U2 is a group of rock'n'roll Irish resulting from the generation New wave composed of Bono (Paul Hewson) to the song, The Edge (David Evans) with the guitar, Adam Clayton with low and Larry Mullen Junior with the battery. Since the end of the year 1980, it took a lead in the world scene like one of the best rock groups. One owes him in particular the albums War , The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby . It sold 170 million album S (May 2006). It also gained 22 Grammy Awards.

U2 is formed in 1976, when all the members are adolescent without musical competence.

Since the middle of the years 1980, the group defends the cause of the Human rights and Bono was in string for the Nobel Prize of peace in 2003 and 2005. It also made the promotion of Amnesty International at the time of its concerts. Besides the members of the group become “ambassadors of conscience” of the organization in 2005. In December 2005, Bono is named Personality of the year 2005 by the Time Magazine for its combat in favor of Africa.

Biography

Beginnings

The beautiful story begins fine 1976, with the Dublin 'S Mount Temple School , where Larry Mullen, then teenager, passes a classified to form an rock group. Among the members whom it recruits, one counts David Evans (renamed The Edge later), Adam Clayton , and Paul Hewson (renamed Bono Vox , then Bono ). Dick Evans , the brother of The Edge , will make a short appearance in the group, before trying its own musical adventure within the Virgin Prunes, with dimensions of Gavin Friday and Guggi .

Dick and David are guitarists of a rather experimental kind since Dick plays on a yellow guitar which it manufactured itself. Adam is bass player, it is oldest of all, he dries the courses regularly, very often finds himself in the headmaster of Mount Temple because of his behaviors more than eccentric. It is him which will convince Larry to recruit a Paul Hewson who does not hesitate to present himself as a guitarist. In fact, Paul cannot absolutely play, and directs himself quickly towards the writing and the song.

The group is called initially Feedback , then The Hype and adopts finally the name of U2 after the departure of Dick, more in one spirit of communion with its public that a reference to the American spy plane which was cut down in Soviet Union a few days before the birth of Bono.

Initial training remained intact until today, including on scene where U2 prefers to have recourse to records printer rather than with additional musicians.

After one year of repetitions in the kitchen of Mullen, Feedback gives its very first concert in the gymnasium of Mount Temple to the autumn 1977, at the time of a contest organized by the school. Dick is absent, and it is thus the U2 future in its final formation which launches out. They take again there standards of the Rolling Stones, Beach Boys and Eagles, but it is with a resumption of Show Me the Way of Peter Frampton that they conquer the public. This evening, they gain the first price. Feedback changes name first once and becomes The Hype.

Adam deals from now on with the management of the group, full-time since it is transfered college. Beginning 1978, The Hype opens for Revolver in one of the largest clubs of Dublin, taking again the Sex Pistols and the Stranglers. In March, Larry insists that The Hype takes part in a new contest, sponsored by Harp Lager, Evening Press and CBS, and equipped with a price of 500 pounds. The Hype arrives finally and gains the first price, in front of a group more tested, East Coast Angels. They also obtain a free meeting of recording in Keystones Studios of Dublin.

It is at that time that the group meets the Irish division of CBS in the person of Jackie Hayden, but also Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy, which persuades Adam to find a manager and especially Bill Graham de Hot Press, which will present the group two months later to a Paul McGuinness. A few days later, at the end in a concert in Community Centers of Howth, Dick Evans leaves the group: The Hype becomes U2 on the suggestion of Steve Averill.

Convinced of the potential of the group Paul McGuinness agrees the station to manage following a concert given in May 1978 to Project Arts Center, where they divide the poster with Virgin Prunes. He is still their manager today, and often considered as their 5th member. U2 then starts to record demonstrations, continuous to give small concerts in the colleges and the clubs of the area, in order to obtain a contract with a recording company.

Before joining U2, only Larry Mullen could play of its instrument and belonged to a local brass band. In spite of an complete absence of technique, they quickly will be characterized by their freshness, their scenic force, and a sound mixing sonorities of punk, the incipient new-wave, the rock'n'roll and of pop Lasting its concerts, the group plays of many recoveries, Peter Frampton in Thin Lizzy, without neglecting its own compositions, with which they are much more at ease. At a session of recording in December 78 in Keystones Studios of Dublin, they record their the first three pieces: The Fool , Street Mission and Shadows and Tall Trees . McGuinness goes to London with the demonstration, in order to canvass the recording companies.

May 10th, 1978: Dear Mr Hewson - Thank you to have subjected your cassette of “U2” to RSO, we listened to it with the greatest consideration, but we have the feeling that it does not correspond to us for the moment. We wish you good luck for your future career - Cordially, Alexander Sainclair.

In spite of the reserves of the large companies of disc to sign the group, U2 is a certain success on scene, which leads them to record in 1979, on the label CBS Ireland, a EP three titles entitled U2-3 , where appear the versions demonstration of Out off Control and Stories for Boys , as well as the title Servant boy-Girl . At the time of a show on RTE presented by Dave Fanning, the group makes choose with the listeners the title which will leave opposite A. Their choice goes off on Out Control . Three thus leaves in September 79, in limited pulling and only in Ireland. The thousand specimens in a hurry are numbered with the hand.

However, the part is far from being gained. At the time of a concert in Baggott Inn, persons in charge of the label EMI, invited to listen to the group, leave the room right in the middle of the spectacle. U2 decide to try the whole for the whole. They scrape bottoms of the barrel, borrow from their family and their friends, and embark for London. The failures multiply and the members of U2 set out again in Ireland without contract out of pocket.

To note that their first concert in France, was broadcast on France Inter and took place with the National school of public works of the State, with Vaulx out of vellum. This concert was in particular organized by Emmanuel de Buretel de Chassey, current president of EMI France. (to be supplemented)

McGuinness does not give up, and organizes a mini-round in Ireland, which is a very great success, and which will culminate by a concert with closed counters in front of 2000 people with Dublin, extremely rare thing for a group not signed. It is as at that time as leaves Another Day , become since a collector.

In January 1980, the Hot magazine Close carries out a survey near its readers, and U2 gains the first place in five categories. In April, they sign with Island Records and record the month following their second individual 11 O' clock Tick Tock , produced by Martin Hannett known for his work with Joy Division.

First albums

Continuous U2 to make scene during the summer 1980 in the United Kingdom, and forges a reputation, in particular Bono which looks further into the contact with the public by making it take part, sometimes while climbing on the amplifiers and the scaffolding of scene, other times by putting back at the public for finally falling to the shift in a tide from helping hands. In October 1980, the group records its first album studio, Boy , produced by Steve Lillywhite. U2 had evil to impose Boy on the the United States, the Americans having interpreted the photograph of a child barechested on the small pocket (Peter Rowan, alias Radar) like a call to the Pédophilie. A different small pocket will consequently be created for the sale on the other side of the Atlantic.

Just after the exit of individual the I Will Follow , U2 embarks for a British round, then European, in particular with the Netherlands and in Belgium. In November, it is with the turn of the United States, where they play their first concerts on the east coast. In January of the following year, the group gains nine categories in the magazine Hot Press. The concerts continue all along the year 1981, in Europe and in the United States. In June, Bruce Springsteen defers its return to the United States to be able to attend the concert of the group in Hammersmith Palais.

Individual the Fire precedes three months the exit of October , the second album of the group, left in October 1981. Individual the Gloria is the support of the first official video clip. The group sets out again in round, for 18 dates with the the United Kingdom, with closed counter. In March 1982 leaves individual the has Celebration . A few months later, in August, Bono marries Alison Stewart.

The third album War leaves in March 1983. The group knows a radical change of management, openly discussing political subjects, like the events in Northern Ireland in Sunday, Bloody Sunday , or the situation in Poland in New Year' S Day . An engagement comparable with that of The Clash. The disc is also a business success, it is classified n°1 in the United Kingdom. In July 1983, The Edge marries Aisleen O' Sullivan in Enniskerry. This last becomes also the first member to be taken part in a project apart from U2, for the album Snake Charmer Jah Wobble.

U2 had already delivered some extracts in concerts on theindividual ones like Fire , but the appearance of the bootlegs or albums pirate leads the group to carry out an album in public. Under has Blood Red Sky is published in November 1983. The disc is produced by Jimmy Iovine and is composed of eight titles live drawn from the concerts from Lorelei and Denver. Concert of Denver is also drawn a video live, Under has Blood Red Sky - Live At Red Rocks . U2 is elected group of the year by the magazine Rolling Stone.

The second trilogy

End of the War Turn mark one hollow period for the group, a sterility and a lack of inspiration which could well have led them to separation. Steve Lilywhite refusing to work on more than three albums for each group, Bono calls upon Brian Eno, according to him the only able one to give them a new breath. The news surprises, Brian Eno being especially known for its experimental music and its work with David Bowie and the Talking Heads, if far away from the rock'n'roll of U2, qualified at the time of heroic .

U2, Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois settle with Slane Castle, in Ireland, to work on the fourth album studio, The Unforgettable Fire . The title of the disc was borrowed from an exposure carried out by survivors of Hiroshima, to which it is dedicated. The titles M.L.K. and Pride , which will become the individual one more sold group at this stage, pay homage to the reverend Martin Luther King.

The album leaves in October 1984. Entered the British charts directly in the first place, it is followed of a round of several months during which Bono is not deprived to comment on the political news: the project of strategic Initiative of defense, renamed Star Wars by its detractors, and the arms race in general, the Apartheid in South Africa, conflicts with the El Salvador and the Nicaragua…

In July 1984, U2 creates the label Mother Records, which will sign later Hothouse Flowers, An Emotional Fish and Cactus World News. A EP of 4 titles, including two in studio, heading Wide Awake in America , leaves to the United States until 1987.

The turning

July 13rd 1985 U2 takes part in the Live Aid, two concerts given simultaneously in Europe and to the United States, organized by Bob Geldof to relieve the famine in Africa. Their energy and the charisma of which made Bono proof at the time of their short service mark the public. The following week, the sales of album triple.

Bono takes part then in the album Sun City with Steven Van Zandt and in the project Artists Against Apartheid. It records with Keith Richards the acoustic initial version of Silver and Gold . At the time of the summer 1986, U2 embarks with Peter Gabriel, Sting and Joan Baez for the round of Amnesty International has Conspiracy Of Hope . Bono benefits from this humane dash to remain in a desert Ethiopia N and in a village of El Salvador. It will take as a starting point this voyage to write the texts of the next album of the group (in particular Where The Streets Have No Name and Bullet the Blue Sky ), called to become most popular of their career.

World success with The Joshua Tree

March 9th 1987, leaves The Joshua Tree , fifth album studio always produced by Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois. U2 there looks further into its new musical style outlined in The Unforgettable Fire , and proposes compositions very different from those of the first three albums. The album translates the love of the group for America and in particular for the American music. The group can however be critical with regard to certain aspects of the country (political, company,…) with Bullet the Blue Sky , song played each round. At the time of the round Rise Tower 2001 , a quotation of Charlton Heston, president of the National Riffle Association which militates for the maintenance of the second amendment of the American Constitution authorizing the possession of firearms for the private individuals, precedes the piece.

Five individual will be extracted from the album, of which With Or Without You . The Joshua Tree becomes the album most quickly sold with the world, while being certified platinum in the United States less than 48 hours after its exit. It is classified at the head hit parades in twenty-two countries, the sales exceed the 15 million specimens (+ of 20 million to date).

A round begins in spring in the United States, reached Europe right before the summer for finally being completed in the United States from September to December. Nearly nine months of round, with more than one hundred concerts, the Joshua Tree World Tour consolidates the success of the group. Two Grammy awards (Album off the year, Best Rock'n'roll Performance), International Best Group Award with the BPI Awards, thousands of covers of newspapers of which that, rare thing, of Time Magazine, which titrates and devotes six pages to the group. A privilege which before had been granted only to the Beatles and with the Who.

U2 moreover had charged Phil Joanou with carrying out documentary with the format cinema during the round Joshua Tree World Tour . Turning begins at the time of the American concerts to the autumn. The round is completed one evening of December 1987, with Tempe in Arizona, where the Joshua Tour had started. U2 turns over in studio to supplement the project with songs recorded in studio. Several months of work will be necessary to complete the production of film with Paramount, and an double album accompanies its exit in October 88. The feature film as the album is entitled Rattle and Hum . One finds individual the Desire there, like various collaborations with BB King, Bob Dylan, Cowboy Jack Lenient or even New Voices off Freedom, a choral society gospel of New York, with which Bono sings I Still Haven' T Found What I' m Looking For . The success of film, so much near criticisms than of the public, is relatively mitigated.

At the beginning of August 1989, Adam Clayton is stopped for possession of Cannabis. The judge in charge of of the business will reproach him the bad example which it can give, considering the influence of U2 on its fans. No custodial sentence will be however pronounced, it will bail out just fine.

With the autumn 1989, U2 begins a five months round. The concerts are complete instantaneously and of many dates must be added. Eight concerts take place finally with Sydney and seven with Melbourne. The Lovetown Tour begins on September 21st, 1989 with Perth in the Australian west and during more than two months, the group traverses the Australia, the New Zealand as well as the Japan, for the last concert, on December 1st. It is a round in rooms with multiple concerts in each city, except in New Zealand where the concerts take place in stages. BB King plays in first part and interprets some titles with U2 at the time of the recalls.

After Japan, U2 still adds some concerts in Europe. Only four cities are indicated to receive them: Paris, Dortmund, Amsterdam and Dublin. Twelve concerts are thus envisaged in Europe but the round LoveTown is curtailed, suffering Bono of one virus to the throat. Put at forced rest, the group is nevertheless complete for the four concerts given in the Irish capital. December 31st, 1989, the group gives a concert to the Point Deposit of Dublin, old station where part of Rattle And Hum was recorded, and arrives on scene at the twelve strokes of midnight, starting its service not with New Year' S Day as one could have expected it, but by interpreting Where The Streets Have No Name , preceded by the Auld Lang Syne ( It is only one goodbye ). The concert is retransmis in a score of country and follow-up by five hundred and thousand people.

Towards the end of the round, Bono lets escape a sentence which will frighten of them more one about the future of the group: We make a round of goodbye. We spent ten years formidable. This round is a festival for us, the public, and those which supported us. We will make another thing the next time and it is necessary for us to move away… We had much pleasure to discover the music which we do not know. It is the one time end for U2. It is nothing, it is right which we have need to stop us to start again to dream .

To note during this round, U2 will do itself several first parts under the pseudonym " The Dalton Brothers ", with disguise and repertory country of circumstances

Giant rounds of the years 1990

The four Irishmen moved away from the media scene to the beginning of the year 1990, this absence giving place to rumors of separation. However in 1990, U2 took part in the project Red Hot and Blue, an album homage to Cole Porter whose benefit went to research against the AIDS. U2 there côtoie David Byrne, Annie Lennox, Iggy Pop, Sinead O' Connor, green Negresses, Neneh Cherry, Salif Keïta, like Erasure. A version of Night and Day making the good share with the synthetizers is reproduced on this disc.

Rumors circulated in connection with the artistic orientation of the following album, whose copy of work was catch in a hotel room of Berlin in 1991. Of these copies flights, three vinyls drawn, will be sold under the coat in a black small pocket, with a simple inscription: The New U2 - Rehearsels And Full Versions . Later, a box of three CD under the name of Salome will be also diffused, in the most total illegality.

In November 1991 leaves the new album, Achtung Baby , preceded by a few weeks by individual the The Fly . Recorded in Berlin, the disc is produced once again by Eno and Lanois. It will be sold with more than 10 million specimens. The use of the phasing on the voice of Bono, and effects of distortion on the battery distinguish this new opus from the traditional sound from U2. As declared it The Edge, The Fly , it is the noise of four types sawing the Joshua Tree .

Taking distance compared to its statute of planetary star, Bono declares that they are finally only four imbeciles escorted by the police force , well too paid for what they do . The new orientation of the group, which decides to adapt to its time by using last technologies, divides their public.

The promotional round of Achtung Baby is baptized Zoo TV Tower . Inspired by the power of the media shown during the war of the Gulf, the show wants to be interactive. Thanks to an embarked television broadcast station the group will be able to send the images in its own concerts anywhere in the world, and to receive all the images which it wishes. Bono will be able to utilize no matter who during the concert.

The round begins in February 1992. U2, its tens of tele screens to the subliminal messages, and the Trabant S suspended in the airs furrow America with closed counters, then to reach Europe, the whole for a round in rooms. In the first part of the spectacle Bono interprets only titles of the last album, vêtu of leather and affublé of its glasses of Mouche. It also incarnates a character whom it calls MirrorBall man , an American businessman halfway between JR and Elvis Presley. The second part of the concert is directed towards the preceding albums.

The round continues with concerts in the open air given to the United States. The Outside Broadcast Tour wants to be disproportionate than the Zoo TV Tower : the screens TV and the scene are transported by fifty semitrailers, a million Watts is deployed, the world records of decibels is reached, which will be worth to them some complaints for Acouphènes, even deafnesses. During the round Bono turns George Herbert Walker Bush in derision, U2 supports openly the candidature of Bill Clinton at the time of the American presidential elections. In March, the magazine Q proclaims them better group of the world and better “songwriters”.

The round again crosses Europe at the time of the summer 1993, within the framework of the new round Zooropa , while the group continues to explore new directions in studio. In the full spring-station-wagon of their round, four Irish benefits from the soundchecks to compose and is able to leave a new album during the second European round. Heading Zooropa , it proceeds in the way outlined by Achtung Baby . The album does not meet a large business success and gives an impression of unfinished work to some critical musical.

During this Zooropa Turn , Bono creates a new character, McPhisto , a diabolic double, vêtu of a red dress and gold, and carrying horns, contraction of Mephisto and McDonald' S. At each end in concert, McPhisto takes down the telephone and calls on line often discussed personalities. Among the most noticed, the niece of Mussolini, Jean-Marie Le Pen, or the manager of football Graham Taylor… It will also invite on scene Salman Rushdie, of which it will be the first appearance in public since the proclamation of a Fatwa in its opposition.

The round crosses finally Asia and Oceania, for the Zoomerang Tour . In a concert in Sydney it video U2 Live in Sydney will be drawn. It will be the final point of almost two years of round. In 1993, the magazine Q elects U2 (better group of scene in activity) and Zooropa enables them to receive it (price of the best studio production) for the third time in four years. U2 gains its 4th Brit award for its services in concert.

Original soundtracks and collaborations

After two years of rounds, U2 takes one sabbatical year in 1994. The group records then the title Hold Me Thrill Me KIS Me Kill Me , which will appear in the original soundtrack of the film Batman Forever . They take part with Luciano Pavarotti, Howie B and Brian Eno with the recording of the album Original Soundtracks Volume One under the name of The Passengers, original soundtrack of imaginary films. Maximum individual the Miss Sarajevo presents opposite B a symphonic version One recorded to Modena at the time of a concert Pavarotti and Friends . Adam and Larry take part in the original soundtrack of the film Mission impossible , whereas Edge and Bono write for Tina Turner the piece GoldenEye , song titrates seventeenth film of the series James Bond. The quartet finally enters in studio in order to record its 9th album.

Beginning 1997 leave individual the Discothèque like its clip in which U2 parodies the Village People. They precede by a few days the album Pop . February 12th, in K-mart of New York, U2 launches officially the round Popmart which will begin with Las Vegas on April 25th. This round must last one year and is conceived only for the stages. Equipped with the more big screen with liquid crystals ever built (700m ²), the scene has in particular a giant arch of 30m top. All is conceived there to give the illusion to be in a discotheque: The Edge organizes even one there karaoké and a giant lemon acts as ball with facets.

The light effects are deployed in large battery so much so that, during the tests the first day before in Las Vegas, the standard of the police force was submerged of calls of the residents having believed to attend the landing of a UFO. After the United States, Europe comes, in stages always archi-roofs. U2 benefits from its concert in Rotterdam to record the mini-album PopHeart there. The round passes by Sarajevo before reaching Mexico, where U2 films the concert for the Showtime chain (concert which will leave in video), and is completed in Johannesburg in South Africa, the birthday day of the Universal declaration of the Human rights.

U2, among a whole host of stars, takes part in 1998 in the recording of individual caritative the Perfect day in the instigation of Lou Reed, then made an appearance in the 200ème episode of the Simpsons , entitled Trash Of The Titans . A few months later leave the first compilation U2 The Best Of 1980-1990 and a version re-recorded Sweetest Thing . The limited edition of Best off is accompanied by second CD entirely made up of faces B. a video cassette of clips accompanies its exit.

With the turning of the millenium

The end of the similar millenium, Bono carries out thirteen years an old project: to see the scenario which he wrote, entitled The Million Dollar Hotel , carried out by his/her friend Wim Wenders, with Mel Gibson in the main role. The film leaves the December 24th 1999, and tells the quiet universe of some simple of spirit residing in the Million Dollar Hotel, which will be upset by the death of the one of them. The song The Ground Beneath Her Feet , of which the words are signed Salman Rushdie, figure on the original soundtrack of film.

Bono is invested in the countryside of Jubilee 2000, which militates in favor of the cancellation of the debt of the Third World countries. He does not hesitate to challenge the Heads of States of the whole world on this subject during his appearances as a public.

The official site of U2 is put on line at the beginning of the summer 2000, and then delivers soon extracts of a new album in preparation, heading All That You Can' T Leave Behind . In September leaves individual the Beautiful Day . Before even the exit of the album U2 starts a mini-round promotion which passes by Man-Ray of Paris, then Irving Plaza of New York, and finally Astoria of London. The album becomes number one in Europe and in the United States, and it is with the will of to become again the greatest rock group of the world what starts the Elevation Tower 2001 . The round proceeds in rooms, without artifices and again with closed counters. New dates will be added to satisfy the request of the public.

In April, U2 takes part in the original soundtrack of film inspired of the video game Tomb Raider , with the title Elevation . Bono, Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer, which had already worked together on the B.O of the film In The Name Of The Father ( In the name of the father ), also record Children off the Revolution , a resumption of T-Rex, for film of Baz Luhrman Moulin-Rouge! .

The round crosses the United States (50 dates), then Europe (33 dates). The concerts given to Slane proceed in front of 80.000 people. U2 goes back to the United States in October (30 dates), in full conflict against terrorism. The Elevation Tower becomes the second most lucrative round of all times (109,7 million dollars), just behind the Voodoo Lounge Tour of the Rolling Stones in 1994 (121,2 million dollars).

Hardly the round completed, and right after the exit of the video Rise Live From Boston , Bono and Paul McGuinness announce more or less officially that U2 will set out again for a second European round as of the next summer. They appear in Grammys, Meteor Irish Awards, and especially occur at the half-time of the Super Bowl. Bono being invested more and more in initiatives such as Jubilee 2000, the need to gain the American opinion with its cause is necessary. It the cover of the weekly magazine Time Magazine, which on this occasion titrates ( Bono makes can save the world? ).

This personal investment starts to weigh heavily on the group, which suffers from the repeated absences of its singer. The stop of the publication of the magazine of the fan club, and the denial of Principle Management about one second European round, start again new rumors of separation.

In June, U2.com off puts on line some extracts of the new song of The Hands That Built America , written for the film Gangs New York of Martin Scorsese. The 22, The Edge marry the ex-dancer of the belly of the Zoo TV Tower - Morleigh Steinberg with Eze-on-sea, very close to their residence of summer. Bono benefits from the top of the G8 to affirm its position and to meet the Heads of States of the whole world in order to financially help the involved in debt countries and victims of the AIDS. It is named one month later for.

August 25th, the station Radio operator BBC 1 diffuses individual the Electrical Storm almost two months before its exit. The piece is immediately put on line on the Net, and is taken again by radios of the whole world. They are only four days later that 2FM diffuses officially the new individual one, in a version different from that of the BBC, which was only one demonstration.

Bono takes part in September in the BO of film of Neil Jordan, The Good Thief . In November, a fifty minutes program proposing nine recorded titles live with Slane the August 25th and September 1st, 2003 is diffused on several European chains. A petition is launched by the site of U2Place.com fans so that the DVD in the concert is born. Universal publishes the Best Of 1990-2000 , in November out of CD and in December in DVD.

In 2003 individual the The Hands That Build America is named for the Oscars, Bono receives the Légion of honor, but the activity of the group is reduced. The singer more often appears in company of political personalities or VIP that at the sides of the three other members of U2. The group however prepares a new album. The entirety in the concert of Slane 2 leaves in DVD in November.

The atomic bomb

The October 15th 2004 with London, U2 off records a mini-concert (including/understanding three titles of the new album) on the carpark of BBC Television for the emission Top the Pops. The November 16th in Ireland, Radio 1 of BBC diffuses another mini-concert of the group on line. The November 22nd, the group off turns the clip of All Because You in the streets of Manhattan on a truck, then plays 11 titles under the Brooklyn Bridge (free concert). The first individual one of the twelfth official album of U2, How to dismantle year Atomic bomb , leaves in November 2004.

A pirated version of How to Dismantle year Atomic Bomb , 11th album studio of U2, is in remote loading on several sites two weeks before the official exit of the disc, on November 22nd 2004. The disc at the head rises as of the first week sales everywhere in the world. Parallel to this exit, U2 joins Apple to leave a series walkmans IPod U2 initials, as well as the first box collector numerical, downloadable on the ITunes Music Store. The Complete DIGITAL Box gathers 446 titles of which extracts in concerts, demonstrations, remix, etc

In February 2005 leave individual the Sometimes You Can' T Make It one Your Own to Europe and All Because off You to North America.

The kickoff of the triumphal round Vertigo // 2005 is given the March 28th 2005 to the Sports Arena of San Diego (California). They pass in all North America by taking again titles of their first album, Boy, which they had not played since of the years, and of all their discography, by making however the dead end on Pop. They turn off the video clip of City Blinding Lights the April 27th, with Vancouver (Canada), in General Motors Place. The May 10th, day of the birthday of Bono, the group is filmed in concert with Chicago for a DVD. They turn in Europe during the summer, while passing by Paris (July 9th and 10th 2005) and Nice (the August 8th). The 2 concerts with the Stade de France, complete in less than 6 a.m. a few months earlier, gather 160.349 spectators; the concert at the Stage Charles Ehrmann brings together 51.900 people with Nice on August 8th, 2005.

July 2nd are organized by Bono and Bob Geldof the concerts of the Live 8, with Washington DC, London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Moscow, Johannesbourg and Tokyo in order to mobilize the public on the problems of the Africa and to make react the leaders of the Member States of the G8. They obtain the cancellation of the debt of the 18 poorest countries The Edge cofonde the project Music Rising, with an aim of returning instruments to the musicians of the Orleans News devastated by the hurricane Katrina.

To the autumn, U2 turns over on the roads of North America and passes by again by seven times at the Madison Square Garden of New York! In October off leaves individual All Because You to Europe and Original in November off the Species to the the United States. The November 14th leaves the DVD U2//Vertigo//2005 Live from Chicago. The second North-American round is completed with Portland, the December 19th.

Beginning 2006, U2 starts a fourth part of its round in the rest of the world while starting with the South America and which should have continued in Oceania, with the Japan and to be completed with Honolulu (Hawaii). The concerts océaniens, Japanese and hawaiiens were deferred because of the disease of a close relation of the one of the members of the group.

At the time of the Football world cup 2006, the members of U2 lend their voices and some their titles for commercials to the the United States.

An end 2006/at the beginning of 2007: a program charged

After a voyage in Africa where it once again noted misery and worked on new texts, Bono finds its assistants to work on their album following during the be and the Automne 2006 with the producer Rick Rubin (which in particular worked with Run DMC, Slayer, Johnny Cash, Red Hot Chili Peppers, System off has Down, AC/DC, Rage Against the Machine or Audioslave).

Side finances, the group transferred to the Netherlands the seat from " U2 Limited" , company which manages approximately a third of the fortune of the formation, which causes some reactions because of the political commitments of the group: U2 is the group of music which generated the most important incomes in 2005 in the world. However, with the Netherlands, the Royalties are practically free from any taxation.

In September 2006 is envisaged the exit of the video " Zoo TV Live from Sydney " , recorded the November 27th 1993 which had already been published in VHS but which was remasterisée for the exit DVD.

U2 records with Green Day, also one of the largest Titans of the rock'n'roll, a resumption of The Skids, The Saints Are Coming , whose benefit will be transferred with Music Rising and who leaves into individual the November 6th 2006; in less than one week, the individual one will reach the sixth place of the Charts only on the level of the remote loadings (legal). The group records its next album in the mythical studios of Abbey Road, immortalized by The Beatles.

The September 25th 2006, U2 takes part in a mini-concert with Green Day (with which they interprets the Saints Are Coming) to celebrate the reopening of the Louisiana Superdome with the Orleans News after the devastations caused by Katrina. The same day is published their autobiography, written in collaboration with Neil McCormick, under the title U2 by U2 .

Beginning November, the last leg of the Vertigo Tour begins again in Australia. During the concert of Brisbane, Bono returns upon its humanistic engagements with Amnesty International while speaking about a Australien, David Hicks, retained with the American prison of Guantanamo Bay. Bono claims that David Hicks is repatriated and judged in Australia (he had been shown of Terrorisme). The December 9th 2006, U2 plays the last concert of its Vertigo world tour in Aloha Stadium (Honolulu, Hawaii), in front of 45.815 spectators. During this round, the Irish group gave 131 concerts throughout the world, all complete, in front of 4,6 million spectators, for a total revenue of 389 million dollars.

A third best off, entitled U218 Individual, including/understanding 16 traditional titles of U2, in addition to the new Window in the Ski and The Saints Are Coming , the November 21st leaves. This new compilation is carried out to mark the separation of the group of sound label of more than 25 years, Island Records: U218 Singles is produced on the label Mercury.

May 19th 2007, U2 presents to the 60ème Cannes festival a new bearing film on their last round: Vertigo Turn. This film, carried out by 3ality DIGITAL, takes seat in special rooms to accommodate a new technology 3D. The concert is composed of songs recorded with the Mexico, Brésil, Chile and in Argentine in February 2006. Projection takes place in the presence of the group, which for the occasion interprets Vertigo and Where the Streets Have No Name on the mythical steps of the palate before the projection of film.

In June 2007, the group is in full work with Fès, in Morocco, on the realization of compositions which could be used for a new album. The historical producers of the group, Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, take part in these meetings. The June 2nd and 3rd, Bono attends XIIIe Festival of Fès of the sacred musics of the world in company of the Moroccan authorities.

Discography

Albums studio

Compilations and various

  • Three (mini-album, September 1979, published with thousand specimens)
  • Under has off Blood Red Sky (concert, 1983, approximately 8 million specimens)
  • Wide Awake in America (mini-album, 1985, approximately 9 million specimens)
  • Melon (compilation made up of faces B and remix, 1995, offered to the members of Propaganda Magazine only)
  • Original Soundtracks 1 (album left under the pseudonym Passengers with other artists, November 1995)
  • The Best 1980-1990 (compilation, November 1998, approximately 12 million specimens)
  • The Million Dollar Hotel 2000 (sound screen, sales???)
  • Hasta the Vista Baby! (concert, July 2000, offered to the members of Propaganda Magazine only)
  • Seven (compilation made up of faces B and remix, January 2002, only marketed in the Target stores in the USA)
  • The Best off 1990-2000 , 2002 (compilation, approximately 15 million specimens)
  • U2.Communication (concert, November 2005, offered to the members of u2.com)
  • ZooTV - Live from Sydney (concert, November 2006, offered to the paying members of U2.com)
  • U218 Individual (compilation, November 2006, approximately 9 million specimens)

Participation in compilation Rhythms Del Mundo (meets between the musicians Cuba ins of the Buena Vista Social Club and of the pop artists/rock'n'roll, with the profit of an association of assistance to the victims of natural disasters): Recovery of I still haven' T found what i' m looking for (verses sung in Spanish by Freeman Coconut, English refrain by U2 (Sample?)).

Individual

; Extracts of Servant boy

  • has Day Without Me (August 1980)

  • I Will Follow (October 1980)

; Extracts of October

  • Fire (June 1981)

  • Gloria (October 1981)

  • has Celebration

; Extracts of War

  • New Year' S Day (January 1983)

  • Two Hearts Happy ace One (March 1983)
  • Sunday Bloody Sunday (June 1983)
  • " 40" (July 1983, only left to Germany)

; Extracts of The Unforgettable Fire

  • Pride (In the Name off Coils) (September 1984)

  • The Unforgettable Fire (April 1985)

; Extracts of The Joshua Tree

  • With gold Without You (March 1987)

  • I Still Haven' T Found What I' m Looking for (May 1987)
  • Where the Streets Cuts No Name (August 1987)
  • In God' S Country (November 1987, only left to the USA)
  • One Tree Hill (March 1988, only left to New Zealand)

; Extracts of Rattle and Hum

  • Desire (September 1988)

  • Angel off Harlem (December 1988)
  • When Coils Comes to Town (April 1989) (U2 & B.B. King)
  • All I Want Is You (June 1989)

; Extracts of Achtung Baby

  • The Fly (October 1991)

  • Mysterious Ways (December 1991)
  • One (February 1992)
  • Even Better Than the Real Thing (June 1992)
  • Who' S Gonna Wrinkles Your Wild Horses (November 1992)

; Extracts of Zooropa

  • Numb (August 1993, only left in video)

  • Lemon (October 1993, only left in certain countries)
  • Stay (Faraway, So Close!) (November 1993)

; Extracts of Original Soundtracks 1 (the Passengers)

  • Miss Sarajevo (October 1995)

; Extracts of Pop

  • Discotheque (February 1997)

  • Staring At the Sun (April 1997)
  • Last Night one Earth (July 1997)
  • Please (October 1997)
  • Yew God Will Send His Angels (December 1997)
  • Mofo - remixes (December 1997)

; Extracts of The Best off 1980-1990

  • Sweetest Thing (October 1998)

; Extracts of The Million Dollar Hotel (original soundtrack of film)

  • The Ground Beneath Her Feet (March 2000)

; Extracts of All That You Can' T Leave Behind

  • Beautiful Day (October 2000)

  • Stuck in off has Moment You Can' T Get Out (January 2001)
  • Walk one (February 2001)
  • Elevation (July 2001)

; Extracts of The Best off 1990-2000

  • Electrical Storm (October 2002)

  • The Hands That Built America (January 2003)

; Extracts of How to Dismantle year Atomic Bomb

  • Vertigo (November 2004)
  • Sometimes You Can' T Make It one Your Own (February 2005)
  • City off Blinding Lights (June 2005)
  • All Because off You (October 2005)
  • Original off the Species (November 2005, only left in Internet downloading)

; Extracted from U218 Individual

; Left except album

  • Another Day (February 1980)
  • 11 O' Clock Tick Tock (May 1980)
  • has Celebration (October 1982)
  • Hold Me, Thrill Me, KIS Me, Kill Me (June 1995, extract of the B.O of Batman Forever)
  • One (April 2006) (U2 & Mary J. Blige)

Videotex

  • Under has Blood Red Sky (November 1983) off

  • Rattle and Hum (December 1988)
  • Achtung Baby (October 1992)
  • Zoo TV Live from Sydney (April 1994)
  • PopMart Live from Mexico City City (November 1998)
  • The Best 1980-1990 (April 1999)
  • Making off " the Joshua Tree" (November 1999)
  • Rise 2001/Live from Boston (November 30th, 2001)
  • The History Mix 1990-2000 (December 4th, 2002)
  • The Best off 1990-2000 (December 2nd, 2002)
  • Go Home, Live from Slane Castle (November 18th, 2003)
  • How to Dismantle year Atomic Bomb - No-claims bonus (November 22nd, 2004)
  • U2//Vertigo//2005 Live from Chicago (November 14th, 2005)
  • Zoo TV Live from Sydney nov.1993 - edition DVD (September 18th, 2006)
  • U218 Vertigo//05 Live From Milan (November 20th, 2006)
  • PopMart Live from Mexico City City déc.1997 - edition DVD (September 2007)

Rewards

  • Grammy Awards
    • 1987 -- Album Of the Year -- The Joshua Tree
    • 1987 -- Better Performance Rock'n'roll By a Duet Or a Group -- The Joshua Tree
    • 1988 -- Better Performance Rock'n'roll By a Duet Or a Group -- Desired
    • 1988 -- Better Video Clip -- Where The Streets Cuts No Name Dirigé by Meiert Avis.
    • 1992 -- Better Performance Rock'n'roll By a Duet Or a Group -- Achtung Baby
    • 1993 -- Better Album Of Alternative Music -- Zooropa
    • 1994 -- Better Video Clip, Long Form -- Zoo TV - Live From Sydney
    • 2000 -- Simple Of the Year -- Beautiful Day
    • 2000 -- Song Of the Year -- Beautiful Day
    • 2000 -- Better Performance Rock'n'roll By a Duet Or a Group -- Beautiful Day
    • 2001 -- Simple Of the Year -- Walk One
    • 2001 -- Better Pop Performance By a Duet Or a Group -- Stuck in has Moment You Can' T Get Out Of
    • 2001 -- Better Performance Rock'n'roll By a Duet Or a Group -- Rise
    • 2001 -- Better Album Rock'n'roll -- All That You Can' T Leave Behind
    • 2004 -- Better Performance Rock'n'roll By a Duet Or a Group - Vertigo
    • 2004 -- Better Video Clip, Short Form -- Vertigo Directed by Alex and Martin.
    • 2004 -- Better Song Rock'n'roll -- Vertigo
    • 2005 -- Album Of the Year -- How to Dismantle year Atomic Bomb
    • 2005 -- Song Of the Year -- Sometimes You Can' T Make It One Your Own
    • 2005 -- Better Performance Rock'n'roll By a Duet Or a Group -- Sometimes You Can' T Make It One Your Own
    • 2005 -- Better Song Rock'n'roll -- City off Blinding Lights
    • 2005 -- Better Album Rock'n'roll -- How to Dismantle year Atomic Bomb

Catalog of films

  • U2 Rattle and Hum (film), 1987 of Phil Joanou
  • U2 3D recalling their round 2006-2007

Books

  • U2 by U2 (written in collaboration with Neil McCornick with the editions With the Devil Vauvert)
  • Bono by Bono, conversations with Michka Assayas (editions the Book of pocket)
  • U2, of Herve Guilleminot (Guides musicbook)
  • U2, of Stan Cuesta (editions Librio music)

External bonds

  • the official site of U2
  • U2France - Site amalgamated with U2street.net , source of this article
  • U2achtung - All on French U2

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