Topic: News
Freitag, 5. November 2004
u2.com: U2 join The Beatles, Elvis, Madonna and Bob Marley in being inducted into the new UK Music Hall of Fame next week and with a track on the official album.
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lasvegasmercury.com: There's always a concern as to whether veteran music acts can compete in the increasingly youth-oriented pop market. Adults are buying less and less music, and kids are buying mostly hip hop, mall pop and emo. Where does that leave, say, R.E.M.? Madonna? The Beastie Boys? Janet Jackson? All four of those artists released albums in the past 18 months, and all of them were considered commercial flops.
U2, turning 25 this year and arguably still the world's biggest rock act, is leaving nothing to chance. Though its 11th studio album, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, won't be available until Nov. 23, the band's PR push started in September, and is currently going full speed ahead. If Bomb bombs, it won't be from a lack of effort--this looks to be one of the most strategized rock campaigns of the year. [ more]
U2, turning 25 this year and arguably still the world's biggest rock act, is leaving nothing to chance. Though its 11th studio album, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, won't be available until Nov. 23, the band's PR push started in September, and is currently going full speed ahead. If Bomb bombs, it won't be from a lack of effort--this looks to be one of the most strategized rock campaigns of the year. [
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Mittwoch, 3. November 2004
eonline.com: Pity the television fan who doesn't like the music of U2.
After a blizzard of Apple iTunes commercials featuring the band's new single, "Vertigo," blanketed television screens nationwide in October, the band is once again turning to the tube to usher in a second wave of exposure.
To promote their new record, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, which drops Nov. 23, the Irish foursome will pull musical guest duty on NBC's Saturday Night Live later this month. And, in an even more novel strategy, the band is teaming with CBS' runaway hit CSI to will roll out tracks from the album over the next few weeks, E! Online has confirmed. [ more]
After a blizzard of Apple iTunes commercials featuring the band's new single, "Vertigo," blanketed television screens nationwide in October, the band is once again turning to the tube to usher in a second wave of exposure.
To promote their new record, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, which drops Nov. 23, the Irish foursome will pull musical guest duty on NBC's Saturday Night Live later this month. And, in an even more novel strategy, the band is teaming with CBS' runaway hit CSI to will roll out tracks from the album over the next few weeks, E! Online has confirmed. [
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icnetwork.co.uk: According to The Sun, the former Beatle will play bass guitar for the re-recording of charity track Do They Know It’s Christmas?
But he won’t be singing – he wants to leave it to the younger generation of pop stars to provide the vocals.
U2 front man Bono will be returning to sing his famous line from Band Aid 1984: “And tonight thank God it’s them, instead of you.”
Luckily for Bono, it was felt by the organisers that he was the only one who could do it justice. He is also the only star from the original line-up. [ more]
But he won’t be singing – he wants to leave it to the younger generation of pop stars to provide the vocals.
U2 front man Bono will be returning to sing his famous line from Band Aid 1984: “And tonight thank God it’s them, instead of you.”
Luckily for Bono, it was felt by the organisers that he was the only one who could do it justice. He is also the only star from the original line-up. [
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Dienstag, 2. November 2004
u2.com: ‘That post-irony purple patch shows no sign of ending.’ Q loves the ‘Bomb’.
William Burroughs, says Q reviewer Johnny Davis, would have approved of ‘How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb’. After all, it was Burroughs who said, ‘You cut up the past to find the future’ and with their new album U2 have ‘effectively sampled themselves.’ [ more]
William Burroughs, says Q reviewer Johnny Davis, would have approved of ‘How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb’. After all, it was Burroughs who said, ‘You cut up the past to find the future’ and with their new album U2 have ‘effectively sampled themselves.’ [
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Montag, 1. November 2004
teenmusic.com: U2's upcoming 13th album has topped the first major Best Album Of The Year poll in American music bible Tracks.
Magazine editor Alan Light calls U2's latest project "one of the most ambitious and powerful albums of a remarkable band's remarkable career". [ more]
Magazine editor Alan Light calls U2's latest project "one of the most ambitious and powerful albums of a remarkable band's remarkable career". [
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Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2004
femalefirst.co.uk: U2 are furious about frontman Bono's non-stop political campaigns and have urged him to cease his "self-indulgent" work.
The Irish rocker admitted guitarist The Edge was furious when he met American President George W. Bush and has told him to cease his work for AIDS causes and African famine victims, reports Britain's THE SUN newspaper. [ more]
The Irish rocker admitted guitarist The Edge was furious when he met American President George W. Bush and has told him to cease his work for AIDS causes and African famine victims, reports Britain's THE SUN newspaper. [
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atu2.com: October 31, 1961, is a day -- as many @U2 readers have suggested -- that should be considered a national holiday in Ireland. On that day, a boy was born to a family from Howth, and he would grow up to change the music industry as his country knew it. [ more]
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Samstag, 30. Oktober 2004
onlypunjab.com: U2 serves us a choice of ‘Vertigo’ (Mad Cows, Mad Humans & A Mad, Mad World) or ‘Yahweh’ on their new rock album. Funny thing is that Yahweh offers us the same choice in three stunning, in your face books.
For a limited time, thanks to Yahweh’s abundant mercy and deep pockets, two of these mind shattering books are free. Yahweh blows the lid on the most sensational story of this generation. Who is really behind the race to all out nuclear war? What do they stand to gain from the destruction of the human race? Will anyone survive? Call, email or visit Yahweh’s House online. Get the real nitty gritty radioactive dirt on Atomic Bombs and Nuclear War. [ more]
For a limited time, thanks to Yahweh’s abundant mercy and deep pockets, two of these mind shattering books are free. Yahweh blows the lid on the most sensational story of this generation. Who is really behind the race to all out nuclear war? What do they stand to gain from the destruction of the human race? Will anyone survive? Call, email or visit Yahweh’s House online. Get the real nitty gritty radioactive dirt on Atomic Bombs and Nuclear War. [
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cleveland.com: U2 has finished No. 1 in our fifth annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame poll.
Readers of The Plain Dealer and visitors to www.cleveland.com chose the Irish rock band as the most deserving nominee for induction on this year's official Rock Hall ballot. [ more]
Readers of The Plain Dealer and visitors to www.cleveland.com chose the Irish rock band as the most deserving nominee for induction on this year's official Rock Hall ballot. [
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