From the War album, "Sunday Bloody Sunday" is a powerhouse in the U2 canon, performed on every major tour since its debut. It's a classic U2
The song, which reached number seven on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart in the 1980s, has now become a global plea to end the violence that threatens the world today.
U2 and their “space ship” continue to bring songs and spectacular to Europe. The band played in Milan last night to much fanfare and the usual splendor the tour has displayed so far.
The bulk of the setlist has pretty much remained the same since opening night in Barcelona. However, “Electrical Storm” didn’t make the cut in Milan, but “Party Girl” stayed in the show.
The concert was somewhat of a family affair. Bono’s daughter Eve was onstage during “Party Girl” which was fitting as it was her birthday. Bono told the crowd as he introduced his daughter that she is “not the shy one in the family” and that “she’s no longer a little girl but older and a beauty”. The audience sang “Happy Birthday” as Larry poured champagne.
It was also a “starry" night, as fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana attended the show, as did actors Woody Harrelson and Gael Garcia Bernal. Luciano Pavarotti’s widow, Nicoletta Mantovani was also there.
The memory of another entertainer who is no longer among us also took center stage. “Angel of Harlem” was dedicated to Michael Jackson, and as the song ended, it moved into “Stand By Me”.
Most U2 lyrics are pretty heavy. But with "Tomorrow," from October, Bono was truly speaking from the heart. When he was 14, his mother suffered a brain hemorrhage at her father's funeral and died a few days later. Bono would later state that the melancholy lyrics to "Tomorrow" were a description of her funeral.
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Another toe-tapper from Boy, "Out of Control" has the distinction of being the first song the guys heard played on the radio. Bono wrote the lyrics in the wee hours of the morning following his eighteenth birthday. "It was one dull morning/I woke the world with bawling/I was so sad/They were so glad . . ." The song is about being born -- or rather objecting to it -- and feeling that you have no control over your life.
The band’s 100-date 18-month world tour will see the multi-millionaires clock up an incredible 70,000 air miles in their fuel-guzzling private jet. U2360 tour also features three 390-ton stages criss-crossing the globe, along with 200 crew and backstage staff. U2’s CO2 emissions are the equivalent of the waste created by 6,500 average British or Irish people in an entire year, or equal to leaving a standard 100 watt lightbulb on for 159,000 years.
The band’s vast emissions are dozens of times bigger than Madonna’s carbon footprint on her 2006 world tour, despite her extravagant demands and 250 staff. She produced 1,635 tons in air transport.
U2’s PR agency RMP did not return a request asking if the band were buying carbon offsets to contribute towards the damage of their enormous emissions.
Carbonfootprint.com’s environment consultant Helen Roberts said: “The carbon footprint generated by U2’s 44 concerts this year is equal to carbon created by the four band members travelling the 34.125 million miles from Earth to Mars in a passenger plane.
“You also have to add the carbon emissions from the same number of concerts again next year.
“Just looking at the 44 concerts this year, the band will create enough carbon to fly all 90,000 people attending one of their Wembley concerts to Dublin. To offset this year’s carbon emissions, U2 would need to plant 20,118 trees.”
Pollution experts said U2’s 44 concerts in Europe and North America this year will produce 20,117.50 tons of CO2 emissions, unless the band unexpectedly decide to ship to equipment to the US, in which case the footprint would be 5091.41 tons.
Bono and his bandmates will generate 64.42 tons of CO2 by flying 22,037 miles to this year’s gigs in their private jet, currently stationed at Nice airport, near their Cote d’Azur holiday villas in the south of France.
Most of the carbon footprint comes from transporting the three 390-tons stages, using 3,286.60 tons of CO2, with another 916.07 tons for extra equipment. Next year they are expected to play 20 concerts in North America in June and July and 20 dates in Europe in August and September.
Yesterday’s epic Wimbledon men’s final, launched the commercial featuring the music of U2 first flickered on the screen. “Wait, is that an iPod ad?” I thought as a series of lens flares flew around my TV, behind Bono and his band of merry men. As it turns out, everyone was wrong–but not that wrong. The new video has that look and feel of an Apple ad. However its pure Blackberry.Guess what song they used for the first commercial. Enjoy and please be sure to comment. Cheers.
This peppy 1980s tune, released on the Boy album, is still as fresh today as when it debuted nearly three decades ago. The song is charged with Edge's gritty guitar riffs and a pounding drum beat by
I was on the outside when you said
You said you needed me
I was looking at myself
I was blind, I could not see
A boy tries hard to be a man
His mother takes him by his hand
If he stops to think he starts to cry
Oh why
If you walkaway, walkaway
I walkaway, walkaway...i will follow
If you walkaway, walkaway
I walkaway, walkaway...i will follow
I was on the inside
When they pulled the four walls down
I was looking through the window
I was lost, I am found
Walkaway, walkaway
I walkaway, walkaway...i will follow
If you walkaway, walkaway,
I walkaway, walkaway...i will follow
I will follow
Your eyes make a circle
I see you when I go in there
Your eyes, your eyes...
If you walkaway, walkaway
I walkaway, walkaway..i will follow
If you walkaway, walkaway
I walkaway, walkaway...i will follow
I will follow
I will follow...