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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

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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

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U2 vocalist Bono
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

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A close-up of Bono in U2's video for the song One
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

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Metallica's James Hetfield, Eagles' Don Henley and Guns N' Roses' Axl Rose
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

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AC/DC with Axl Rose
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

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AC/DC featuring Axl Rose
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

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Dave Grohl, post-fall
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

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U2 in 1987
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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U2 onstage in 2019
U2 release acoustic video of Sunday Bloody Sunday to mark massacre's 50th anniversary

By Fraser Lewry Published

U2's poignant, stripped-down version of Sunday Bloody Sunday comes 50 years after the Derry protest during which British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians

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