U2

Extracted Attributes

• Genre

  Rock, Post-punk, Alternative rock

• Origin

  Dublin, Ireland

• Founded

  1976-01-01

• Members

  Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jr.

• Notable Work

  The Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby, Sunday Bloody Sunday

• Record Sales

  150–170 million units

• Grammy Awards

  22

• Live Music Revenue (1980-2022)

  US$2.13 billion

Timeline

• U2 is formed by teenage pupils at Mount Temple Comprehensive School in Dublin. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1976-01-01

• Release of debut studio album, Boy. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1980-10-20

• Release of War, the band's first UK number-one album. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1983-02-28

• U2 performs at Live Aid at Wembley Stadium, gaining global recognition. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1985-07-13

• Release of The Joshua Tree, which becomes one of the best-selling albums of all time. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1987-03-09

• Release of Achtung Baby, marking a major musical reinvention for the band. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1991-11-18

• Inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2004-11-11

• Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2005-03-14

• Launch of the U2 360° Tour, which became the highest-grossing tour in history at the time. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2009-06-30

• Songs of Innocence is released for free to all iTunes Store customers. (Source: Britannica)

  2014-09-09

• Release of Songs of Surrender, featuring 40 re-recorded tracks. (Source: Britannica)

  2023-03-17

• U2 begins the U2:UV Achtung Baby Live residency to inaugurate the Sphere in Las Vegas. (Source: Document 0c408fae-3516-4cfd-b67f-0e6ab624be7d)

  2023-09-29

U2

U2 are an Irish rock band formed in Dublin in 1976. The group comprises Bono (lead vocals), the Edge (lead guitar, keyboards, and vocals), Adam Clayton (bass guitar), and Larry Mullen Jr. (drums and percussion). Initially rooted in post-punk, U2's musical style has evolved throughout their career, yet has maintained an anthemic quality built on Bono's expressive vocals and the Edge's chiming, effects-based guitar sounds. Bono's lyrics, often embellished with spiritual imagery, focus on personal and sociopolitical themes. Popular for their live performances, the group have staged several elaborate tours over their career. The band was formed when the members were teenaged pupils of Mount Temple Comprehensive School and had limited musical proficiency. Within four years, they signed with Island Records and released their debut album, Boy (1980). Works such as their first UK number-one album, War (1983), and singles "Sunday Bloody Sunday" and "Pride (In the Name of Love)" helped establish U2's reputation as a politically and socially conscious group. Their fourth album, The Unforgettable Fire (1984), was their first collaboration with producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, whose influence resulted in a more abstract, ambient sound for the band. By the mid-1980s, U2 had become renowned globally for their live act, highlighted by their performance at Live Aid in 1985. Their fifth album, The Joshua Tree (1987), made them international stars and was their greatest critical and commercial success. One of the world's best-selling albums with 25 million copies sold, it yielded the group's only number-one singles in the US: "With or Without You" and "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For". Facing creative stagnation and a backlash to their documentary and double album Rattle and Hum (1988), U2 reinvented themselves in the 1990s. Beginning with their acclaimed seventh album, Achtung Baby (1991), and the multimedia spectacle of the Zoo TV Tour, the band pursued a new musical direction influenced by alternative, industrial, and electronic dance music, and they embraced a more ironic, flippant image. This experimentation continued on Zooropa (1993) and concluded after Pop (1997) and the PopMart Tour, which polarized audiences and critics. The group re-established a more conventional, mainstream sound on All That You Can't Leave Behind (2000) and How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004), which were critical and commercial successes. Sales of subsequent albums declined, but the group remained a popular live act. The U2 360° Tour of 2009–2011 held records for the most-attended and highest-grossing concert tour until 2019. Songs of Innocence (2014), the first of two companion albums in the 2010s, was criticised for its pervasive release through the iTunes Store. In 2023, U2 released Songs of Surrender, an album of re-recorded songs, and began the U2:UV Achtung Baby Live concert residency to inaugurate Sphere in the Las Vegas Valley. U2 have released 15 studio albums and are one of the world's best-selling music artists, having sold an estimated 150–170 million records worldwide. Their accolades include 22 Grammy Awards, eight Brit Awards, four Ivor Novello Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards. They were inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2004 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005. According to Pollstar, they were the second-highest-grossing live music artist from 1980 to 2022, earning US$2.13 billion. Rolling Stone ranked U2 at number 22 on its list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time". Throughout their career, as a band and as individuals, they have campaigned for human rights and social justice causes, working with organisations and coalitions that include Amnesty International, Jubilee 2000, DATA/the ONE Campaign, Product Red, War Child, and Music Rising.

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• U2 - Wikipedia

  U2 have released 15 studio albums and are one of the world's best-selling music artists, having sold an estimated 150–170 million records worldwide. Their accolades include 22 Grammy Awards, eight Brit Awards, four Ivor Novello Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards. They were inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2004 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005. According to Pollstar, they were the second-highest-grossing live music artist from 1980 to 2022, earning US$2.13 billion. Rolling Stone ranked U2 at number 22 on its list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time". Throughout their career, as a band and as individuals, they have campaigned for human rights and social justice causes, working with organisations and coalitions that include Amnesty International, Jubilee 2000, [...] a platinum certification in 48 hours and sold 235,000 copies in its first week, making it the fastest seller in British chart history at the time. In the US, it spent nine consecutive weeks at number one. The album included the hit singles "With or Without You", "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For", and "Where the Streets Have No Name", the first two of which became the group's only number-one hits in the US. U2 became the fourth rock band to be featured on the cover of Time "Time (magazine)") magazine, which called them "Rock's Hottest Ticket". The album and its songs received four Grammy Award nominations, winning Album of the Year and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. Many publications, including Rolling Stone, have cited The Joshua Tree as one of rock's [...] and commercial successes. Sales of subsequent albums declined, but the group remained a popular live act. The U2 360° Tour of 2009–2011 held records for the most-attended and highest-grossing concert tour until 2019. Songs of Innocence "Songs of Innocence (U2 album)") (2014), the first of two companion albums in the 2010s, was criticised for its pervasive release through the iTunes Store. In 2023, U2 released Songs of Surrender, an album of re-recorded songs, and began the U2:UV Achtung Baby Live concert residency to inaugurate Sphere "Sphere (venue)") in the Las Vegas Valley.

• U2 - Apple Music

  only seemed to get bigger and bolder: 1991’s Achtung Baby incorporated Bowie-esque character shape-shifting and influences from dark alternative rock and jagged industrial, while 1993’s Zooropa was a daring exploration of post-rave rhythms and electronic textures. Both albums bookended the groundbreaking Zoo TV tour, which redefined the stadium spectacle as a sensory-overloading, multimedia extravaganza—and presaged U2’s subsequent larger-than-life concerts, including the irony-laden PopMart Tour and the dazzling, cutting-edge visuals at the Sphere in Las Vegas. But no matter where their musical curiosities have led them and no matter how elaborate their stage shows have gotten, the members of U2 have never lost sight of their inspirational mission. Post-millennial highlights like 2000’s [...] But upon enlisting producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois on 1984’s The Unforgettable Fire, U2 traded in punk-schooled fury for celebratory civil rights anthems (“Pride (In the Name of Love)”) and slow-burn rapture (“Bad”), a transition that reached its apex on 1987’s The Joshua Tree (also produced by Eno and Lanois). With The Edge’s slashing style giving way to rippling textures, the album’s heart-racing hymns (“I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For,” “Where the Streets Have No Name”) imbued U2’s arena-sized ardor with a spiritual grace, lending The Joshua Tree a universal appeal that made it one of the top-selling albums of the decade. Comfortably nestled on their perch as the most popular rock band in the world, U2 only seemed to get bigger and bolder: 1991’s Achtung Baby [...] No band has embodied the fundamental belief that rock ’n’ roll can change the world quite like U2. As their late-’70s post-punk peers were intent on deconstructing rock music into shards of rhythm and discord, the Dublin quartet of Bono (vocals), The Edge (guitars), Adam Clayton (bass), and Larry Mullen Jr. (drums) redirected that wiry energy to more impassioned, altruistic use, transforming themselves into a generation-defining band that combined the idealistic fervor of The Clash with the game-changing pop-cultural omnipotence of The Beatles. On their 1983 breakthrough album, War, Bono emerged as alt-rock’s preeminent preacher man, his wailing voice embodying the futility of The Troubles on the raging “Sunday Bloody Sunday.” But upon enlisting producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois on

• U2 | Songs, Members, Bono, The Edge, The Joshua Tree, & Facts

  ### What awards has U2 won? U2 has won more than 20 Grammy Awards, including album of the year for The Joshua Tree (1987) and How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004). They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005. U2, Irish postpunk band that by the end of the 1980s had established itself not only as one of the world’s most popular rock bands but also as one of its most innovative. The members are singer Bono, guitarist and keyboardist the Edge, bassist Adam Clayton, and drummer Larry Mullen, Jr. Though forged in the crucible of punk rock that swept Europe in the late 1970s, U2 instantly created a distinctive identity with its grandiose sound, a merger of the Edge’s minimal, reverb-drenched guitar and Bono’s quasi-operatic vocals. Members [...] In addition to actively touring, Bono and the Edge contributed the music and lyrics to the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Originally directed by Julie Taymor, the production was one of the most expensive in Broadway history, beset with costly overruns, script rewrites, and the departure of numerous members of the original cast and crew. However, it opened to a sold-out house in June 2011 (more than a year after its scheduled debut) and ran until January 2014. Quick Facts [...] In 2014 Songs of Innocence, largely produced by Danger Mouse, was released at no cost to all customers of Apple’s iTunes Store several weeks before its physical release. The move aroused controversy but gained attention, though reviews of the actual music were mixed, with many critics complaining that the band’s sound remained static. Songs of Experience (2017) received similar critiques, but the band continued to garner high sales. For Songs of Surrender (2023) the band selected 40 of their representative tracks to re-record. The album was released alongside a documentary, Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming, with Dave Letterman.

• U2 > Band

  War featured hit singles New Year's Day (the video shot in the snow in sub-zero Sweden) and Two Hearts Beat As One while the live album Under A Blood Red Sky released that November, cracked the US Billboard Top 30. It was also the end of a chapter for the band and the beginning of a quarter century of studio collaboration with Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois. The Unforgettable Fire, recorded in a the ballroom of Ireland's Slane Castle, spawned one of U2's most iconic tracks in Pride (In The Name of Love) ... as well as a whole lot more experimentation. 'In America there was such a backlash when we put out The Unforgettable Fire,' remembers Bono. 'People thought we were the future of rock'n'roll and they went, 'What are you doin' with this doggone hippie Eno album?' 'We owe Eno and Lanois so [...] And then there was Live 8, beamed live to half the planet, and opening up with U2 performing Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band with Paul McCartney. At the 2006 Grammy ceremony, U2 took home 5 Awards, including the coveted Album of the Year for HTDAAB. These new wins brought their total number of Grammy Awards to 22, more than any other band. [...] grossing tour of the year and with the album confirmed U2 as "the greatest rock and roll band in the world." During 2005 U2 played to more than 3.2 million people. In March Bruce Springsteen inducted the band into the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame, describing them as 'the keepers of some of the most beautiful sonic architecture in the rock-and-roll world," said rocker Bruce Springsteen while inducting U2.'

• U2 - The Tears Of Things (Lyric Video) - YouTube

  Mussolini came to see me A shadow by his side Church bells ring, a vanishing Then the vanishing denied Six million voices silenced in just four years The silent song of Christendom So loud everybody hears Before the roar, before the blast The stench and shame There's a howling, wailing sound That screams your name I’m David not Goliath, I was born in Bethlehem And there is no us if there is no them My eyes were burned from all I learned There were things I can’t unsee In this your holy war There’s nothing holy here for me just The tears of things The tears of things Rising like a flood The tears of things The tears of things I’d cry them if I could [...] If you put a man into a cage and rattle it enough A man becomes the kind of rage that cannot be locked up No, it cannot be locked up No, it cannot be locked up Dear God you made us so you wouldn’t be alone Every heart is exiled until a heart gets home Don’t send us back to stone Don’t send us back to stone I was made for worship before I spoke I sang Songs of grief, of disbelief How a woman can love a man The naked song, the sacred song That every soldier fears 'Cause when people go around talking to God It always ends in tears Yeah, the tears of things The tears of things Let the desert be unfrozen The tears of things The river sings Who would choose to be chosen? River, sea and mountain Desert, dust and snow Everybody is my people Let my people go [...] Was it really you I heard? All the tears of things. The tears of things. Songs made out of rain. The tears of things. The tears of things. Here we go again. Mustin came to see me. A shadow by your side. Church bells ring vanishing and the vanishing deny. 6 million voices silenced in just 4 years. The silence on the prison so loud everybody hears before the roar before the blast. Stench and shame. There's a howling whailing sound screams your name. I'm David not Goliath. I was born in Bethlehem. Now there is no wash if there is no. My eyes were burned from all I learned. There are things I can't unsee. In this your holy world, there's nothing holy here for me. For the tears of things, the tears of things rising like a flood. The tears of things. The tears of things. I'd cry there if I

• Award

  MTV Europe Music Award for Global Icon

• Image

  

• Country

  Ireland

• Instance Of

  Q215380

• Notable Work

  New Year's Day

• Inception Date

  1/1/1976