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Unos, Dos, Tres, Catorce – U2 Topped UK Singles Chart This Day 20 Years Ago With Their Red-Hot Rocker ‘VERTIGO’

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Top singles from the past

14 November 2024

Rock giants U2 occupied the top seat of the UK Charts 20 years ago today, on
14 November 2004 with probably their hottest rocker ever VERTIGO. It was one
of the singles from their 11th studio LP How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb of
which a deluxe 20-anniversary edition will come out next week, November 22.

The song’s opening words ‘Unos, dos, tres, catorce‘ translate in English to
‘some, two, three, fourteen‘. When asked about this oddity in an interview
for Rolling Stone, Bono replied “there may have been some alcohol involved”.

Unos, dos, tres, catorce
Turn it up loud, captain

Hello, hello (hola)
I’m at a place called Vertigo (¿dónde está?)
It’s everything I wish I didn’t know
Except you give me something
I can feel, feel

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U2 – Hear Their 20-Year Old Previously Unreleased Banger ‘HAPPINESS’ Here

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26 October 2024

Irish superstars U2 celebrate the 20th anniversary (released 22 Nov 2004)
of their 11th LP How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb with a deluxe reissue
edition (what else?) simply named How To Re-Assemble An Atomic Bomb. More
info here.

A couple of previously unreleased tracks will show up,
like this pepped-up banger, called HAPPINESS.

Album


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Number One Albums This Day 13 October… Years Ago

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13 October 2024

Band: U2

Album: UNFORGETTABLE FIRE
Their 4th longplayer.

No 1 in the UK this day 40 years ago.


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Band: THE POLICE

Album: REGGATTA DE BLANC
Their 2nd LP.

No 1 in the UK this day 45 years ago.


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Band: THE ROLLING STONES

Album: GOATS HEAD SOUP
Their 11th one.

No. 1 in the US this day in 1973.


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4 Number One Singles This Day 9 October… Years Ago

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9 October 2024

Band: U2

Single: DESIRE (1988)
Album: Rattle And Hum

Their 12th single and first UK No. 1
On 9 October 1988
(more than 83 million
streams on Spotify)


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Artist: ROD STEWART

Single: MAGGIE MAY
Album: Every Picture Tells A Story

No. 1 in the UK
On 9 October 1971
(almost 350 million
streams on Spotify)

The late legendary DJ John Peel
is in this video too, on stage.

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Band: THE BEATLES

Single: YESTERDAY
Album: Help!

Topped the US Charts
on 9 October 1965
(more than 693 million
streams on Spotify)

Artist: RAY CHARLES

Single: HIT THE ROAD JACK
No 1 in the US
on 9 October 1961
(more than 431 million
streams on Spotify)

27 March 1987 – U2 On A Roof Where The Streets Have No Name 37 Years Ago

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27 March 2024

Global rock stars U2 released their piece de resistance The Joshua Tree on 9 March 1987.

One of the sublime hit singles on the LP was WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME.
A video clip for the song was shot on the roof of a building in Los Angeles, 18 days after the album launch, on 27 March, 37 years ago today. The event drew thousands of people cheering in the nameless streets.

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 audience became too big to handle.
Yet the clip won the Best Video Grammy Award afterward.

The masterstroke peaked at #11 in the US, #4 in the UK,
and topped the Charts in Ireland and New Zealand.

Relive the euphoric moments.

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9 March 1987 – U2 Released Their Magnum Opus ‘THE JOSHUA TREE’ This Day 37 Years Ago

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9 March 2024

On 9 March 1987 – 37 years ago today – U2 released their worldwide magnum opus
THE JOSHUA TREE. The Irish rockers fifth album, produced by Daniel Lanois and Brian
Eno, made them 24 Carat superstars all over the planet. Influenced by their American
tour experiences, relating literature and Uncle Sam’s politics and probably because of
their commercial and competitive desire to confirm their already huge status in the U.S.
of A., the band chose America as a central theme for the record.

Superb Singles: I Still Haven’t Found What I Am Looking For /
Where The Streets Have No Name / With Or Without You

– I STILL HAVEN’T FOUND WHAT I’M LOOKING FOR –

– WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME –

– WITH OR WITHOUT YOU –

Superb Album


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