This makes me so happy, you have no idea.
You may recall back in October that I had questions about the August 21, 1979, show where several record company executive came to see U2 play, and the guys from EMI Records supposedly left in the middle of the show to go watch a band [...]
Many weeks ago, I asked you for your best guess on what the first entry in U2 Diary will be. You may have noticed that I never gave you the answer. I will below.
But telling you that information is not the main point of this post; the main point is to show you something you [...]
Do you all know the super-old U2 song called “Be There”? It’s appeared on a couple bootlegs, I think. Good song.
From what I’ve been able to find, U2 finished that song in March, 1982, during a studio session with Blondie producer Jimmie Destri. I’d never heard anything about how/when the song first came to [...]
Who knew?
Scott Cleaver, a U2 fan in New Zealand, sent me an article about Greg Carroll that appeared in a Maori magazine. The article is recounting Carroll’s story, which I thought I knew pretty well, until it says this:
Bono was in Texas to appear in concert with American country star Willie Nelson when the sad [...]
… was a Horslips gig in the town of Skerries somewhere around 1975 or 1976.
Little did I know that Edge (and Bono) appear in a Horslips documentary DVD called Return of the Dancehall Sweethearts, which you can read about on the Horslips web site. Maurice Linnane, ex-Dreamchaser guy, did the documentary.
You can download [...]
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