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Review by Paul Morley, NME, October 1980
I LOVE U2. I worry about U2. Hearing their debut single 'Out Of Control' and seeing them play in Ireland, I fell for their undismayed ...
Essay by Mark Cooper, Q, 1991
WHEN U2's recent Number 1 single 'The Fly' first came on the radio, it sounded like a confused mess, an irritating jangle of throbbing guitars ...
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U2/Soul Boys: Moonlight Club, London
Live Review by Paul Morley, NME, 1980
TWO NEWCOMERS playing in NW6 either side of the Xmas go slow. Plenty of gaps in the gathering for the U2 show, but of the ...
Echo & Bunnymen, U2, Delta 5: The Lyceum, London
Live Review by Chris Salewicz, NME, September 1980
ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN dwell in the magical land between life and art that is the territory of great rock'n'roll. Making music alone isn't enough ...
U2: Kings of the Celtic Fringe
Interview by Gavin Martin, NME, February 1981
BONO VOX, a.k.a. Paul Houston, the frontman and driving force behind U2 is huddled in the back of a small van, wrapped in a fur ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, NME, October 1981
WHEN U2 first hit England in the twilight of 1980, a dull cry of relief rose up from rock's murky depths. U2 were "just what ...
Report and Interview by Richard Cook, NME, February 1982
"THEY WENT right through it. Took out every sock. Squeezed every tube of toothpaste. Then this guy says to me 'You – come with me. ...
Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, March 1982
PEOPLE HAVEN'T asked U2 if they're the future of rock. They've told them. ...
Review by Gavin Martin, NME, February 1983
"If people come along expecting the world from U2 then they're gonna get it. I'm not afraid we won't be able to give it to ...
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, May 1983
JERRY MATHERS' days as TV's beloved Beaver were numbered the second his voice began to crack and change, and U2's new War may force similar ...
U2: Small Victories in a Rock and Roll Struggle of Sound and Emotion
Report and Interview by Fred Schruers, Musician, May 1983
STUMPY, PRINCELY Bono Vox drives along Dublin Bay, left arm grasping the wheel of his humble sedan while he uses the right – temporarily game ...
U2/Simple Minds/Eurythmics/Steel Pulse/Perfect Crime/Big Country: Phoenix Park, Dublin
Live Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, August 1983
DATELINE DUBLIN: 3.30am Monday. There will no doubt be some measured reports of U2's home-coming gig. But I really hate measured reports. ...
U2, Simple Minds, Eurythmics, Big Country, Steel Pulse: A Day At The Racecourse
Report by Dave Rimmer, Smash Hits, September 1983
A long, hot, emotional day it was too. Dublin's Phoenix Park throws open its gates to U2, Simple Minds, Eurythmics, Big Country and about 20,000 ...
Songs Of Praise: Fire and Fervour from Ireland’s U2
Profile by Steve Turner, History of Rock, The, 1984
U2, ONE OF IRELAND'S MOST SUCCESSFUL rock bands ever, seemed something of an anachronism when they arrived on the scene in 1980. The group had ...
Report and Interview by Tony Fletcher, Jamming!, October 1984
Excepting live albums and video, U2 have been silent, both on record and in the media, for a year and a half. Now back with ...
Interview by Gavin Martin, NME, October 1984
EARLIER THIS year one of rock's newest messiahs U2's Bono appeared onstage alongside one of its oldest, Bob Dylan at an outdoor Dublin festival in ...
Epic Affirmation: U2 and Big Country
Essay by Barney Hoskyns, New Statesman, November 1984
WITH ALL THE hype of chart pop proving more contagious that ever, what chance does the passionate old dream of rock now stand? If Jon ...
Live Review by David Quantick, NME, November 1984
THE MOST boring band in the world. There can now be no question of U2 avoiding such a title. There may be groups equally as ...
At The Homecoming: U2’s Unforgettable Fire
Review by Adam Sweeting, Melody Maker, 1985
THIS HAS BEEN a long time coming, and there have been signs of strain. War, U2's last album of new material, was released more than ...
Brian Eno: Music Without Compromise
Interview by John Hutchinson, Mix, February 1985
BRIAN ENO IS something of a paradox. He is at once associated with the avant-garde and an artist/producer who has actually had his share of ...
Flags And Penance: U2'S American Dream
Report and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, NME, June 1985
IT IS SOME WAY into a U2 set at the vast Veterans' Coliseum in Hartford, Connecticut, and the place is strewn and bedecked with the ...
Interview by John Hutchinson, Musician, September 1986
"I DON'T REALLY see myself as a guitar player," says U2's Edge. "I'm more of a songwriter or composer. In looking for a new way ...
Review by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, March 1987
BARKING AT THE MOON ...
Profile and Interview by Robin Eggar, Observer, The, April 1987
In Dublin they joke that Bono, lead singer of the rock band U2, has God's phone number. Not for U2 groupies, drugs or a limo ...
Interview by John Hutchinson, Musician, May 1987
U2 Wrestle With Their Moment Of Glory ...
U2: Another Day, Another Dollar
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Q, July 1987
WHEN U2 FIRST played Chicago, in the spring of 1981, it was as part of a loss-making tour. They played one club and a university ...
Live Review by Roy Trakin, Creem, August 1987
U2: Los Angeles Sports Arena, April 17-22, 1987 ...
The Unforgettable Band: A U2 Overview
Overview by Kris Needs, Creem, August 1987
MAY 1, 1980, AND I'm sitting on a plane bound for Dublin. Next to me, the Island Records publicity man is telling me about the ...
Retrospective and Interview by Karen Schlosberg, Creem, August 1987
SHERMAN, INTO the Wayback Machine. The year: 1981. A young Irish quartet called U2 is promoting its debut album, Boy. Its lead singer is simply ...
U2's Journey Through The Past: Rattle and Hum
Review by Geoffrey Himes, Washington Post, The, October 1988
BY THEIR OWN admission, the members of U2 had little sense of history when they started making music. Like so many of their generation, the ...
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Sunday Express Magazine, October 1988
Until the huge international impact of U2, the upper rungs of rock’n’roll had been almost totally dominated by musicians from Britain and America. For a ...
U2: 'In Ireland People Are Scared of Success...'
Interview by Jack Barron, NME, October 1988
THE FULFILLMENT of any U2 project will always set tongues a-wagging in Dublin. Aside from being one of the country's major industries, the quartet are ...
Report and Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, October 1988
FOR HOURS, the same shot repeats over and over on a massive screen in a high-ceilinged editing room in Studio City, just a traffic jam ...
U2: Rockin' in the Not So Free World (Part 1)
Report by Gavin Martin, NME, December 1989
Yen will I see you again?!!...In the first of an exclusive two part report on the band that more than any other has found a ...
U2: Rockin' in the Not So Free World (Part 2)
Report by Gavin Martin, NME, December 1989
BONO'S OSAKA Plaza hotel room is littered with the ephemera of a rock 'n' roll traveler. There are Japanese picture books for his baby daughter ...
The Irishness on the Inside of Bono and U2
Essay by Steve Turner, Independent, The, April 1991
There is a shop off Dublin’s O’Connell Street called Bonavox Hearing Aids. It has a neat window display featuring bean-sized aids in velvet presentation boxes ...
Profile by Sean O'Hagan, Guardian, The, November 1991
All but canonised in Ireland, U2's lead singer preaches redemption through rock 'n' roll. But now he's learning to write about girls. Sean O'Hagan profiles ...
Daniel Lanois and U2: Five Men and Achtung Baby
Interview by Max Bell, Vox, December 1991
The new U2 album — released on November 18 — is "rougher and harder-hitting than anything we've done before" …Producer Daniel Lanois talks to Max ...
Review by Mat Snow, Q, December 1991
WITH EACH NEW U2 album there has been a growing buzz of anticipation, a sense of event stoked by the way the band has stamped ...
Review by Max Bell, Vox, December 1991
BONO VOX once mentioned in passing that if and when he ever published a volume of his poetry, the title of said tome would be ...
Review by Mark Cooper, Q, January 1992
WHEN U2'S RECENT NUMBER 1 single 'The Fly' first came on the radio, it sounded like a confused mess, an irritating jangle of throbbing guitars ...
Report and Interview by Sean O'Hagan, Face, The, April 1992
IT'S EARLY evening in a Russian restaurant somewhere in west London, a place that specializes in vodka – chili vodka, lemon vodka, brandy vodka, even ...
U2: Flying High With a Jet Set
Report and Interview by Robert Sandall, Sunday Times, May 1992
HAVING, BY his own account, spent most of the 1980s "trying to dodge being a rock star," Bono aka Paul Hewson, the singer and most ...
Report and Interview by Sean O'Hagan, Details, September 1992
With Achtung Babyand their Zoo TV tour, U2 have found a way to be the biggest band in the world and still have fun. Sean ...
Public Enemy and U2: The Chuck and Bono Show
Interview by Max Bell, Vox, December 1992
When U2's tour brought Public Enemy to the Deep South, where segregation is still an issue, Chuck D did his best to pour napalm on ...
Negativland: A Fistful Of Lawsuits
Report and Interview by Tony Fletcher, Creem, April 1993
"I don't think there are any record companies right now in the real sense of the word. We're all in the fashion business. You used ...
Report and Interview by Paul Lester, Melody Maker, June 1993
Stereo MCs are already one of the biggest (dance) bands in Britain. By the end of the summer, after touring Europe with U2, unarguably the ...
U2: I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night
Report and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, September 1993
It seemed like such a good idea at the time: serenading Axl Rose; sleeping in an igloo; drinking the swimming pool; licking the promoter; blowing ...
Review by Mat Snow, MOJO, March 1997
U2 have a fine sense of event and how to tweak it. Preceded by advance publicity suggesting more than enough stylistic innovation to maintain the ...
U2 Part One: 'Only Now Do We Look Cool'
Report and Interview by Keith Cameron, NME, March 1997
But that's not all that's changed. Yes, you read it here first...U2, those hoary old rock behemoths, have gone dance! Sort of! ...
U2 Part Two: 'I Feel Caught Between the Bootboy and the Ponce'
Report and Interview by Keith Cameron, NME, March 1997
Ah, the problems of being the biggest band in the world. In the second of a two-part special, Keith Cameron keeps up with U2 as ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Rolling Stone, March 1997
IT IS HARD to believe we’re a whole decade away from The Joshua Tree – U2’s very own Born In The USA, its Purple Rain, ...
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Melody Maker, September 1997
Mart For Art's Sake ...
U2: The Year of Living Dangerously
Report and Interview by Andrew Mueller, The Irish Independent, December 1997
U2 started '97 badly, but their annus horribilis has undergone a miraculous recovery. Interview: Andrew Mueller ...
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, December 1998
It is the '80s, and the decade is full of one Irish band and their guitarist's exotic millinary. So, follow Edge through the first ever ...
Retrospective by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, November 1999
Twenty years ago next month, four teenagers from Dublin played their first British date in a north London pub, in front of less than a ...
Review by Mat Snow, MOJO, October 2000
WITH EACH new U2 album there has been a growing buzz of anticipation, a sense of event stoked by the way the band has stamped ...
U2: All That You Can't Leave Behind
Review by Andy Gill, Independent, The, October 2000
HAVING SPENT the majority of the past decade searching for ways to rejuvenate the jaded stadium-rock formula — as much for their own benefit as ...
Interview by Jeff Apter, Rolling Stone (Australia), November 2000
This interview was held in conjunction with the theatrical release of The Million Dollar Hotel in Australia. ...
U2: All That You Can’t Leave Behind Richard Ashcroft: Alone with Everybody
Review by The Rev. Al Friston, Rock's Backpages, December 2000
WE WERE assured that Dublin’s finest would be going back to basics on All That You Can’t Leave Behind; that they’d dispensed with the electro-trappings ...
U2: All That You Can't Leave Behind
Review by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, December 2000
Corn without authenticity. Bono and Co rediscover the importance of being earnest ...
Various Artists: America: A Tribute To Heroes
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, March 2002
Star-Spangled Bummer: Record of benefit concert/telethon for victims of September 11 ...
Report by Phil Sutcliffe, Payday, March 2002
"WE'RE NOT GOING to let people rip us off, we want the money!" That's what Bono said in 1979 when Dublin's teenaged hopefuls U2 were ...
U2 and the Making of Achtung Baby
Retrospective and Interview by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, November 2004
TOYKO, LATE 1993, somewhere in the fast-forward blur of the dying 20th century. As the biggest, loudest, most expensive and technically ambitious rock tour in ...
U2: City of Manchester Stadium
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, Times, The, June 2005
STILL THRILLING huge audiences more than 25 years into their career, U2 become ever more impressive in their longevity, integrity, capacity for reinvention and willingness ...
Interview by Paul Morley, Observer Music Monthly, December 2005
1: IN A VAST penthouse suite on top of a hotel that could be anywhere in the world overlooking a city that seems to shimmer ...
U2: Remembering The Unforgettable Fire
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, June 2009
YOU TOO COULD love U2, if you could only transport yourself back to a time when their fundamental pomposity and crusading bad faith weren't such ...
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Quietus, The, August 2009
U2 Live Under A Slate Grey Claw. Chris Roberts reports from Wembley ...
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