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U2 Saves Day for Sex Abuse Charityhollywood.comIrish rock group U2, along with their manager Paul McGuinness, donated $46,360 to the Irish sex abuse charity One in Four, which was facing closure because of a funding crisis, Reuters reports. Charity officials said the donation would keep the support group, which campaigns on behalf of people who were sexually abused as children, operational for the time being. "The members of U2 and their manager have offered to provide to One in Four 40,000 euros ($46,360) to enable this wonderful organization to continue its vital and important work for a further month, while the government gets it together to do the right thing," the group's management said in a statement.

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EOnline.comWALK ON: Bono to present commencement speech at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia May 17. The U2 frontman will also receive an honorary degree.

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Bono: Live Aid 2 Would Be Too Expensive U2 star Bono has denied reports his rock group will headline a Live Aid 2 event, because the concert would not raise enough money to help struggling nations. Reports of a second Live Aid have been in circulation ever since the original 1985 megashow, and the latest rumors have taken flight following new claims in the British press. But Bono has poured scorn on the reports, insisting a second Live Aid would fail to serve a purpose. He says, "We would love to be talking about Live Aid 2, but the sums of money we are dealing with are in the billions of euros, not the millions. It would help, but not fix the problem." The original Live Aid concerts in London and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, raised an estimated $100 million to fight hunger in Ethiopia. Bono was meeting with European leaders in Dublin yesterday to discuss the plight of struggling African countries and the need for support.http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/#1

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PREPARE FOR THE BOOTLEG: An unfinished copy of U2 's upcoming CD disappearing Tuesday from a photo shoot with the band in the south of France. The album isn't expected in stores until November.

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U2'S MASTER CD IS SNATCHED

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IT was far from a "Beautiful Day" for U2 Tuesday afternoon when a master copy of their upcoming record was stolen from a photo shoot in Nice. Guitarist The Edge had brought along the master of the CD ? working title, "Vertigo," and due out in November ? to a photo shoot for the album cover so the band could listen to it while they posed. But at some point during the shoot, someone snatched the CD out of the player and ran off with it. On the band's Web site, The Edge reports: "A large slice of two years' work lifted via a piece of round plastic. It doesn't seem credible but that's what's just happened to us . . . and it was my CD." Although there are other copies, band members fear it will end up on the Internet before it's shipped to stores. "The recording of this album has been going so well," Paul McGuinness of Principle Management told the Web site. "The band is so excited about its release. It would be a shame if unfinished work fell into the wrong hands." Universal Music Group CEO Lucian Grainge added: "As the missing CD is our property, we're very keen to find it as soon as possible and the French police are being extremely helpful in this regard."

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popbitch.comU2 have approached Scissor Sisters to support them on their as yet untitled tour next year. Bono was at Moma in New York last week watching their gig.

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EOnline.com RATTLE AND HUM: U2 's as-yet-untitled studio album to be released internationall Nov. 22 and a day later in North America. The first single, "Vertigo," will hit radio airwaves in late September.

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U2 Will Release New Album As Plannedimdb.comThe release of U2's new album is going ahead as planned - despite the theft of a CD containing new tracks last month. The band, who panicked when a copy of their new songs went missing during a photo session in Nice, France, will release the still-as-yet-untitled LP as scheduled on November 23 - while their single "Vertigo" will be played on the radio from September. U2 were prepared to rush through the release of the album after the CD disappeared. Frontman Bono said at the time, "If it is on the internet this week, we will release it immediately as a legal download on iTunes, and get hard copies into the shops by the end of the month. It would be a real pity. It would screw up years of work and months of planning, not to mention f***ing up our holidays. But once it's out, it's out."

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Achtung, Baby! New U2 Release SetEOnline.comby Josh GrossbergAug 23, 2004, 10:00 AM PTNov. 23 is going to be a beautiful day for U2 fans.Bono and the boys have announced plans to release their still untitled album in the U.S. then, a day after it drops in the U.K. The first single, "Vertigo," will hit radio on Sept. 24, while a video for the song will debut in October.U2's 11th studio album, produced by Steve Lillywhite, is the follow-up to their multiple Grammy-winning 2000 disc, All That You Can Leave Behind. Besides "Vertigo," other song titles rumored to be on the Irish rockers' set include "Tough" and "Full Metal Jacket."The band has been previewing tracks to select music industry types, and the buzz has been tremendous. Time magazine's Josh Tyrangiel says the new CD "is just full of confident, expansive guitar rock from the masters of the form. All the old tricks--the Edge's echoing guitar notes,Larry Mullen Jr.'s martial snare--still work...[bono] has enormous assuredness, and the occasional cracks in his voice make the bad-relationship songs (and, as always, there are quite a few) darker and more dramatic."U2 fan site @U2 quotes VH1 Senior Vice President Bill Flanagan saying, "It's the best album they have ever done. It's going to knock [listeners] out." And British rock writer Neil McCormick tells Hot Press magazine that "Vertigo" "is like the early U2 pumped up in the 21st century, a really exciting record."The album's release will apparently not be impacted by the disappearance of early version of the album. A compact disc containing unmixed versions of the tracks went missing from a recording studio in Nice, France, in July, prompting worries that the songs could be leaked to the Internet, potentially costing the quartet, arguably the most popular rock band in the world, and its label, Interscope, millions in lost revenue.With French investigators still not finding what they're looking for, Bono told London's Daily Telegraph that the group may try and head off such a disastrous leak by making the album available early as a legal download on Apple's iTunes should file-swappers get their hands on it."If it is on the Internet this week, we will release it immediately as a legal download on iTunes, and get hard copies into the shops by the end of the month," the singer said. "It would be a real pity. It would screw up years of work and months of planning, not to mention f--king up our holidays. But once it's out. It's out."A cursory scan of the major music-swapping sites haven't turned up any of the MIA tracks.For now, the album will be on shelves--and iTunes--in November, with a U.S. tour slated for the spring.

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UNVEILED: U2 has revealed the names of six of the 11 tracks on its as-yet-untitled album, due Nov. 23, reports Billboard. This includes the first single, "Vertigo," scheduled for radio play later this month. Other songs include "A Man and a Woman," "Crumbs From Your Table," "Yahweh," "City of Blinding Lights" and "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own." The new CD is the follow-up to 2000's All That You Can't Leave Behind, which has sold more than 4 million copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan. A world tour is expected to launch early next year.

 

 

If they go on tour, I am so going.

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GEEZERS ALREADY? Rockers U2 join The Pretenders and several other bands on the 2005 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ballot. A ceremony honoring the eventual inductees will stage next year in New York City.

 

ACHTUNG BABY! U2 meanwhile unveiling the title of their new album, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, which hits stores on Nov. 23.

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the first single "Vertigo" will start appearing on the radio on September 24th

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MOST RECOGNIZED MUSICIANS

Topping the list of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees were Bono and the boys of U2, who've been at work on their 11th studio album, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (due Nov. 23). But the real bombshell: The list of nominees, including the Pretenders, Buddy Guy and Conway Twitty, for the first time recognized a rapper, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five.

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EOnline.com ATOMIC TRACK: U2's first single off its upcoming album, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, expected to debut this week in the top 20 of Billboard 's Modern Rock Tracks chart after just three days on the radio. The band also announced the track listing for its new disc, due out Nov. 23.

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I keep reading about this song "Vertigo" ..about how good it is...I have yet to hear it on my local station. Is this the first single??? Has anyone heard it yet? What is it like..is it as good as say "Beautiful Day" ..their last comeback single?

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For the casual fan, the best comparison of Vertigo is more like Elevation than Beautiful Day. It's a dirty, fun rock song that harkens back to the sound of their first album, Boy. The response I've been reading on music site message boards is that people love the song and the energy of the band. Hope that helps.

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Great. Thanks.Although I luved Beautiful Day's catchy,happy feel...I'm from the old school that U2's "greatest" songs were from the old days--"Gloria","New Year's Day", Sunday Bloody Sunday,etc.

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EOnline.com BEAUTIFUL DAY: Apple Computer Inc. and U2 expected to announce next week that they have inked a deal to sell custom iPods, according to Billboard. The iPods will reportedly come preloaded with the rockers' new album, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, set to be released Nov. 23.

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JOINED: U2 and Apple Computer are expected to announce that they have signed a deal to sell custom iPods preloaded with the Irish rock band's upcoming album How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (due Nov. 23 from Interscope Records), reports Billboard. Reps for the band as well as Apple declined comment. U2's new single "Vertigo" is featured in current TV ads for the iPod. The track is currently No. 2 on Billboard's airplay-based Modern Rock Tracks chart, and No. 44 on the Hot 100, which is based on both retail sales and radio airplay.

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EOnline.com BEAUTIFUL DAY: Bono announcing that a briefcase containing notes and lyrics for U2's 1981 album, October, has been returned, 23 years after it was stolen at a concert in Portland, Oregon.

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Bono Finds What He Was Looking For

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by Josh Grossberg

Oct 22, 2004, 10:30 AM PT

 

It was an October surprise for U2.

 

Lead singer Bono confirmed Wednesday that a long-lost briefcase full of notes and lyrics gone missing after an Oregon concert nearly 25 years ago has been returned.

 

Bono said that two fans had returned the case, stolen following a Portland gig in 1981. He made the annoucement at a speaking engagement before the World Affairs Council of Oregon and hailed their return as "an act of grace," per a report in the Oregonian.

 

Calls to Universal Music Group, U2's record company, were not immediately returned Friday.

 

The briefcase contained a black binder, photos, documents and a blue spiral notebook featuring lyrics and song title ideas intended for U2's sophomore album, October. The case was swiped--presumably by a bunch of groupies who had been flirting with the band--following a concert on March 22, 1981.

 

The theft "devastated" the crooner, according to Eamon Dunphy's U2 biography, Unforgettable Fire.

 

"It wasn't the money, the passport, the personal knick-knacks. It was the words he had written. And the breach of trust."

 

Bono never forgot the stolen briefcase. When U2 came back to Portland for a show two years later, Bono asked the crowd if anyone had seen his stuff. And in 2001, he mentioned it again during a show at the Rose Garden arena.

 

Talk about all that you can't leave behind.

 

Bono in turn was forced to rewrite all the lyrics. U2 always called the October sessions their worst recording experience; the album didn't spawn any huge hits and is generally considered one of the band's weakest efforts.

 

The notes were returned by Cindy Harris, 44, who said she found the tattered brown briefcase in an attic in a rental house in Tacoma, Washington, back in 1983. She had always known that the case had once belonged to Bono and the boys, but she hadn't realized it had been stolen until recently. In fact, her husband wound up using the briefcase for work, and she stuck the contents in a plastic bag for safekeeping.

 

"I had started a family, and I thought it would be impossible to ever get a hold of them and let them know that I have these items," Harris told the Oregonian.

 

According to the newspaper account, last October Harris mentioned she had found some U2 memorabilia in an email to her friend Danielle Rheaume of Vancouver.

 

Rheaume, a U2 fanatic, thought her pal might have stumbled upon the missing lyrics, which had attained legendary status among band fans. Once Harris showed Rheaume the goods--including a 70-page notebook containing a work visa bearing Bono's given name, Paul Hewson, as well as notes for future hits like "Sunday Bloody Sunday"--Rheaume lauched a one-woman crusade to have them returned.

 

After locking the items away in a safe, Rheaume spent the better part of a year contacting the jet-setting group's management firm trying to set up a meeting.

 

Finally, her chance came when Bono--who's been lobbying industrial nations to forgive Third World debt and fight the AIDS pandemic ravaging Africa--committed to giving a lecture at the World Affairs Council in Oregon.

 

With the blessing of the rock star's reps, Rheaume and Harris met Bono in the lobby of Portland's Benson Hotel on Wednesday and reunited him with his stuff. Bono gave the fans some primo seats his speech, during which he thanked them.

 

But just because the long-MIA October lyrics turned, doesn't mean the band has found everything it's been looking for.

 

Last summer, U2 guitarist the Edge revealed that someone had swiped a CD of unfinished tracks for band's new album, How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, from a mixing studio in Nice, France.

 

Band members were worried the tunes might pop up on the Web, forcing them to move up album's release date and causing havoc with their promotional schedule.

 

So far, the songs have yet to make an appearance. Maybe in 20-some years?

 

How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, U2's 11th studio record, hits stores on Nov. 23. It will also be available in a special-edition black iPod as part of a promotional deal the band has struck with Apple and its iTunes Music Store.

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U2 To Tour in 2005 ... But Don't Buy Tickets Yet!

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(U2.com) -- Paul McGuinness has confirmed that U2 will tour next year but urged fans not to buy tickets until details are confirmed.

 

U2 manager Paul McGuinness today confirmed that the band will set out on a major tour next year but urged the band's fans not to part with any money for concert tickets until the tour details are confirmed.

 

An announcement is expected in the coming months. Some web sites are currently offering tickets for speculative dates.

 

"We are still very much in the planning stages of our tour for next year which will visit the US, Canada, Europe, Japan and Australia, and the band is really looking forward to getting out on the road." said McGuinness today.

 

"As soon as we have finalised the plans, the tour will be announced on U2.Com as usual and purchase instructions will be clearly available. Nothing is confirmed until the official tour announcement, no tickets will be on sale until after this time."

 

U2's forthcoming album, 'How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb', will be released by Universal Island Records on 22nd November.

 

'Vertigo', the first single from the album, is currently Number 1 on the download chart and hits shops on 8th November.

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EOnline.com SHINY NEW TOY: Apple rolling out the new iPod Photo Tuesday, which features color screens that allow users to view and share photos and slideshows. The U2 Special Edition iPod, a black model with a red click wheel debuts next month.

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"CSI" Investigates New U2

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by Charlie Amter

Nov 2, 2004, 5:45 PM PT

 

Pity the television fan who doesn't like the music of U2.

 

After a blizzard of Apple iTunes commercials featuring the band's new single, "Vertigo," blanketed television screens nationwide in October, the band is once again turning to the tube to usher in a second wave of exposure.

 

To promote their new record, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, which drops Nov. 23, the Irish foursome will pull musical guest duty on NBC's Saturday Night Live later this month. And, in an even more novel strategy, the band is teaming with CBS' runaway hit CSI to will roll out tracks from the album over the next few weeks, E! Online has confirmed.

 

A snippet of "Vertigo" played in last week's CSI , while the show's 100th episode on Nov. 18 will feature a special remix of the single. Another track, to be determined by the band, will appear on the Nov. 25 episode.

 

Meanwhile, in a sign that the band is reaching out to a different demo, a mix of the new song "Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own" is slated to air during the Nov. 25 episode of Fox's The O.C..

 

While the soundtracks to many TV shows feature modern rock acts to cross-promote the music and sell the show's hipness (see: The O.C., Felicity and even The West Wing), never has a band of U2's caliber taken advantage of the tactic.

 

Precious few bands wield enough clout to cherry-pick shows for their promotional purposes, especially when the show of choice is the top-rated on television and will air during the high-stakes November sweeps.

 

"I think that U2 and their manager Paul McGuinness have been extremely smart," says music supervisor G. Marq Roswell of 35 Sound. "The show [CSI ] is a proven success and this is a way to expose them to an entirely different demographic that may or may not be aware of their new release."

 

Roswell, who has worked as a music supervisor on films like Auto Focus and Spy Game, thinks U2 knew exactly what it was doing when the band agreed to license its music to CBS' number one drama.

 

"When a group like U2, who are so notoriously careful with licensing their music, agrees to rollout three tracks on a show like CSI, that's huge," he says. "That's the McGuinness way. As a manager, he's always been extremely smart in realizing how the music business is changing--and I would have to say he's usually been right about it."

 

Roswell says U.S. television viewers can expect to see more bands attempting to promote their new records via partnerships with television shows in the future.

 

"Managers are starting to realize that TV has such a huge audience," he says. "They know the demographics of the shows, and they see immediate sales spikes right after the show airs whether it is CSI or even a WB series."

 

Aside from the TV blitz for the band's old media fans, U2 is also using the Internet in hopes of enticing some younger music fans who may not be down with the lads from across the pond.

 

Last week, the band announced it has teamed with Apple to release a special-edition black iPod . "Vertigo" has been available on Apple's iTunes Music Store for weeks and is currently the most-downloaded track on the music service.

 

And, as if November couldn't get any busier for the biggest band in the world, U2 is considered a lock to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this month in its first year of eligibility. The band, now almost 30 years into its career, was nominated for the Hall of Fame in September.

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PIRATED: Illegal versions of U2's highly anticipated new album, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, appeared on online file-sharing networks Monday. A spokeswoman for the rockers tells Reuters that no decision had yet been made on whether to move up the album's release date, which is currently Nov. 23. Over the summer, a tape of some of the band's rough tracks disappeared from the studio where they were recording. At the time, they said that they might shift the release date if illegal copies of the album surfaced. Last week, the release dates for albums by Eminem and Snoop Dogg also were bumped up due to piracy concerns.