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Bono says he's sorry for putting a free U2 album on everyone's iPhone: "The part of me that will always be punk rock thought this was exactly what the Clash would do"
By Merlin Alderslade last updated
Bono has admitted that dumping a U2 album on everyone's iPhone may have not been the best of ideas

Bono reveals he's had death threats from the IRA, Dublin gangsters and the far right
By Fraser Lewry published
U2 frontman Bono reveals the threats in his upcoming memoir, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

U2’s Bono announces 14 nights of "words, music and mischief" as his Stories Of Surrender tour
By Paul Brannigan last updated
U2 frontman Bono announces shows in the UK, US, Canada, Ireland, France, Spain and Germany to promote his new book, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

The Story Behind The Song: U2's One
By Steve Baltin published
How a song inspired by artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz still resonates deeply three decades on

Metallica, Eagles and Guns N’ Roses among 2019's top earners
By Scott Munro last updated
Forbes have released their annual list of the top-earning musicians - and there are some familiar names in the top 40

AC/DC top rock rich list for 2016
By Martin Kielty last updated
Forbes magazine names AC/DC as rock’s highest-earning artists in 2016, ahead of Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney

AC/DC top rock earning chart with $67.5m
By Martin Kielty last updated
AC/DC top Forbes’ annual rock earning chart after making $67.5 in the past year – ahead of Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, U2 and Muse

7 Times Musicians Fell Over On Stage
By Chris Chantler last updated
As Gene Simmons takes another stack-heel tumble, we pay tribute to those musicians who've fallen in the name of rock... only to unsteadily rise again

How U2 looked to America for the album that turned them into the world's biggest band
By Classic Rock Magazine last updated
By 1987 U2's pedal-drenched sound was starting to sound like a quaint cliché. But with ambition now matched by maturity, they looked to America’s roots music for inspiration and made The Joshua Tree
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