Happy birthday Bono! Celebrating his 61st birthday today. On behalf of the entire U2start team we wish him the best of birthdays.
What is your Bono birthday wish? 🎉
60 years ago, the man who we all know as Bono was born Paul David Hewson in Dublin, Ireland. We wish him the best of birthdays and we thank him for being part of our lives in ways difficult to describe. Happy birthday! 👏 😍 🎉
🌲 The classic.
Celebrating its 35th anniversary today. U2's Joshua Tree. With possibly the best first 3 songs of any album. What an iconic album.
When was the last time you listened to it in full?
Happy birthday Bono! 63 years and counting, we all look forward to the film of the Stories of Surrender tour and seeing you in Vegas 👋
What is your favorite Bono era?
Happy birthday Bono! 🎉
Born as Paul David Hewson, our favorite singer has turned 62. What a life, what a career and here's to many more amazing years. 🥰
Happy birthday.. U2! Our favorite band got together for the first time 46 years ago today in 1976 in Larry's kitchen.
46 years.. and counting. Here's to many more years U2. 😍
What do you love most about U2?
35 years ago today U2 kick off the original Joshua Tree tour in Tempe, Arizona. With the first live performances of I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, Bullet The Blue Sky, and Running To Stand Still.
Did you see any shows in 1987? 👇
🔮 BOOM CHA!
U2' POP celebrates its 25th anniversary today. Released in 1997, it's one of U2's most experimental albums.
What's the one Pop song you would like to see live again?
With the news that the Joshua Tree documentary will be named Heartland with a performance of the song included, we can now assume that this promo photo is taken after U2 performed Heartland in the desert in 2018, with all their instruments still in hand. Quite special!
Bono met fans at gate C tonight at the Mount Smart Stadium. Took time to answer questions and sign stuff. Also answered a question for our podcast, to be published later today!
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"My position is that I write songs, I'm in a band and I just hope that when it's all over for U2, that in some way we made the light a bit brighter. Maybe just tear off a corner of the darkness." - Bono
Also worth giving a shoutout to Bram van den Berg, who on his birthday is filling in for Larry for the first time tonight and is doing a great job. “Let there be no mistake. There is only one Larry Mullen Jr.” he says as Bono introduces him.
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Celebrating his 59th birthday today: THE EDGE! 🎉
Join us in wishing our favourite guitarist the best of birthdays, staying safe and healthy. Until soon!
"My only advice to my son, who has set out on a path to make music, is: don’t listen to your dad. And he’s taking that advice! He is mildly asthmatic and he’s called his band Inhaler. Need I say more!" - Bono on Inhaler, 2019
Today we celebrate the 27th anniversary of Achtung Baby, an album highlighted near the end of the E&I tour. Will we ever see an Achtung Baby anniversary tour?
Bono and Edge played at a beach house in Cape Cod today, performing for 200 radio contest winners. They played Vertigo, Stuck, Every Breaking Wave, Summer Of Love (live debut!), Love Is Bigger & One. Video via bboydave55.
20 years ago today in 2001, U2 played Slane Castle for the first time since 1981. The start of two historic shows, with the first performance of A Sort Of Homecoming since 27 June 1987.
Who was there for one of these shows and what do you remember? 👇
Released 30 years ago today: Zooropa. One of U2's more experimental albums. Learn all about the meaning behind the songs and album:
What is your favorite song?
43 years ago today students of Trinity College witnessed a free outdoor concert of this band called U2 during their lunchbreak.
Little did they know what this band turned out to become! 🚀
"People say, 'Why don't you do interviews? What do you think about this or that?' My job in the band is to play drums, to get up on stage and hold the band together. That's what I do. At the end of the day that's all that's important. Everything else is irrelevant." - Larry
For the first time in 38 years, U2 played SECONDS live on stage. Along with Two Hearts Beat As One and Sunday Bloody Sunday as a War mini-set. Your favorite of the 3?
Can we please take a second to appreciate these huge goosebumps that shake all over our body when Edge starts playing the Streets' riff?
Welcome to The Joshua Tree.
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📸: Phil Walter
"You know, everybody is there to celebrate, and we get the party started ... and then it's the audience. It's their party. It's their music and it's gonna be amazing to see them in this building" - Adam on
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Released 35 years ago today: The Unforgettable Fire. With classics such as Pride and Bad. How does this album rank for you compared to other U2 albums? Top 3? 🤔
This is probably the last time Larry Mullen Jr. waves to the camera with a concert-featured t-shirt. Wow!
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Released today in 1987, The Joshua Tree 👏
Your favorite memory of the anniversary tour?
"We thought: let's actually write songs. We wanted the record to be less vague, open-ended, atmospheric and impressionistic. To make it more straightforward, focused and concise" - The Edge
Bono confirmed that the band is going to Vegas to play the MSG Sphere.
"It’s nothing like Las Vegas has ever seen before. This will be really extraordinary"
"I’m interested in Las Vegas for all kinds of reasons, even going back to The Fly"
Happy birthday to the one and only THE EDGE! One of the greatest guitar players of all time. The genius of the group, the magician of the band. The one who is always thinking about and working on new music. Have a great day!
Some quick photos of MacPhisto, Shadow Man, Larry with his new hair and Adam with a longer than usual haircut! 🥰
Photos taken by Remy/U2start in Auckland tonight.
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24 years ago today U2 released.. POP! 🔮
"The sequencing of songs on Pop make you get the feeling like it's gonna be a party record after the first 3 songs. Then it will turn mean on you." - Bono, 1997
"We're leaving your country now and... we don't know when we'll be back together. So thank you,thank your for being so supportive with our band for all of these years. This is One."
The last Australian show of the
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comes to an end in Perth's Oval.
📸: Remy
U2Com’s subscriber gift of 2021 is U2’s show live from at Apollo as performed and broadcasted in 2018. The gift will be an audio CD.
Like 👍🏻 or prefered something else? 👀
2 years ago today: Where The Streets Have No Name in Croke Park, Dublin. And then out of nowhere, these planes fly over to make the moment even more magical. Nothing like a homecoming show! 😍
"We want you to know that once we put another record together we would tour again. It won’t be next year but probably the year after. I think it’ll be a worldwide tour and we’ll we’ll go everywhere that we can." - Adam, November 2023
It's U2 day! Today in 1976, already 43 years ago, U2 had their first gathering in Larry's kitchen after Larry posted a notice on the Mount Temple school notice board in search of musicians. Celebrate U2 today and be thankful that they are still around 💞
📸 by Terry ONeill.
"My position is that I write songs, I'm in a band and I just hope that when it's all over for U2, that in some way we made the light a bit brighter. Maybe just tear off a corner of the darkness." - Bono
Released 29 years ago today in 1993: Zooropa!
"That's what I want the album to be. Legal drugs! Why else buy an album these days?"
Do you own a copy of this album?
Happy birthday U2! 44 years 😍
It was today in 1976 that the first meeting of the band that would become U2 is held in Larry's kitchen. In honour of U2's 40th birthday we created a slideshow with 40 years of band photos, from 1976 to 40 years later 👇
It's U2 day! Today, 25 September, U2 celebrates its 45th anniversary. Founded in 1976 in Larry's kitchen, and still going strong. Who do you want to wish a happy U2 day?! 👇
"The first song on The Unforgettable Fire, 'A Sort of Homecoming', I know backward and forward -- it's so rousing, brilliant and beautiful. It's one of the first songs I played to my unborn baby." - Chris Martin, 2004
Would you agree? One of U2's most brilliant songs? 💞
40 years old today and still young: U2's Boy! 🎉
What is your favourite track?
A special limited edition release on white vinyl will be released next month for Black Friday and Record Store Day UK 😍
"He's the perfect rock and roll baby. He sleeps blissfully all day and roars all night. Ali is a saint; I try to do my bit, but I don't have the right breasts." - Bono on Elijah, born today in 1999 🎉
Thank you all for joining us for the ride of our lives these last 4 years. Until we meet again, which might be sooner than later:
U2 crew members were asked for time commitments between August and December 2019 to bring U2 finally back to Australia.
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"I still think that Bono and Larry and Edge are the most fascinating people in my life. They constantly surprise me in terms of their insight, their development, their intelligence. When you find people like that, you hang onto them."
- Adam, 2018
Celebrating his 60th birthday today: Adam Clayton!
What a guy, what a blessing he is for U2 and us U2 fans. Happy birthday Adam, may you have a great day 💞
Just in: a great 5-star recording of U2's show on November 3rd (with the War set). Download here:
The recording is also used for this great HQ full-show video:
"The Unforgettable Fire, one of my favorite records, the songs have something, an inarticulateness that allows the spirit to soar. We are part intellect, part spirit, part physical. And music seems to water the spiritual part of us." - Adam, 2018
Released today 36 years ago 😱