Nine months after U2 wrapped its 40-date residency at Sphere, the veteran Irish rock band is back at the dome-shaped venue just off the Las Vegas Strip. Well, sort of. “V-U2” is a new concert movie ...
In 1969, London witnessed the last concert of the Beatles; in 1987, Los Angeles experienced the calculated conquest of U2.
U2 drummer Larry Mullen Jr. has sung his family’s praises through the years. “I’m absolutely rubbish at being a rock star,” Mullen Jr. said in 2013, per the Irish Daily Mail. “I’m one of the worst ...
U2 have long been extremists and innovators in the concert space, so they were a natural pick to give the first performances at Las Vegas’ innovative new venue, Sphere. They brought the U2:UV Achtung ...
U2 had started working on Horizon in 2006 with producer Rick Rubin, but the group soon abandoned those sessions and reconvened in May 2007 with longtime collaborators Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois.
One danger of artistic longevity is repetition. Then there’s the problem of self-parody. In the case of U2, a band with 13 documented and doted-upon studio albums across 34 years, how does an artist ...
U2 is making Grammy history again. The Irish rockers will perform at the 2024 Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 4, delivering the first-ever broadcast performance from the Las Vegas Sphere, where the band ...
U2 took to the streets of New York to launch "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" in 2004. WireImage for Interscope Records They still hadn’t found what they were looking for. So a desperate U2 made a ...
What to do after reviving the 1980s? How about resurrecting the 1990s? That’s one way to look at U2’s recently launched Experience + Innocence tour, which the veteran Irish band brought to the Forum ...
It's as if 2004's "Vertigo" broke something; since then — with "Get On Your Boots" off No Line On The Horizon and "The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone)" off Songs Of Innocence and now "The Blackout" off Songs ...