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With or Without You: The Song U2 Almost Threw Away — and the Guitar That Played Itself
With or Without You: The Song U2 Almost Threw Away — and the Guitar That Played Itself In the winter of 1986, the biggest rock band in the world was stuck. U2 had spent months in a Georgian mansion outside Dublin, trying to make the album that would define them. They had the songs —…
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U2: The Hearts Behind the Biggest Band on Earth
The world knows U2 as the biggest band on the planet — the stadium anthems, the 22 Grammys, the tours that rewrote the record books. But behind the spectacle are four men who have lived remarkably human lives: a schoolboy romance that became rock’s most enduring marriage, a guitarist who waited years for a divorce…
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U2’s Rain-Soaked Night at Red Rocks: The Concert That Made Them Legends
Every great band has a night when everything goes wrong — and it turns out to be the best thing that ever happened to them. For U2, that night was June 5, 1983, at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre outside Denver, Colorado. The rain was relentless, a cold mountain downpour that turned the stage into a…
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The Untold Story of U2: How Four Dublin Schoolboys Became the Biggest Band on Earth
In the entire history of rock and roll, almost no band has kept the same four members from school days to superstardom. The Beatles didn’t. The Stones didn’t. But U2 did. For nearly five decades, Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr. have been the same four friends who met as teenagers in…