Amazing Artwork! U2
Band: U2
Artwork: Cover of Rattle And Hum. The longplayer topped
the US Albums Chart on 12 November 1988, today 33 years ago.
Full album on Spotify…
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U2
U2 Scored No 1 Hit In The UK 30 Years Ago Today With Stunning Single ‘THE FLY’
Top singles from the past
2 November 2021
Band: U2
Active: Since 1976 / 14 studio albums so far
Classic cracker: THE FLY
Score: Topped the UK Single Charts on
2 November 19914 – 30 years ago today
Album: Achtung Baby
Fly high, Bono…
U2: Facebook
Happy 60 To U2’s Guitar Wizard THE EDGE
8 August 2021
David Howell Evans – better know as The Edge – was born
on 8 August 1961 in London, UK. Happy 60 to the brilliant
guitarist who defined the electrifying sound of mega stars U2 .
He moved with his family to Dublin, Ireland at the age of 2.
During his triumphant career, he also played with big
shots like Johnny Cash, B.B. King, Tina Turner en Ron Wood.
Anecdote: he’s the proud owner of 200 guitars.
The Edge: “By referencing our past, by allowing ourselves to sound
like the ‘old U2’—the Eighties U2—we’re not in a box anymore. Now
we’re free to sound any way we please. It’s very liberating.”
Three big EDGE moments…
– PRIDE (In The Name Of Love) –
– WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME –
– OUT OF CONTROL –
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(Brussels 2017 – Photo by Turn Up The Volume)
One Live Shot A Day Turns Summer… Into A Holiday
Band: U2
Song: OUT OF CONTROL
Released as a single in 1979,
and featured on their 1980
debut LP Boy
Where: Belfast, Ireland
When: 1981
While The Edge is brilliant, Bono goes out of control…
U2: Facebook
On The Roof In Los Angeles With U2 This Day In 1987
27 March 2021
Band: U2
Single: WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME (1987)
Score: #1 in Ireland and New-Zealand, #4 in the UK
and #13 in the US
Album: The Joshua Three
The clip for the song, unquestionably inspired by The Beatles‘ legendary roof
performance in London in 1969, was shot on the roof of a store in downtown
Los Angeles (no idea why they didn’t go to New York, that’s THE city where the
streets have no names) on 27 March 1987. The shoot was ended by the police
when the traffic got stuck as hundreds of enthusiastic passers-by blocked the
streets. Rock ‘n’ roll!!
Let’s hit the roof…
U2: Facebook
Back In Time With ALICE COOPER – U2 – KURT VILE
Great albums from the past celebrating a birthday…
– LOVE IT TO DEATH – ALICE COOPER – third LP
Released: 9 March 1971 – 50 years ago today
Key track: I’m Eighteen
Full album…
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– THE JOSHUA THREE – U2 – 5th LP
Released: 9 March 1987 – 34 years ago today
Key tracks: Where the Streets Have No Name / I Still Haven’t
Found What I’m Looking For / With or Without You
Full album…
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– SMOKE RING FOR MY HALO – KURT VILE – 4th LP
Released: 8 March 2011 – 10 years ago yesterday
Key track: Baby’s Arms
Full album…
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To Hell With Blue Mondays – Here’s… THE EDGE
4 January 2021
OMG! I miss live music so much. For years a great and important piece of my life took/takes place in concert venues, small and big, enjoying the ecstatic, buzzing,
boosting, mind-boggling and out-of-control experience of a gig. In the past years,
I saw a yearly average of 200 artists doing their thing on a stage. In 2020 I was at
3 concerts, yes, just 3 !!! And we all know why. Fuck that awful coronavirus.
And so far, 2021 doesn’t look hopeful yet.
Fingers crossed. Bring on the vaccine!
I need my shots of live adrenaline.
I want to go out-of-control again!
Capice?
Here comes… THE EDGE
This Day In 2004 No 1 On UK Singles Chart – UNOS, DOS, TRES, CATORCE
15 November 2020
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
U2: Website
New Beginning New Hope For The Future – THREE ANTHEMS TO CELEBRATE
Lust For Life by IGGY POP
I got a lust for life
Lust for life
I got a lust for life
Lust for life
People Have The Power by PATTI SMITH
The people have the power
To redeem the work of fools…
Pride (The Name Of Love) by U2
Free at last, they took your life
They could not take your pride
One Festival Track A Day Turns Summer Into Holiday – U2 At LIVE AID 1985
Memorable festival flashes to heal this summer’s ‘no festivals’ pain…
12 July 2020
On 13th July 1985, 35 years ago, massive concert event LIVE AID was organized
by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for the immensely dramatic Ethiopian
famine.
Announced as the ‘global jukebox’, the marathon was held simultaneously
at Wembley Stadium in London for 72,000 people, and at John F. Kennedy
Stadium in Philadelphia with a crowd of 89,500. And an audience of 1.9 billion
TV viewers across 150 nations, that’s nearly 40% of the world population!
One of the most memorable performances was by U2.
The Irish rockers – read Bono – stunned Wembley and
the whole wide world with epic renditions of Sunday
Bloody Sunday and Bad. Relive it here…
– BAD –
– SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY –
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