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U2 have released 15 studio albums and are one of the world's best-selling music artists, having sold an estimated 150–170 million records worldwide. [1] They have won 22 Grammy Awards—the most of any band—and in 2005, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility.
Francis Gary Powers (August 17, 1929 – August 1, 1977) was an American pilot who served as a United States Air Force officer and a CIA employee. Powers is best known for his involvement in the 1960 U-2 incident, when he was shot down while flying a secret CIA spying mission over the Soviet Union.
In 2015, the Steven Spielberg feature film Bridge of Spies was released, which dramatized James B. Donovan (Tom Hanks [63])'s negotiations for Powers's release, but took certain liberties with what really happened.
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 ...
26 September: U2 rehearse "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" with the New Voices of Freedom in a Harlem church, footage of which later appears in the documentary film Rattle and Hum. [73] October: Eamon Dunphy's official biography of the band, Unforgettable Fire: The Definitive Biography of U2 is published. [74]
Laurence Joseph Mullen Jr. (/ ˈ m ʌ l ə n /; born 31 October 1961) is an Irish musician, best known as the drummer and co-founder of the rock band U2. [1] A member of the band since its inception, he has recorded 15 studio albums with U2.
Larry Mullen Jr., the drummer for U2, has revealed he was diagnosed with a condition known as dyscalculia, which affects his ability to deal with numbers and math.
Based on the 1960 U2 spy-plane incident, Bridge of Spies stars Tom Hanks as a ramrod-noble insurance salesman drafted by the U.S. government to defend a captured Russian spy (an excellent Mark ...