Achtung Baby!

"Frank never did like Rock and Roll"

May 14th, 1998. Ol' Blue Eyes passes away.

+Bono introducing Frank Sinatra at the Grammy Awards 1994

    Frank never did like Rock and Roll
    And he's not crazy about guys wearing earrings either
    But he doesn't hold it against me
    And anyway, the feeling is not mutual

    Rock and Roll people love Frank Sinatra because Frank has got what we want:
    swagger and attitude
    he's big on attitude
    Serious attitude, bad attitude
    Frank's the Chairman of the bad
    Rock and Roll plays at being tough but this guy, well, he's the boss
    The boss of bosses
    The man
    The big bang of pop
    I'm not gonna mess with him, are you?

+Bono & The Edge: TWO SHOTS OF HAPPY, ONE SHOT OF SAD
+Sinatra & Bono - I've got you under my skin

+ 10 years after Frank Sinatra's death, daughter Nancy helps keep the legend alive
+ This American Life: Sinatra

Got the cigarettes you smoke burned into my brain

Danny Griffin

+ Emm Gryner - Almighty Love (live)

+ The Edge rte interview from march 31

The moon was naked and cold

Urban Graphics Scrawl 070 "The Opposite Sex"

[ Jools Holand + Bono: If You Wear That  Velvet Dress ]

"Achtung Baby" is my Bible

U2's Achtung Baby: Meditations on Love in the Shadow of the Fall

+ Songs for the Dumped: Volume Six - U2: So Cruel
+ U2 in San Jose 4/20/2001

u2 3d is almost here

+ u2 to star in future guitar hero title
+ U2 in 3D IMAX Film featuring Vertigo Tour [ trailer ]
+ Cannes Inside Scene: U23D
+ Book review: Achtung Baby, Meditations on Love in the Shadow of the Fall  [via]
+ Enthusiastic Review Of U2-3D

U2 - Wave of Sorrow

+ ilike@Facebook : "Wave of Sorrow is one of several rare and previously unreleased cuts which feature on the bonus audio CD of the  remastered deluxe and super deluxe Joshua Tree."

Random Fact: Evan Eachel Wood is as old as Joshua Tree.
+ Evan Rachel Wood to Get Record Deal

Bono + Rolling Stone Magazine

+ Rolling Stone: The U2 frontman sits down for our 40th anniversary to talk about the future, the Buzzcocks and reasons to compromise.

Joshua Tree 2007

U2: The Joshua Tree - Released March 9th 1987

The Joshua Tree 2007: Remastered, Re released

In 2007 The Joshua Tree, remastered, comes in four different formats including a bonus audio CD of b-sides and rarities, a live concert DVD shot in Paris in 1987 and booklets featuring liner notes from the band and unseen photography from Anton Corbijn.

+ U2: Bullet The Blue Sky (1987-11-18)
+ Interview with U2 1987

Gun

[ U2 - Happiness Is A Warm Gun ]

+ "Halo 3" Registers Biggest Day in US Entertainment History
+ Sci-Fi, Serendipity Spawn Halo 3's New Weapons
+ Bono Receives Liberty Medal

[ Your Blue Room ]

[ Passengers - Your Blue Room ]

"Your Blue Room" is one of my favorite songs....The song is based on the idea that it's a conversation of sorts. On one level it's purely carnal but on another it's a prayer. It's an incredible thing to say to your lover or your maker: "Your instructions, whatever the direction." - Bono

Please save me from this Avalanche

/ Elvis Costello - Please / 

/ Aimee Mann - Save me /

/ Leonard Cohen - Avalanche /

Bono + american idol

  ©Ruth Barohn/U2log.com

+ Bono to appear on Idol, world shortly to end
+ But will Simon be nice to Bono? Stars join would-be stars on 'Idol' fund raiser

Selections from U218 DVD Concert

AOL Music Live Concerts: Get a front-row view of U2's Vertigo world tour with highlights from the legendary band's live performance in Milan, Italy. Plus, listen to 'Window in the Skies,' their brand-new song from 'U218 Singles,' in stores November 21.

[ Tower Of Song ]

[ Tower Of Song  - Leonard Cohen, U2 ]

+ Official Page for the soundtrack
+ Martha Wainwright "Tower of Song" (Letterman)
+ Tower of Song Live
+ Leonard Cohen & Friends -- " So Long Marianne"

bono on kids, kites..

Old 2001 Gear Interview

Bono the Editor

+ The Independent: Bono, Guest Editor

+ Bush gifts: iPod from Bono

 

pictures at an exhibition

For the U2 inclined, Photos from last year's Anton Corbijn Exhibition Opening in NYC.

+ PEARL JAM A to Z AND LIVE (PART ONE: THE COVERS) - U is for U2’s Bono, and Y is for Neil Young. Rockin’ in the Free World-Pearl Jam with Bono!

[ Miss Sarajevo ]

[ Miss Sarajevo (live - Milan, July 2005 ]

Dici che il fiume
trova la via al mare
E come il fiume
giungerai a me
Oltre i confini
e le terre assetate
Dici che come fiume
come fiume
L'amore giunger
L'amore
E non so pi pregare
E nell'amore non so pi sperare
E quell'amore non so pi aspettare

English translation:

You say that the river
finds the way to the sea
And as the river
you'll come to me
Beyond the borders
and the thirsty lands
You say that as river
As river
Love will come
Love
And I cannot pray anymore
And I cannot hope in love anymore
And I cannot wait for love anymore

+ Stylus - Pasengers: Miss Sarajevo

through the zoo

"A Tour Through the Zoo With U2"
Entertainment Weekly 1992 review of first ZOOTV show.

+ Re-Recorded "Original of the Species" music video.

U2 show

I went to Church last night because in a way U2 shows are like a Church revival and a political rally all rolled up to one. The best part had to be Bono pulling up an audience member to play "Angel of Harlem" with then. You have to cherish these unscripted moments within the usual by the numbers U2 shows.

+ Set List - no Achtung Baby songs  :(
+ Bono for President
+ My evening with Bono, Larry, Edge, Adam, Ang and 20,000 of our closest friends
+ Bono paid tribute to Rosa Parks
+ Out in a few weeks: U2 - Vertigo 2005: Live From Chicago DVD (2005)
+ City of Blinding Lights live video
+ " U2's Bono and The Edge have performed a "haunting, romantic" duet with fellow Irish singer Andrea Corr for the soundtrack to a new movie by German director Wim Wenders. " via Beautiful Day   

U2 | [Please] live / mtv 1997

MTV VMA 1997 / MTV Video Music Awards
Date:     September 4th, 1997
Location:     New York, NY - Radio City Music Hall
Songs performed:     Please
Performance introduced by:     Chris Rock

//source 1, source 2, source 3, source 4, source 5

+ Bono - the RS interview 2K5 - contains 70 minute mp3 from the interview [ via ]

U2 + Relief Concert Apperances

+ U2log reports that U2 and Blige’s performance of “One” for Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast is at U2Exit.com

+ U2, Coldplay, Pearl Jam Added To MTV Disaster-Relief Show

+ Edge is giving back

+ "Coldplay stealing from U2? Never"

[ Love is Blindness ]

The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

[ "Love is Blindness" -  Trespassers William ]

U2 - San Diego March 28, 2005 Audio

U2 - San Diego March 28, 2005   - U2 Tours - Show Details

MP3 mirrors: Uno , dos, tres, Catorce.

+ Rumor: DVD Box Set on the Way?

U2’s Vertigo Tour starts this week

Sneak preview of U2’s Vertigo Tour

The intro music for the set was The Arcade Fire’s ‘Wake Up’ and at the end of the song, Bono’s voice was heard saying ‘everyone’ loudly, over and over again. The the lights slammed down and the intro of ‘City of Blinding Lights’ chimed through the hall.

U2 warms up with free Los Angeles concert

According to reports from the performance, U2 opened with "City of Blinding Lights," followed by "The Electric Co.," "An Cat Dubh/Into the Heart," "Beautiful Day," "Miracle Drug," "Sometimes You Can't Make it On Your Own" and "Love and Peace or Else."

Other songs on the setlist included "Elevation," "Stuck In a Moment," "Yaweh," "Bullet the Blue Sky," "Running to Stand Still," "Zoo Station," "The Fly" and "Vertigo."

The five-song encore included "Pride (In the Name of Love)," "Where the Streets Have No Name," "One," "All Because Of You" and "40.

Oh please retire "Where the Streets Have No Name" and "Bullet the Blue Sky". Gimmie a break already. No Zoorpa songs either. bleh.

+ U2 Again Looks to Reach New Heights, as 'Vertigo' Tour Opens
+ Lines Notes: What's your first U2 memory?
+ U2 perform at the RRHOF ( audio )

U2 + Rock + Roll + Hall of Famers

+ Rock + Roll Hall of Fame U2 Page
+ Rolling Stone: Rock giants honored in New York
+ U2 stars enter rock Hall of Fame
+ On this day in History - Mar. 09 - 1987 - Rock band U2 release the classic album The Joshua Tree.
+ audio from induction

Esquire - best band battle royale

Esquire: Best Band In The World Poll