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  • It a Beautiful Day

    What do you know about the song “Beatiful Day”? Heres some info that you may find interesing, if you have other facts share them with us.

    “Beautiful Day” is the first song and lead single from U2’s 2000 album, All That You Can’t Leave Behind. It was a commercial success, helping launch the album to multi-platinum status, and is one of U2’s biggest hits to date. It was their fourth #1 single in the UK and their first #1 in the Netherlands, while the single also was #1 for a week in Australia. The song peaked at #21 in the U.S., the band’s highest position since “Discothèque” in 1997. The song won three Grammy Awards in 2001.

    The lyrics were inspired by Bono’s experience with Jubilee 2000, a benefit urging politicians to drop the Third World Debt.

    This is about a man who loses his material things and feels better because he realizes the value of what he has.

    U2 wrote this in stages. It changed drastically when Bono came up with the “Beautiful Day” lyric and the idea for the backing vocals.

    This was featured in television coverage of the 2000 Olympics from Australia. It was used in a nightly video recap called “Images Of The Games.” NBC made a donation to The Special Olympics in exchange for the rights to use it.

    This was one of the first major releases made available for download. Fans could stream the song from U2.com before it was released.

    A live performance was taped for British TV show Top Of The Pops on the rooftop of a hotel in Ireland that Bono and The Edge own. They also taped a performance of “Elevation” that day.

    This evolved out of a punk rock song they were working on called “Always,” which was used as the B-side to “Beautiful Day.” “Always” was included on a 2002 album of U2 rarities called U2 7. The album was distributed through Target stores.

    The video was first shown at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sep. 7, 2000.

    In England, this went to #1 its first week. It beat out a duet by Robbie Williams and Kylie Minogue which was expected to claim the top spot.

    This was the first track and first single on All That You Can’t Leave Behind. The album did much better than their previous one, Pop, released in 1997.

    When this went to #1 in the UK, Bono told BBC Radio One: “This tastes very sweet. You think to yourself, you’re a rock band, you don’t need the pop charts, but you do need the pop charts. Singles are what makes rock sharp, and we’ve not been great at singles. I can’t tell you how excited we feel, we’ve been around for a while and to hear this song on the radio, it feels very special.”

    This won 2000 Grammys for Song Of The Year, Record Of The Year, and Best Rock Performance By Duo Or Group. The album was released after the 2000 cutoff date and was not eligible for awards, but this was because it was released as a single before the date. The next year, U2 won 4 more Grammys.

    When accepting the Grammy awards for this, The Edge wore a jersey with the number 3 as a tribute to Dale Earnhardt, a race car driver who died the weekend earlier in the Daytona 500.

    U2 performed this at halftime of the 2002 Super Bowl after it won an online poll, beating out “Desire,” “Pride” and “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.” Unlike the year before, when Aerosmith was joined by Britney Spears, Mary J. Blige and Nelly, U2 had the halftime show to themselves.

    Clips of this song are used as the theme music for The Premiership, a weekly TV show in the UK which shows that covers all the English Permier League football (soccer) games.

    This song was played at the end of a Smallville episode entitled “Nicodemus,” where Clark takes Lana up on the windmill and shows her the Metropolis horizon line.

    Kurt Nilsen from Norway won the 2003 World Idol competition singing this song. World Idol brought together winners for the Idol competitions in various countries to compete against each other. 2003 was the only year it took place, and Nilsen beat 10 other contestants, including Kelly Clarkson, who placed second.

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  • U2's spiritual journey creates questions

    U2's spiritual journey creates questions 

    DateThursday, March 4, 2010 at 7:38AM

    The last of a three part series over a couple of months. Whats more taboo than drugs, sex or is God ? The unwelcomed guest in the world of rock ‘n’ roll. However that’s preciselly why Bono, lead singer of U2, finds God to be such a powerful subject for the band’s songs. “You’re in a rock band what can’t you talk about? God? OK, here we go,” he once said. “You’re supposed to write songs about sex and drugs. Well, no, I won’t.” Todays top trending conversation is #SEX and you have to wonder with the quesions posed by fans? Does U2 have a lot fo sexual references in their songs or would say that they pretty much stay on the “God” trip?

    From the band’s origins as four dreaming teenagers in Dublin, Ireland, in the 1970s to its current status as among the greatest rock bands on the planet, U2 has written and performed music shot through with a religiosity that defies easy categorization.

    On its 2001 Elevation Tour, U2 sold out arenas and stadiums around the world, using in the process a surprising amount of religious imagery. The band usually closed with “Walk On,” a song from, All That You Can’t Leave Behind. Toward the end of the song, Bono would shout “Unto the Almighty, thank you!” and lead the crowd in a chorus of hallelujahs.

    Bono and the rest of U2 would seem to fit comfortably with evangelicalism and contemporary Christian music. That placement, however, is resisted by both the evangelical establishment and the band itself. U2’s members—Bono, guitarist The Edge, drummer Larry Mullen Jr. and bassist Adam Clayton ( which has birthday this month)—drink and smoke and swear, causing some pietistic Christians to question the band’s beliefs.

    U2 doesn’t seem to care whether churches accept the band. Over  years, U2 has grown uncomfortable with organized religion, calling church life “claustrophobic” and blaming Christianity, at least in part, for dividing Ireland. “I have this hunger in me…. Everywhere I look, I see evidence of a Creator,” Bono has said. “But I don’t see it as religion, which has cut my people in two.”

    The question of U2’s religious beliefs, and the ways band members have expressed them, is the subject of a 2001 book, Walk On—The Spiritual Journey of U2 (Relevant Books), by Steve Stockman, a Presbyterian minister in Ireland. Stockman mines U2 interviews and books about the band and its music to write a spiritual companion to the band’s career.

    Stockman wrote that in U2’s early days in Dublin, Bono, The Edge and Mullen embraced a charismatic evangelical form of Christianity unusual then for Ireland. They found like-minded believers in a small group called the Shalom Fellowship. In the early 1980s, one of Shalom’s leaders declared that U2 would have to give up rock `n’ roll to please God.

    It was a crossroads for the band, and after deciding that God would rather have them play rock music than stay in the fellowship, Bono, The Edge and Mullen left. Never again would any members of U2 be formally aligned with a religious group. “For Bono, The Edge and Larry, the God that they met and have pilgrimaged with down the amazing road is a God who is bigger than church or religious boundaries,”(STOCKMAN)

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  • Concert Season Starts soon

    Remember Dallas ?

    DateThursday, February 25, 2010 at 8:07AM

    A slow news day today for the boys, everyone else has begun to talk about who has been added to the list of opening acts, done that, or talking about what Blackberry and U2 have planned, Or just throwing up some interesting facts. We thought we would go back to our concert collection of videos and pull up a show that we thought was spot on one of the best.

    U2 360 Tour Dallas TxMore than 70,000 people witnessed the North Texas stop of the Irish group’s 360 Degrees Tour. The floor, which was standing-room-only and surrounded the mammoth stage, was an ocean of human beings.

    Then we have that platform contraption. Let’s call it a spaceship merged with a spider, its four claw-like structures flanking a circular riser and an outer ring. The two were connected by movable bridges. Above the band was a spectacular rotating video screen that extended into a funnel-like cloud constantly lit for maximum effect.

    And of course, there’s Bono, Larry Mullen Jr., Adam Clayton and The Edge. These guys couldn’t be more comfortable before a humongous mass, or underneath such high-tech gadgetry. For about two hours the U2 members sang and played with passionate precision. They backed up the spectacle with plenty of dramatic substance.

    Bono was a messiah figure when he performed. Dressed in black and prone to raising his arms and tilting his head back, as if basking in the presence of his disciples, he wasted no time in preaching peace, asking for a “non-violent revolution” and turning “Walk On,” the final number before the encore, into a thought-provoking tribute to Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi.

    For sheer U2 explosiveness, we got “Vertigo,” “Get On Your Boots,” “Elevation” and “Beautiful Day.” If you wanted a good groove, they delivered with “Mysterious Ways” and “I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight.” The tunes from No Line On the Horizon, the quartet’s newest disc, blended perfectly with older material.

    One more song deserves mention: “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” an anthem that prompts fist pumping. It’s just as inspiring a song now, with all the violent political unrest in the world, as it was back in 1983 when it was originally released.

    Mullen’s militaristic drum work filled the stadium with crisp, measured marching beats. Which brings us to the sound at the venue, a constant source of argument among concertgoers. Two colleagues of mine sitting in section 449, basically nosebleed seats, said the sound was “pretty muddy” during opening act Muse. It only got “marginally better” for them during U2’s set.

    Bono’s all-you-need-is-love message may have its roots in the ’60s, but it’s a sentiment that will never get old, not when it’s delivered with such spiritual and inspiring sincerity. Like the final encore says, we all need that moment of surrender, a time when we give in to some higher power and decide to make this world a better place.

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  • U2 360 Sale Monday for Salt Lake City Show
    DateSunday, February 21, 2010 at 9:18PM
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    Tickets go on sale to the general public Monday Feb. 22 for the U2 360 tour, coming to Rice Eccles Stadium June 3. Tickets will be available through Smith’s Tix outlets, through the Smith’s Tix website or by calling 801-467-TIXX and 1-800-888-TIXX. Tickets are priced a $30-250, with at least 10,000 tickets priced at $30. General admission floor tickets will be $55. Lenny Kravitz will be the opening act.

    The Rice Eccles show will be U2’s first North American show this summer. It fulfills a promise made during the question and answer portion of the U2 3D film premiere at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, where Bono assured fans that the band would stop in Salt Lake City during their next tour.

    I saw U2 360 in October last year in Las Vegas, and it was amazing. The band was loose and playful except during serious parts of the show (political statements are always a must with U2),  and they certainly put a lot of energy into their songs, especially those from their latest CD, “No Line on the Horizon.” The 360 tour didn’t seem as thematically coherent or emotionally powerful as other U2 tours I’ve seen, but the staging and light effects were incredible. I hope Bono brings his laser suit to SLC.

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  • U2 adds opening act

    Interpol, Lenny Kravitz and The Fray added to the tour.

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    When U2 lands at Rice-Eccles Stadium on June 3, the band will have an opening act in tow — Lenny Kravitz. Grammy Award-winning guitarist/producer/songwriter was in 1998 when he appeared at the HORDE Festival at the Canyons Resort.

    Kravitz, who turns 46 in May, is a great showman and musician. I can’t wait to see him open for U2.

    Tickets will go on sale Monday, Feb. 22, at 10 a.m. at all SmithsTix locations. Tickets can also be purchased by calling 801-467-8499 or 800-888-8499 or by logging on to www.smithstix.com

    More Opening Act News

    U2 announced the support acts for this summer’s North American 360° stadium tour on their official site moments ago, and though a few of their openers are somewhat obvious picks (Lenny Kravitz, The Fray), and Interpol.

    Interpol will open for U2 at 6 dates on the 360° tour in Minneapolis, East Lansing, Toronto, Chicago, Miami and Philadelphia, while The Fray and Kravitz will open at 3 shows each. Check out the full tour schedule at U2TOURFANS.com

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  • New U2 Album Expected In June

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    Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 9:29AM

    Word is that Bono has said the next U2 album (Songs of Ascent) should be released in June, timely since the tour happens to be starting. During Bono’s interview with Sean O’Hagan he said the sister album to NLOTH would be called “Songs of Ascent” consider it to be a book end kind of like Zooropa and Achtung Baby.

    We expect to see producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois once again as well as Steve Lillywhite this power house combination has seem to work well for the boys.

    Some of the songs are expected to be the leftover tracks from ‘No Line On The Horizon’, but some are older. Songs expected to be used include ‘North Star’, an unused track from ‘How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb’. ‘Winter’, the song that didn’t make ‘No Line On The Horizon’ but was used in the movie ‘Brothers’ is expected to make the new album and ‘Kingdom Of Your Love’, heard in part of the intro music of the U2 360 Tour is also expected on the album.

    Other tracks we might find there are “Every Breaking Wave’, ‘If I Could Live My Life Again’, ‘Love Is All We Have Left’, ‘Mercy’, ‘Lead Me In The Way I Should Go’ and ‘You Can’t Give Away Your Heart’.

    Bono told the Irish Independent that the album may be out in June. ( Note the key word MAY)

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