when they were at school together in Dublin 30 years ago, and were friends before they started dating.
But he says, "There's still a lot I don't know about her. She's a mystery to me. Sometimes I feel like I'm not good enough for her."
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contactmusic.com: U2 frontman Bono is finding it harder and harder to maintain his rock idol image, as age takes its toll on his body.Although a youthful 44, the rocker confesses he is becoming increasingly self-conscious about his weight.
He moans, "I see pictures of myself and think, Oh God. "I can look like a rock star. But I can also look like a pudgy politician. Or a darts player. "It's always sexy on the inside, though."
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nme.com: U2 representatives have taken action to stop an internet shop selling tickets for a tour the band claim is not happening.
Earlier this week it was possible to buy tickets online for huge stadium shows in Dublin (Croke Park, June 26-27), London (Twickenham Park, July 2) and Paris’ Stade De France (early July, 2005).
However, the tickets - which ranged in price from £125 to £295, were removed when the site received a "letter" refuting the dates. [ more]
Earlier this week it was possible to buy tickets online for huge stadium shows in Dublin (Croke Park, June 26-27), London (Twickenham Park, July 2) and Paris’ Stade De France (early July, 2005).
However, the tickets - which ranged in price from £125 to £295, were removed when the site received a "letter" refuting the dates. [
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abacausa.com: Irish band U2 in Monaco filming for UK television. The group rented a vintage Cadillac which soon brokedown and could not be used. Instead of the Cadillac Bono used his BMW and filming was resumed. [ more] noch kein Kommentar - Kommentar verfassen
Mittwoch, 6. Oktober 2004
u2.com: Vertigo has gone straight to No.1 in the UK official download chart – and has broken weekly download records in the US.
The digital version of Vertigo has sold sold more in the past week than any track in download history!
The digital version of Vertigo has sold sold more in the past week than any track in download history!
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Dienstag, 5. Oktober 2004
ctv.ca: Any book that features Bob Dylan sharing a greasy hamburger backstage with Tiny Tim is going to get your attention -- especially when the story is told by the ordinarily reclusive Dylan himself.Dylan recounts a dinner with U2 singer Bono, who arrived for the meal toting a case of Guinness. "He's like that guy in the old movie, the one who beats up a rat with his bare hands and wrings a confession out of him'' Dylan writes. "If Bono had come to America in the early part of the century he would have been a cop.''[
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showbizireland.com: The Edge took a short break from U2's impending album release, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, to attend the screening of a movie which clearly illustrates the ill effects of nuclear energy... [ more]
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xfm.co.uk: Speaking at yesterday’s Q Awards, where the band picked up the prestigious Icon Award, U2 frontman Bono explained that he takes his musical responsibilities (and the responsibilities that come with the rewards of massive success) very seriously indeed.
“There’s a real deal. A real deal, between us and our audience,” he explained, “Which is we don’t have to worry about where our kids are going to school, paying a hospital bill, paying the mortgage, in return we don’t make a crap album. Two crap albums and you’re out. That’s our deal with our audience.
“Whether its catholic guilt or whatever it is, it’s not on to have this life that we’ve been given – this amazing life – and be crap… And have a fish farm in Wales. It’s unacceptable.” [ more]
“There’s a real deal. A real deal, between us and our audience,” he explained, “Which is we don’t have to worry about where our kids are going to school, paying a hospital bill, paying the mortgage, in return we don’t make a crap album. Two crap albums and you’re out. That’s our deal with our audience.
“Whether its catholic guilt or whatever it is, it’s not on to have this life that we’ve been given – this amazing life – and be crap… And have a fish farm in Wales. It’s unacceptable.” [
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desmoinesregister.com:The Rev. Amy Miracle paused the DVD player with the image of the band U2 frozen on the TV screen.
"He's praying," she said and pointed to lead singer Bono, who was introducing the song "Where the Streets Have No Name" during a June 2001 concert in Boston. His head bowed, he incanted several barely distinguishable verses of what Miracle identified as Psalm 116. [ more]
"He's praying," she said and pointed to lead singer Bono, who was introducing the song "Where the Streets Have No Name" during a June 2001 concert in Boston. His head bowed, he incanted several barely distinguishable verses of what Miracle identified as Psalm 116. [
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Check U2exit.com to hear the Vertigo-Remix taken from the web feed of the Zane Lowe show on Radio 1.
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Montag, 4. Oktober 2004
u2.com: U2 were in London this afternoon, to receive the 'Q Icon' Award.
The annual awards ceremony of the UK music monthly Q is familiar territory for the band - they have received plenty of honours from Q readers in the past. [ more]
The annual awards ceremony of the UK music monthly Q is familiar territory for the band - they have received plenty of honours from Q readers in the past. [
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xfm.co.uk: Muse, U2, Keane and Razorlight were all honoured at today's Q magazine annual music awards. Though Franz Ferdinand only managed to pick up one gong despite their impressive four nominations.The award ceremony took place at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London’s Park Lane today (October 4) with a whole host of famous names and celebrities from the world of music turning up to present awards, accept awards and get s**tface drunk on free booze.
Highlights included Bono presenting the Merit Award to Shane McGowan of The Pogues in song form (and Shane McGowan accepting the award incomprehensibly), Muse being sarky to host Jonathon Ross while picking up the Best Live Act award, Elton John slagging off Madonna for lip-syncing live as he got his Classic Songwriter Award.
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