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U2 in 1981
"Edge left the band. He was feeling that he couldn't serve both god and man. I decided I couldn't either. So we both quit."

By Paul Brannigan Published

Fears that Christianity was incompatible with life in a rock band caused much soul-searching for U2 in the early '80s, and almost led the band to break up

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Bono
"It’s the sound of four men who feel like their lives depend on it." Bono gives update on U2's next album

By Paul Brannigan Published

"You’ve got to deal with the past to get to the present, in order to make the sound of the future" says Bono

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Bono
Watch the trailer for Bono: Stories of Surrender, a new documentary based on U2 frontman Bono's one-man show

By Paul Brannigan Published

Bono: Stories of Surrender will premiere globally on May 30 on Apple TV+

Documentary
Compulsion group portrait
"Britpop was the Make America Great Again of its day, xenophobic, misogynist, just horrible. We hated it, and it fuelled our anger."

By Paul Brannigan Published

Garret 'Jacknife' Lee is one of the world's most respected producers due to his work with U2, R.E.M.,Taylor Swift and more. But 30 years ago he and his brilliant band Compulsion hated everyone and everything

Interviews
Robert Smith, Lauren Mayberry, Bono
How your purchase of albums by The Cure, U2, Chvrches and more on Record Store Day can help benefit children living in war zones worldwide

By Paul Brannigan Published

Buy a vinyl record on Record Store Day, help a good cause: win-win

Albums
Sleeves from some of the best seventh records ever
I’ve just discovered how many classic seventh records exist and it’s blown my mind... allow me to introduce the magnificent seven

By Niall Doherty Published

Are you aware of how many incredible seventh records there are? Introducing the magnificent seven...

Albums
Lady Gaga in 2024, Bono in 1989 and Robert Plant in 1973
Lady Gaga used to front a classic rock band who covered U2 and loved Led Zeppelin

By Matt Mills Published

The pop megastar talks about her early days singing classic rock tunes on the new episode of Hot Ones

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Bono and Ian Curtis
“It was like there was two people inside of him.” U2's Bono on the night he met Ian Curtis

By Paul Brannigan Published

“This band had at its very core a contradiction…”

Interviews
U2 onstage
U2's Bono on the game-changing "genius" musician he views as an "exorcist"

By Paul Brannigan Published

U2 may have emerged in the post-punk era, but the Dubliners looked deeper into the past for inspiration

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Bobo, hands clasped in prayer, receives Presidential Medal of Freedom from Joe Biden
"Frontmen don't do humble, but today I was": Bono receives Presidential Medal of Freedom from Joe Biden

By Fraser Lewry Published

The U2 frontman received the Presidential Medal of Freedom during a ceremony at the White House

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