17 March 2023
On the BB Radio series 2 of artists playing covers in the studio’s piano-room
U2‘s main men Bono and The Edge were the latest guests. As ABBA fans
for years they picked the Swedish pop stars’ 1975 hit SOS to perform, backed
by a silent orchestra.
The Edge: “We found a Johnny Cash angle on the song.”
Here’s their intimate, acoustic version. Lovely.
ABBA
The Edge reacts to drummer Larry Mullen Jr. who said in
an recent interview that U2 turned into a dictatorship.
Global rock stars U2 released their magnum opus
The Joshua Tree 36 years ago today, on 9 March 1987.
One of the sublime hit singles on it was WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME.
A video clip for the song was shot on a roof in Los Angeles drawing thousands
of people cheering.
U2 played an 8-song set with 4 versions of the single. Eventually, the police ordered
the band and their crew to stop and leave as the crowd became to big to handle.
Relive the euphoria at play.
Reveries for the laziest day of the week
5 March 2023
Mega stars U2 release a new album, named SONGS OF SURRENDER
on 17 March. An album with 40 reworked/reimagining tracks of their
glorious past.
The Edge about the project: “Music allows you to time travel, and we became
curious to find out what it would be like to bring our early songs back with us to
the present day and give them the benefit, or otherwise, of a 21st-century
reimagining.”
One of the revisited songs is their huge hit BEAUTIFUL DAY
from their 2000 album All That You Can’t Leave Behind.
It sounds less euphoric and elated than the original version but its
tender and stripped treatment makes this rework quite beautiful.
Enjoy.
Coming Up
12 January 2023
Mega stars U2 release a new album, named SONGS OF SURRENDER
on 17 March. An album with 40 reworked/reimagining tracks of their
glorious past.
Here’s a taster with one of their best songs ever.
The Edge about the project: “Music allows you to time travel, and we became curious to find out what it would be like to bring our early songs back with us to the present day and give them the benefit, or otherwise, of a 21st-century reimagining.”
Trailer for the album.
RATTLE AND HUM (1988)
U2 documentary of their 1987
breakthrough tour of North America.
The trailer…
The docu includes the phenomenal live version of
their stunning tribute to Martin Luther King.
Top singles from the past
9 August 2022
35 years ago today Irish rock idols U2 topped the US Singles Chart,
their 2nd numero uno in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
It was/is a pure pop pearl from their 5th LP The Joshua Tree
Let’s go to Las Vegas.
Happy birthday to The Edge who
celebrated his 61st birthday yesterday.
Works faster than caffeine
Every time I saw/see this live version of U2‘s PRIDE (IN THE NAME OF LOVE)
filmed in Denver, Colorado in 1987 when the Irish heroes were busy conquering
America, shivers roll down my spine
The elated crowd, The Edge‘s riffs, Bono‘s entertaining tricks, the ode to MLK,
the black and white footage, it all turns this performance into a truly
epic happening.
Early morning, April four
A shot rings out in the Memphis sky
Free at last, they took your life
They could not take your pride
In the name of love
What more in the name of love?
Oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh, oh-oh-oh
All together now…
U2: Facebook
Works faster than caffeine
Why The Edge is a guitar virtuoso
and Bono a show-front-man…
TURN UP THE VOLUME 