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2025-01-04: Bono: Presidential Medal of Freedom
Bono. Just Bono. That’s how he was called when awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom today. Bono was one of 19 honorees today, awarded the medal by President Joe Biden. Others awarded the medal today include actors Michael J. Fox and Denzel Washington, athletes Magic Johnson and Lionel Messi, scientists Jane Goodall and Bill Nye, and former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. The...
2024-12-31: U2024: A Year in Review
Each year at the end of the year we do a little recap of things here at U2Songs. We’ll look at the releases, the radio specials, the reissues, and more in this article. Links to the earlier recaps from previous years are available at the end of the article. We take the opportunity to look back on the material added to the site over the year, and U2’s career over the twelve months, with a...
2024-12-23: New U2X-Radio Show from Adam Clayton Debuts
Here’s a little surprise before the year ends.
U2 X-Radio debuted a new show by Adam Clayton today, called “Don’t Ask Me I’m the Bass Player”.
The show is described as “Adam Clayton invites fellow bass players, across all genres, to choose their essential tracks as musicians and share the stories behind them.” The first episode saw Adam Clayton speaking with Colin Greenwood, the bass...
2024-12-21: U218 Singles on Vinyl Over the Years
Original Story: Published 2024-09-16. Updated Story: Published 2024-12-21
Here we are three months after the initial story, and we’ve identified a new 2024 pressing on black vinyl being sold worldwide. The article below has been modified to update information about this new pressing.
Note: Repressing and reissuing records is part of the record business and is done routinely when a record...
2024-12-16: U2’s Upcoming Albums and Tour
We maintain a permanent page about U2’s Upcoming Projects. With the release of How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb and Larry’s press tour for Left Behind there has been much new information from the band themselves where the upcoming albums stand, what they are working on, and with whom. As we attempt to get that page back into an updated form, we present a little look at the new album projects...
2024-12-10: Larry Mullen “One of Us” and “Between the Lines” Now Released
As of today, worldwide, Larry Mullen has released two new songs. Both are taken from the film Left Behind and have been heard in that film. Both are solo songs for Larry, working with other artists to contribute music to the film. These singles are available digitally now, on streaming services and digital store fronts.
The two songs are available as standalone singles. Each single...
2024-12-04: How to Promote an Atomic Bomb
Last Updated: 2024-12-04
Atomic Bomb Promotion
As we’ve done in the past for other releases, we’re setting up a story here, which will track U2’s appearances over the next few days from media appearances to promote the album, to stories about the album in press, to the album reviews which started appearing today.
The collection of links take you to pages outside of U2Songs.com and we...
2024-11-26: Adam Clayton Shares Tour Plans in 2026 or 2027
Adam Clayton appeared on RTL with Éric Jean-Jean today. The full interview can be heard here. Of particular note is his answer to what comes next for U2. It’s the most detailed answer to date:
We are recording, we are in and out of the studio. We really want to get a record of new songs to our audience. When we know what that record is, we’ll go out and tour it. I don’t know which year....
2024-11-20: Dolby Atmos Fan Listening Sessions
U2 have done a number of listening parties for the new “shadow album” How to Re-Assemble An Atomic Bomb in various locations around the world where Dolby Atmos enabled venues were available to show off the technology.
The first party was held on November 15, for a small group in London, England, and since that time there have been sessions in Dublin, Los Angeles, New York, Berlin, Toronto,...
2024-11-19: Larry Mullen’s Recovery
Adam Clayton appeared on Virgin Radio in Italy this morning to talk about the release of How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb later this week. Among the topics discussed is the future of the band and an update on Larry Mullen’s recovery.
Shared on the interview today, Adam Clayton said:
“During the time we were in the Sphere, Larry had some surgeries. He has made a full recovery. We recorded...
2024-11-15: Breaking Waves (Late Late, Listening Sessions, YouTube Specials)
Adam Clayton made an appearance on The Late Late Show this evening in Ireland, introduced as the “first rock god to ever appear on Gardener’s World.”
Adam talked about performing at Sphere in Vegas with the other guests, one of which had seen performances there. Adam himself said he heard from one person who saw the show that it “sounded so amazing, I could hear your bass!”
He spoke...
2024-11-13: New Release: Do They Know it’s Christmas (Ultimate Mix)
Band Aid will celebrate the 40th anniversary of “Do They Know it’s Christmas?” with a new version of the song, being called the 2024 Ultimate Mix.
IMAGE: Do They Know it’s Christmas? (2024 Ultimate Mix Vinyl)
The song will feature a mix of recordings of the song, featuring vocals recorded for the original release in 1984, the 20th anniversary in 2004, and the 30th anniversary in 2014....