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Post by winner2000 on Jun 1, 2006 18:08:53 GMT -5
U2 to work on new album this summer
By JAM! Music
U2 are plotting a return to the studio this summer to work on the follow-up to 2004's "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb."
In an interview conducted last week with the U.K's Guardian newspaper, Bono revealed that he has been writing a number of songs geared for the next disc.
"I've got a lot of songs, oddly enough, from taking piano lessons," he said. "My kid's piano teacher, Dawn, has been teaching me the piano. And every time she gives me a lesson, I write a new song. So next week, when (the band and I) meet up, I have all these songs to play for them. So I'd like to thin out my schedule in terms of the politics and activism and just get lost in the music again - that's what I'm really looking forward to for the summer."
No release date has been announced for the album.
Recently, Bono has put his music career on hold to concentrate on his humanitarian mission in the U.S. and Africa to create global AIDS awareness through his initiative Product RED.
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Post by Ezekiel 23:20–21 on Jun 1, 2006 19:23:11 GMT -5
It feels like How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb just came out even though it's been a couple years!
I'm ready for some new stuff.
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Post by friday on Jun 1, 2006 20:06:13 GMT -5
so we already know the winner of song/record/album of the year of 2008 grammy..rsrs No we don't - they haven't released the tracklistings yet. ;) I'm definitely keeping my eye on this. I thought How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb held up superbly to All That You Can't Leave Behind. They really can't do wrong right now, and I think they're in a tremendous groove. Should be fun to see what they come up with. |
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Post by EmersonDrive13Rocks on Jun 1, 2006 20:19:34 GMT -5
so we already know the winner of song/record/album of the year of 2008 grammy..rsrs No we don't - they haven't released the tracklistings yet. ;) I'm definitely keeping my eye on this. I thought How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb held up superbly to All That You Can't Leave Behind. They really can't do wrong right now, and I think they're in a tremendous groove. Should be fun to see what they come up with. I agree. U2 is in the groove. I completely love both of the last 2 albums. Most likely they will win more Grammys from it. |
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Post by robbie23 on Jun 1, 2006 20:23:44 GMT -5
now THAT was the best concert i ever went to! very good cd but they are just amazing live
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Post by singingsparrow on Jun 2, 2006 1:13:18 GMT -5
so we already know the winner of song/record/album of the year of 2008 grammy..rsrs No we don't - they haven't released the tracklistings yet. ;) I'm definitely keeping my eye on this. I thought How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb held up superbly to All That You Can't Leave Behind. They really can't do wrong right now, and I think they're in a tremendous groove. Should be fun to see what they come up with. There may be no official word on official tracks that will appear on their next record, but we do know these hints: * 1) Bono said that the band will experiment with new ideas inspired by hip-hop music on the next record, after touring with Kanye West. 2) There are some rumored tracks for the next album, some of which are from the HTDAAB recording sessions: * "North Star": A Johnny Cash tribute song.
"Lead Me In The Way I Should Go"
"You Can't Give Away Your Heart"
"Mercy": Said to be a 6 1/2 minute intense epic.* Sincerely, Noah Eaton |
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Post by EmersonDrive13Rocks on Jun 3, 2006 3:30:42 GMT -5
Sounds like some good track titles so far if those are the actually tracks.
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Post by AutomaticBR on Jun 4, 2006 16:18:26 GMT -5
dunno if it was already posted, but...
"How to dismantle an atomic bomb" sales in Brasil :: 250,000 (2x Platinum)
one of the (if not THE) best selling international albums of the last years here
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Post by MusicJunkie on Jun 4, 2006 16:40:29 GMT -5
Looks like this will be another amazing record from them. Can't wait to hear that 6 1/2 minute epic. I love long songs like that.
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Post by beaston on Jun 4, 2006 16:41:26 GMT -5
I can't wait for this.
Loved How to Dismantle An Atomic Bomb.
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Post by singingsparrow on Jun 4, 2006 23:11:45 GMT -5
Looks like this will be another amazing record from them. Can't wait to hear that 6 1/2 minute epic. I love long songs like that. Perhaps "Mercy" will be their "Bad" of the 21st century. Sincerely, Noah Eaton |
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Post by reception on Sept 23, 2006 15:22:33 GMT -5
Sep 23, 3:28 PM EDT
A Lucky Few Get Signed Copies of U2 Book
DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) -- So many people showed up at a signing for U2's new book Saturday that organizers had to restrict access to 250 fans who had won tickets through a lottery on the band's official Web site and via competitions on radio stations across Ireland.
All 250 were waiting inside Eason's, Ireland's largest bookstore, when the four bandmates - vocalist Bono, guitarist The Edge, bassist Adam Clayton and drummer Larry Mullen Jr. - arrived to put their signatures to copies of "U2byU2," a coffee-table book that went on international sale Thursday.
Bono made no formal comments at the private signing, and journalists weren't admitted, although photographers were allowed.
Outside in the rain, police and crash barriers kept about 1,000 fans at bay on O'Connell Street, the major thoroughfare in Dublin.
Most celebrities pushing books in Ireland do book signings at Eason's. But this was the first time that organizers decided to issue admissions by lottery to prevent crowd chaos.
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Post by Devil Marlena Nylund on Sept 23, 2006 16:59:09 GMT -5
There's a song with Green Day on the new one.
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Post by Love4Shania on Sept 23, 2006 17:11:54 GMT -5
I'm surprised 'Mercy' didn't make the HTDAAB cut...it's better then all the songs on that album.
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Post by Jennifer on Sept 23, 2006 17:39:31 GMT -5
U2 are ova.
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Post by Devil Marlena Nylund on Sept 23, 2006 23:10:22 GMT -5
...says someone with a bunch of Britney pics for avatars and signatures. ;)
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Post by Jennifer on Sept 23, 2006 23:13:57 GMT -5
Brit is gonna make a HAWT coemback next year! you betta get ready for it.
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Post by EmersonDrive13Rocks on Sept 24, 2006 3:22:00 GMT -5
Britney is OVER!!! U2 is still rocking!!!
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Post by vinyl on Sept 24, 2006 9:46:58 GMT -5
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Post by MusicJunkie on Sept 24, 2006 9:49:08 GMT -5
Ugh. Whatever Jennifer. Watch when they another 3 million with this album!  |
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Post by babyboylrtm on Sept 24, 2006 9:51:13 GMT -5
As long as they don't win another AOTY it's good  ! |
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Post by Love4Shania on Sept 24, 2006 13:40:26 GMT -5
Brit is gonna make a HAWT coemback next year! you betta get ready for it. We'll all have our earplugs ready. |
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Post by music on Sept 24, 2006 14:57:46 GMT -5
HTDAAB sold over 10 million world wide... Britney hasn't done that since OIDIA... You were saying? |
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Post by banet2001 on Sept 24, 2006 15:44:00 GMT -5
LOL. U2 made $154.2 million in 2005. I doubt Britney ever made that much in a year, even in her peak years. |
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Post by reception on Sept 25, 2006 13:47:05 GMT -5
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Post by reception on Sept 25, 2006 14:56:33 GMT -5
 Bono takes an opposing view from his U2 bandmates Larry Mullen Jr. (left) and The Edge as the rockers sit down to a really good read – their autobiography U2 by U2 – at a London bookstore on Friday. |
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Post by reception on Sept 27, 2006 12:39:20 GMT -5
 U2's Bono and the Edge make it a Green Day as singer Billie Joe Armstrong (center) joins them at halftime Monday night during the New Orleans Saints-Atlanta Falcons game at the Superdome – the first home game since Hurricane Katrina. |
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Post by Roman Candle on Dec 30, 2006 14:55:28 GMT -5
From billboard.com:
With its monster-selling Vertigo tour complete, U2 is ready to reinvent itself, frontman Bono said during a BBC Radio interview earlier this week. "Our band has certainly reached the end of where we've been at for the last couple of albums," he said. "I want to see what else we can do with it, take it to the next level; I think that's what we've got to do."
Asked by interviewer Jo Whalley if that might mean a move away from rock'n'roll, Bono replied, "We're gonna continue to be a band, but maybe the rock will have to go; maybe the rock has to get a lot harder. But whatever it is, it's not gonna stay where it is."
He went on to reveal he'd like U2 to explore compositions featuring just voice and acoustic guitar. "I would like to do a couple of tunes in that direction, with just a lot of space around the voice," he said. "I'd like to strip things down; that's something I'd be very interested in at the moment."
U2 is expected to get busy in the studio after the New Year, with an eye on releasing a new album before the end of 2007. Bono said casual fans were the target for the recently released compilation "U218 Singles," which also includes two new songs.
"We've never been much of a singles band," he admitted. "But we did it because we have a very young audience coming through, and we wanted to, you know, just be very available for people who want to check us out, you know? We wanted to have something they could check us out very easy on."
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Post by cyrax on Dec 30, 2006 16:13:05 GMT -5
The acoustic direction would be nice indeed!
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Post by Roman Candle on Mar 30, 2007 0:32:04 GMT -5
This has been buried too long...anyone have any news on them?
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