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2025-04-18: Breaking Waves…Edge on the new album, Fake news, Record Store Day
Yesterday, The Edge joined Jenny Huston on U2 X-Radio for a short chat. They discussed the How to Re-Assemble An Atomic Bomb release, Edge’s new feature on the station “Best Ever Guitar Sound”, and they talked about U2’s new album. The show can be heard on demand on U2 X-Radio, but as we know many of you cannot access the station where you live, we’ll provide some of the quotes pertaining to...
2025-04-17: Bono to appear on next Lil Wayne Album
In a new cover story in Rolling Stone today, it is revealed that Bono will make an appearance on Lil Wayne’s new album:
One big Billboard-chart swing I hear is “These Are the Days,” featuring Wayne’s son Kameron and Bono. The U2 vocalist sings about “counting the days,” while Wayne raps about being in a hospital bed after one of the numerous epileptic seizures he’s had since childhood. (As...
2025-04-16: Bono Co-Writes Garrix’s “Weightless”
Martin Garrix has teamed up with Arijit for a second single, released on April 11, called “Weightless”. Like their earlier song, “Angels for Each Other”, released in March, Bono is once again listed with a writing credit on the song. The credits for writing are Arijit Singh, Benson Boone, Giorgio Tuinfort, JUNO, Martijn Garritsen, Paul David Hewson and Simon Edmund Carmody. The song was...
2025-04-12: 5 Albums: Original Soundtracks 1
With the Passengers album Original Soundtracks 1 (OST 1) celebrating its 30th anniversary this year with a brand new vinyl reissue for Record Store Day, we thought it would be a good time to resurrect the 5 Albums series for a look at the team who first brought that controversial project to life back in 1995. Here are five Passengers-adjacent projects that you definitely need to check out!...
2025-04-07: U2Songs Celebrates 30 Years
Thirty years seems like yesterday but it wasn’t…
April 7, 1995 was the day I first put “Aaron’s U2 Cave” online. It has been online continuously since that time. It was a class project that grew into a lifetime hobby for me. 2025 marks 30 years since this project started. It’s also been 25 years since we registered our first domain at U2Wanderer.org, and 10 years now since we moved...
2025-04-06: Passengers at 30: Song by Song
On September 13, 1995, a press release from Island Records confirmed a new album by Passengers. Who? The press release states, “Bono, Adam Clayton, Brian Eno, Larry Mullen Jr. and the Edge have formed a loose collective known as Passengers. On their first album they are joined by Mo’Wax maestro Howie B., Japanese singer Holi and opera legend Pavarotti. Entitled Original Soundtracks 1, it...
2025-04-04: Breaking Waves…podcasts, Gavin Friday, V-U2 merch and more…
Gavin Friday has been in the news lately. He is currently touring for his album Ecce Homo. He is about to play his first show in London in 17 years at the EartH venue on Sunday (tickets), and finishes up with two shows in Ireland next week in Dundalk (tickets) and Dublin (tickets). Bono and The Edge took in the show at Republica da Musica in Lisbon in March. Bram van den Berg, who filled in...
2025-03-28: Bono co-writes new Martin Garrix Song
Earlier this week, Martin Garrix appeared on De 538 Middagshow to discuss his new song with Arijit Singh, “Angels for Each Other”. When talking to the hosts, Garrix explained “Bono helped with my singing technique, with breathing, and with lyrics. I’ve worked with him and The Edge a lot. And also recorded a lot of demos. And he’s been pushing for 3 to 4 years for me to release a song with my...
2025-03-23: U2’s “How to Re-Assemble An Atomic Bomb” Song by Song
In 2025, Fonthill Media published U2: Song by Song, written by Aaron J. Sams. (Yes, that is me.) The book has been out for about a year now. Written in 2021, the book covered U2’s song output from Boy through to the release of “Atomic City” with a look at each album release and the related songs from the era.
In 2024, U2 released How to Re-Assemble an Atomic Bomb, a companion to the 20th...
2025-03-06: Bono’s Surrender Japan release, Accessing Apple TV+ and more
Along with his Stories of Surrender film debuting in May on Apple TV+, Bono is releasing new versions of his autobiography.
First up we have information on the long awaited Japan translation of his book. The translation by Kenji Kurashina and Yayoi Sato will arrive on May 21, 2025, and will be published by Hayakawa Shobo. ISBN for this version is 9784152104304 and the book is appearing for...
2025-02-26: Bono Stories of Surrender and new version of book in May
Update: February 26
The new version of Bono’s book Stories of Surrender will be released May 27, 2025, and will accompany the film Stories of Surrender which debuts on Apple TV+ on May 30.
The description of the book is as follows:
A revised edition of Bono’s extraordinary, bestselling memoir to accompany the upcoming Apple Original Films documentary Bono: Stories of Surrender. The...
2025-02-26: Filming Surrender
Update: February 26, 2025
The film Stories of Surrender has been officially announced for May 30 on Apple TV+. It will be the first feature-length film in Apple Immersive on Apple’s Vision Pro system as well, available the same day.
A new soft cover edition of Bono’s autobiography is expected in stores on May 27, titled Stories of Surrender. For more on the new version of the book...