Reports are circulating that U2 has a tentative summer release date. The marketing machines have kicked into gear. You will start to see more U2 around the world. Next week U2 opens the "Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon" Remember the last time the boys had a appearance on late night US TV ( Dave Letterman) the marketing machine was in full gear. Rolling Stone interview gleamed the little gem of "Summer release date" Stay tuned fans we can be sure we will hear more news next week.
U2 will perform their Oscar®-nominated song, “Ordinary Love” for a global audience at the Oscars®, show producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron announced today. U2’s exclusive Oscar show performance will be the first time the band will perform the song live. The Oscars, hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, will air on Sunday, March 2, live on ABC.
John Carney
We wish we could report that the boys have finished their next album and we are off to a show within your city. Sorry cannot do that yet.
Bono and Edge will be composing a new tune for “Sing Street” an Irish film directed by Carney.
Yea John Carney who is behind Glen Hansard's award-winning 2007 movie Once and is also the co-creator of TV drama series Bachelors Walk.
Carney, Bono and Edge have been mates for a couple of years. Everyone is thrilled to finally be doing a project.
Sing Street will tell the story of Cosmo, a 14-year-old who is dealing with the stress of his parents' marriage, a drop-out brother and bullies at a new school. More to follow…
Bono sits down with the BBC for an interview and we get to peek over the shoulder.
Yea Rolling Stone and the rest of the world happened to be peering over too.
So what did we learn?
"We'll find out if we're irrelevant. I'm perfectly prepared for people to try and blow us off the stage. We're just not going to make it easy." Bono
Invisible the second song or technically the first or just a single, heck at this point who knows, we all have been waiting for the next release for what seems to be months and yet we are no closer to any actual announcement of the next studio album.
We like to call it “Lucky 13” just because we have no real title to announce at this time. “Invisible” is a bit different and yet the same for those U2 fans that have been around for a while. LA Times review was not as flattering, which is nothing new for reviewers.
Bono did say once or I am guessing he did that he was listening to Kraftwerk which we can pick up within the single.
U2 does not depart from the message of hope, peace, and faith that is one of the staple trademarks, and you can really start to dig into the idea that God has not departed the room, yet. Musically the band seems challenged to find its way into this new music world and yet bring forth their devoted fans as we all march towards 60. The single may provide us the framework for what is to come of U2 or it might be a floating balloon to which the band will see who hangs on. One thing is for sure. U2 is coming straight toward us this year with a full album that might just be released in the middle of darkness. We give it a 5 stars for different yet the same and with a splash of possibility
Its like the room just cleared of smoked
I didn’t even want the heart you broke
It’s your to keep, you just might need one
I finally found my real name
I won’t be me when you see me again
No, I won’t be my father’s son
I’m more than you know
I’m more than you see here
I’m more than you let me be
I’m more than you know
A body and a soul
You don’t see me but you will
I am not invisible
I don’t dream not as such
I don’t even think about you that much
Unless I start to think at all
Out of (ALL) those frozen days
And your frozen ways
They melt away your face like snow
I’m more than you know
I’m more than you see here
I’m more than you let me be
I’m more than you know
A body and a soul
You don’t see me but you will
I am not invisible
I am here
There is no them
There is no them
There’s Only us
There’s Only us
There is no them
There is no them
Only us
There’s only us
There is no them
There is no them
There’s only you
There’s only me
There is no them
@2014 Universal Island Records / U2
U2 Invisible is a track from the rock band's Danger Mouse-produced 13th studio album. U2 released "Invisible" on iTunes on February 3rd, 2014 making it available for free download only during one day. Bank of America promised to give 1 dollar per download for the RED cause.
Should U2 call a day after this next album ? Staying relevant has already been a center point for Bono and the boys. Clearly today's Superbowl release embarks the boys on a new journey with new direction from Guy Oseary and Live Nation.
“U2′s been on the verge of irrelevance for 20 years. We’ve dodged and we’ve dived and made some great work along the way and occasional faux pas, but this moment where we’re at, to me, feels really close to the edge of irrelevance.” Haunting words from Bono during an interview that we can be sure the marketing machines at Live Nation never wanted to see published.
Should they quit ? 360 Tour was amazing however it was only amazing because of their 30 year discography and not with standing their current album at the time "No Line On The Horizon" which failed to achieve the success that the boys had hoped for.
U2 debuts a song off its first album in five years--"Invisible," an anthemic, reflective look at lead singer Bono and the band leaving their native Ireland as young men.
"Invisible" is inspired by Bono's migration with the band to London as they tried to land a record deal nearly four decades ago, and the emotional consequences inherent to all hometown departures, its lyrics ("I'm more than you know") suggesting a man on the cusp of reinvention.
U2 marketing machines have been fast at work rebuilding the U2 of yesterday and bringing forth some new elements to grab the attention of this new digital single age. Reaching across the pond to engage Hollywood the boys created "Ordinary Love" as the the entry back to the center of the music world winning an Golden Globe and scoring a Oscar nomination you can see that U2 plans to remain relevant. Today's Super Bowl commercial can be viewed as the official start of the year of U2.
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Owning the rights to your music considered one of the most important items on a bands list to complete.
Most bands end up giving them away because of the need to produce their music and fund their projects.
Bands to often find that their catalog ends up sold a couple of different times before returning to their rightful owners.
U2 is not unlike any other band from the 80’s their masters held in the hands of others has been a challenge to get back.
Paul McGuiness in a interview with Billboard outlines the move forward to new management as a opportunity for Live Nation to provide some finances for the future of U2. “The rights to U2’s music, their masters and their copyrights, have been, with difficulty and at some costs, completely retrieved.
Paul of course has equity participation in the deal and that was due to the band agreeing on selling an equity share to Paul. U2 has all the remaining rights and they now own 100% of their masters as well as their copyrights.
Live Nation has been supportive in the transaction by financing the transaction that is sure to pay dividends to the band family long after U2’s departure from the stage.