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notable live performance According to user gimp2u23 the song Zoo Station from the Achtung Baby album was greatly performed on 2006-11-11 in Sydney, Australia.
fan of the month Every month we put an U2 fan in the spotlights, the fan of this month is user AllBecauseOfU2. Every fan of the month has an interview with us, you can read our interview with AllBecauseOfU2 here.
latest site news Jeremy, known as haytrain here, is the latest addition to the U2start crew. Jeremy will be a crew member specialised in bootlegs, he will mainly work on maintaining our bootleg collection, making it even better, more r.. (read more)
popular songs The song Where The Streets Have No Name is requested the most at our songs pages and therefore quite popular, according to the favorite song lists of our users the song Bad is the alltime favorite song.
news headlines We cover the news of many international U2 websites including U2.com, the most popular headline in the last two weeks was ''Next time... music.'' from u2.com.
new fan around us The most recent fan who registered is named schizo, welcome to U2start schizo! As a new user you can introduce yourself in the Welcome to U2start y'all forum.
did you know? Adam couldn't play the bass at all while U2 were rehearsing as a band for the first time, the rest of the band didn't even notice at first and blamed everything but Adam for the bad sound.
high resolution photos We have 616 high resolution U2 photos available for you, the biggest photo collection you will find. The latest photo we've added is 'Adam Clayton in Sydney'.
statistics There are currently 4,568 topics started on the forums with over 187,740 messages.
More than 12,461 fans are a member of U2start. The average age of the U2start users is 28, only users who submitted their age are included in this figure.
bootleg of the month Every month we have a bootleg in the spotlights, the current one took place on 1987-07-08 in Brussels, Belgium. You can download this bootleg, read reviews or write your own review here. You can also join the discussion on this bootleg in our forums.
"Then Bono arrived, and he meant to play the guitar, but he couldn't play very well, so he started to sing. He couldn't do that either. But he was such a charismatic character that he was in the band anyway, as soon as he arrived. I was in charge for the first five minutes, but as soon as Bono got there, I was out of a job."
- Larry Mullen jr, 1987
