Before they were signed, U2 toured Ireland to promote their debut album Boy Only coming around once every four years, 29 February is a date to remember. Unless you are U2, whose leap day 40 years ago ...
Recording the second album is a difficult prospect for most bands. Conventional wisdom says you have your entire life to write the first one. Then, between soundchecks and hotel rooms, you cobble ...
It may seem arbitrary to split U2's greatest-hits project into decades—this is the first of two such collections, with the other coming out later—but it's fitting. It divides the two U2s. The first U2 ...
EXACTLY 21 years ago today (Wednesday), an up-and-coming young Irish band strangely named after a German war plane came to play in Gorey. They were called U2. Friday, August 15, 1980, was the day that ...
The Eighties were only five days old when U2 appeared on Ireland’s Late Late Show to perform their new song “Stories for Boys.” The band’s debut LP, Boy, wouldn’t hit stores for another 10 months, and ...
Only coming around once every four years, 29 February is a date to remember. Unless you are U2, whose leap day 40 years ago was one to forget. In the decades since, they have sold 175m records and ...