Tag: Adam Clayton
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Songs That Broke My Heart: U2’s Running to Stand Still
Moreso than most of their peers, U2 is so strongly associated with its hometown that “U2” and “Dublin” are rarely not mentioned in the same breath, often Bono’s own. He and Larry Mullen Jr. were born and raised in Dublin, Adam Clayton and The Edge grew up there, and most importantly, it’s where the four […]
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U2 in a state called vertigo: U23D
U23D is actually a fairly traditional concert movie, a mostly straight-up filmed record of a representative show of a single tour. U2 had already produced one theatrical feature film about themselves (1988’s Rattle and Hum), and released numerous productions on video and DVD before and since. So what could have been just another video of […]
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Everything You Know is Wrong: U2: Zoo TV Live From Syndey
If I could build a time machine to take me to see any band in history, it would be a trip to the early 90s to catch U2 at any point along their legendary Zoo TV tour. New to DVD, director David Mallet’s Zoo TV: Live From Sydney documents the lads’ performance in Sydney during […]