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NEWS ABOUT: U2

U2 stories: 13 news summaries

 U2 Tour Costs $750K a Day 

Bono and the boys talk pop stardom, expansive tour with Rolling Stone

Sep 30, 09 11:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rolling Stone goes behind the scenes—and tags along in a private jet—for its cover story on the U2360° Tour (aka “the biggest rock tour of all time”), which is comprised of a 170-ton stage carted around by 200 trucks, 250 speakers, almost 400 employees—and... More »

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entertainment • music • U2 • pop music • concert tour • Jay-ZTV

 U2 Tour Not So Eco-Friendly 

No word from Bono on whether or not he's offsetting his emissions

Jul 7, 09 3:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - U2 is all about “looking after our planet,” as frontman Bono once said—but they’re not practicing what they preach, according to Carbonfootprint.com: The band’s 44 concerts this year are the equivalent of “the four band members traveling the 34.125 million miles from... More »

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entertainment • carbon footprint • Bono • U2 • celebrity • carbon emissions • concert tour • Jay-ZTV

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 Web Killed Big Acts, 
 Saved Music: Kot 

Each tech advance stirred unfounded fears: Kot

May 21, 09 12:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Internet has so fragmented music that there may never be another big act like U2. But that’s just fine for music critic Greg Kot, author of Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music. “Art thrives best when it’s created without regard to making any kind of... More »

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entertainment • Internet • music industry • music downloads • U2 • piracy • Beatles • record label • Greg Kot

 Irish Angry at U2's Tax Evasion   

Group criticized as hypocritical in light of history of activism

Mar 3, 09 3:02 PM CST
(Newser) - U2 is under fire for possible tax evasion as the Irish government pushes for a bigger slice of the band’s earnings, the Christian Science Monitor reports. U2 moved its publishing company to Amsterdam in 2006 after a tax bill limited artists’ tax-free earnings to $315,000. With Irish deficits... More »

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music • Bono • U2 • tax evasion • Ireland • tax code • tax dodge • the Edge • financial crisis

 Money Woes Ground 
 Spidey, Other Musicals 

Stephen Sondheim revue stumbles before opening

Feb 27, 09 11:48 AM CST
(Newser) - Financial woes are forcing more musicals to face the music: Spider-Man’s Broadway appearance has been delayed until next January, while Stephen Sondheim’s latest couldn’t raise the cash for tryout performances, Bloomberg reports. Spidey’s show, with tunes by U2’s Bono and the Edge, costs a record... More »

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theater • finances • Spider-Man • Bono • U2 • Broadway • the Edge • Stephen Sondheim

 Bono: Fans 
 Wish I'd 
 Die Young 

Singer rails against rock star 'mythology'

Feb 24, 09 1:36 PM CST
(Newser) - Sorry, U2 fans: Bono is sticking around for a while. The frontman discussed the mystique of rock stars dying young with a BBC TV show, claiming “people do want you to die on a cross age 33, with a Jack Daniels in your hand,” the Mirror reports. But... More »

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rock stars • Bono • U2 • celebrity • rock and roll

U2's $31M Spider-Man
Musical Hits Delays

Show is most expensive Broadway production ever

Feb 19, 09 4:01 PM CST
(Newser) - Spider-Man has hit more snags en route to its debut as a Broadway musical, Bloomberg reports. Rehearsals for the U2-scored production, set to begin this spring, have been postponed indefinitely. With its budget currently at $31.3 million, the Spidey musical is the most expensive Broadway show ever, and costs... More »

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Spider-Man • Bono • U2 • Broadway • the Edge • The Lion King • Julie Taymor

 U2 Gets a Line on New Release 

Band's 12th studio effort is due March 3

Dec 19, 08 11:27 AM CST
(Newser) - U2’s hotly anticipated new album is finally on the horizon: No Line on the Horizon is set for release March 3, E! Online reports. The band delayed the release to polish the songs and add two tracks. Although U2 worked with its “usual suspects,” guitarist the Edge... More »

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Bono • U2 • album release • rock music • album • the Edge

Equation Helps Procrastinators Overcome Their Stall Tactics

You know, when you get around to it

Dec 8, 08 7:00 AM CST
(Newser) - The legions of those of us who "will do it later" are growing, reports the Sunday Times, but now there's a formula to figure out what chance you have of beating back your delay tactics. A Calgary University business professor claims in a new book, The Procrastination Equation,... More »

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U2 • Guns N' Roses • colleges and universities • Mark Twain • students • procrastination • Piers Steel • Calgary University • The Procrastination Equation

 Facebooked: Bono Caught 
 Cavorting With Teens 

19-year-olds post photos on social site after partying in St. Tropez with U2 frontman

Oct 27, 08 11:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sorry, Bono fans, Facebook doesn't lie. The married U2 frontman spent a night in St. Tropez partying with two 19-year-olds, Australia’s News Network reports after the girls posted pics—and details—on their Facebook pages. But Bono didn't cross the line. “For somebody who's much older than I... More »

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Facebook • Bono • U2 • musician • the Edge

 Bono Joins 
 Op-Ed Page 
 of NYT 

U2 singer joins Grey Lady's ranks as columnist

Oct 23, 08 4:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bono may have finally found what he’s looking for: the New York Times’ op-ed section will be the U2 singer’s new print home, Radar reports. Editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal announced his newest columnist last night, telling Columbia's School of Journalism that the activist/sunglasses aficionado will pen between... More »

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newspaper • New York Times • Condoleezza Rice • Bono • U2 • columnists • Megan McArdle • William Kristol

 It Might Get Loud Hits 
 Guitar Hero Trifecta 

Jimmy Page, U2's Edge and Jack White get their axe grind on in new documentary

Sep 19, 08 6:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - There's no Behind the Music-style debauchery to be found in It Might Get Loud, Rolling Stone reports. Rather, the documentary more resembles “having three carpenters talk about a radial-arm saw,” quips Jack White, who along with the Edge (of U2) and Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), form the heart... More »

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film • U2 • rock and roll • guitar • Led Zeppelin • Jimmy Page • documentary film • White Stripes • Jack White • the Edge

G8 Concludes with AIDS Pledge

World leaders renew $60B pledge to fight disease in Africa

Jun 8, 07 3:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Global leaders renewed their vow to spend $60 billion to help fight AIDS, TB, and malaria in Africa today as the G8 summit wrapped up. But they set no deadlines for delivering the relief, leading critics to question the pledge. "I think it is deliberately the language of obfuscation,... More »

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Iran • Russia • Africa • AIDS • greenhouse gases • global warming • France • malaria • Tuberculosis • Kosovo • G8 summit • Group of Eight • Bono • U2 • George W. Bush • carbon emissions

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