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  1. I feel that a band like U2 should treat their fans like shareholders and give us a quarterly report!! (Only half joking)
  2. Originally posted by dagobah:[..]
    Your post says: Then there was atomic city + the Sphere from September - March 2023
    Should it be? Sept 2023 - March 2024


    I forgot to mention the band also developed time travel


  3. Wiki quotes this

    The single's other A-side, "How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously?", criticises the insincere humanitarian messages of a number of pop stars during the 1980s and the institutionalization of rock and roll. The band noted that "one song is about rock stars so to have a U2 song with it serves as a further comment."

    Reception and legacy

    Following the release of the single, U2 joked, "What have we done to deserve this?" Tennant mentioned to The People in 2002 that he had "managed at long last to patch things up with Bono" after meeting him at one of Elton John's homes in the south of France.


    Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_the_Streets_Have_No_Name_(I_Can%27t_Take_My_Eyes_Off_You)

    Seems that it actually was taking the piss out of U2 and Bono especially

    In retort, I remember on the Popmart tour Bono singing the "I Can't Take My Eyes Off You" refrain a few times during Streets so I think he took it on the chin though that was a long time after the PSB version released in 1991
  4. It was not Popmart but Zoo where Bono snippet Eyes of you. Rotterdam 1992 was my very first bootleg and there he did this snippet
  7. Originally posted by canadanne:[..]
    Neil Tennant has said that "the idea of applying humour to U2 seemed intriguingly sacrilegious" at the time, but that it wouldn't have worked a few years later after Bono had "shown his humorous and ironic side" on ZooTV!
    Funny how U2 have never covered or even snippeted a PSB song
  9. Bono's audio tribute to the late Kris Kristofferson is on U2 instagram

  10. The December issue (no 564 ) of Record Collector magazine on sale in UK 31st October 2024 will have a world exclusive front cover interview with U2
  11. Originally posted by ultraviolet346:The December issue (no 564 ) of Record Collector magazine on sale in UK 31st October 2024 will have a world exclusive front cover interview with U2
    Is it a recent interview? After the sphere?
  12. I don't know what the interview will be about but I guess it will be to promote the upcoming How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb album 20 year re-issue, Should be interesting!