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With a sense of musical stagnation, Bono hinted at changes to come during a 30 December 1989 concert near the end of the tour; before a hometown crowd in Dublin, he said on stage that it was "the end of something for U2" and that they had to "go away and ... just dream it all up again". [128] [129]
5 April: U2 announce "To Love and Only Love – Deep Dives and B-Sides", a series of 12 remastered singles to be digitally re-released with their original B-sides and remixes. [206] 30 August: U2 release a five-song live EP taken from an August 1993 performance called ZOO TV – Live in Dublin 1993. [207]
U2 won Billboard Touring Awards for Top Tour and Top Draw of 2010 and 2011, and for Top Boxscore at a single venue in 2009 for shows at Croke Park in Dublin. A 2009 show at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California was filmed for the concert video U2360° at the Rose Bowl and was streamed live over YouTube ; the concert set a new US attendance ...
U2 performs "City of Blinding Lights" in their home town of Dublin in June 2005. Prior to the band taking the stage, "Wake Up" by Canadian rock band Arcade Fire was played as introduction music. [10] The arena shows of the first and third legs usually began with the same trio of songs: "City of Blinding Lights", "Vertigo", and "Elevation".
In the late 2000s, U2 embarked on the “U2 360” tour, so named because the band was playing stadiums in an in-the-round format. This weekend, the quartet kicks off a nearly three-month ...
Bono has won numerous awards with U2, including 22 Grammy Awards [10] [219] and two Golden Globe Awards for Best Original Song (for "The Hands That Built America" in 2003 and "Ordinary Love" in 2014). [220] [221] In 2005, Bono was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of U2, in the group's first year of eligibility. [222]
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 ...
U2 began its public performance life in small venues in Dublin in 1977, occasionally playing at other venues elsewhere in Ireland. In December 1979, they performed their first concerts outside Ireland, in London, and in 1980 began extensive touring across the British Isles, developing a following. Their debut album Boy was released in 1980.