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The essential one-size-fits-all phrase U2’s Bono was given by a hard rock icon
By Niall Doherty published
U2’s frontman on being enlightened by a true rock’n’roll sage

U2 and Brian Eno are recording “some crazy kind of sci-fi Irish folk music.”
By Paul Brannigan published
U2 are working on new music, but not the kind of raw, rowdy music they've been talking up over the past few years

That time Australian dance crew Confidence Man had U2 and Noel Gallagher around to their house for dinner
By Paul Brannigan published
Fast-rising Australian dance quartet Confidence Man recall the evening they had world-famous rock stars drop around for a home-cooked meal, and things got “rowdy”

Watch a drunk U2 taunt Phil Collins
By Niall Doherty published
The Genesis frontman was tasked with presenting to an inebriated Bono & co. in 1992 and they were in a cheeky mood

Gavin Friday on what being U2’s Creative Director entails
By Niall Doherty published
The former Virgin Prune and solo artist has been U2’s official Tell It Like It Is Correspondent since the mid-80s

Producer Flood thought U2 were joking when they wanted to work with him
By Paul Brannigan published
When U2 came calling for British recording engineer Mark 'Flood' Ellis, he assumed it was an April Fool's joke

In which Bono predicts a big future for U2
By Henry Yates published
Bono predicts a big future for U2 on Under A Blood Red Sky

“Edge smacked me. It was a full-on rumble.” The night that U2 guitarist The Edge punched Bono in the face onstage
By Paul Brannigan published
U2's first US tour, in December 1980, was intense, not least when they stopped one show to brawl

"My dad said, 'Turn off the demo, just play me it on acoustic guitar and sing it'": Inhaler's Eli Hewson on the advice he got from his dad, Bono
By Niall Doherty published
The Inhaler frontman also recalls the famous faces who visited the family home when he was a kid

"The force that is in this music can never be extinguished": Read the letter U2's Bono wrote to Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love's daughter Frances Bean hailing Smells Like Teen Spirit as a song that saved his life
By Paul Brannigan published
"What a band. What a song. What a sound. What a voice."
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