Jun 17, 2013 – Bono speaks out for Voices Against Violence campaign: Rocker has added his voice to Tony Bennett's Voices against Violence campaign.[12]
Jun 03, 2013 – U2 Working On New Album With Danger Mouse: "There were shades of 'Achtung Baby,'" says longtime producer Daniel Lanois[13]
May 29, 2013 – Bono & Edge Help Celebrate Spidey's 1000th Show[14]
May 29, 2013 – Dublin's Little Museum Planning Permanent U2 Exhibit, Looking for Artifacts[15]
May 29, 2013 – Two Live U2 Songs on New Amnesty 'Get Up Stand Up' Compilation[16]
May 22, 2013 – Bono Supports Matt Damon's 'Toilet Strike' Pledge (wink-wink)[17]
May 05, 2013 – ‘Ignorant’ Bono is attacked by travel writer Paul Theroux: Paul Theroux, the celebrated travel author, criticises Bono, the U2 singer, over his views on Africa.[19]
May 01, 2013 – No sign on the horizon... as U2 tower won't get go-ahead: THE much-hyped U2 Tower has been binned by Dublin City Council.[20]
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Welcome to the latest edition of the WikiProject U2 newsletter.
This issue's theme is Rattle and Hum U2's somewhat maligned half-studio, half-live album. We hope you enjoy it!
Rattle and Hum was released on 10 October 1988.
This album was the accompanying soundtrack to the movie of the same name.
The name “Rattle and Hum” is taken from a lyric to "Bullet the Blue Sky", from The Joshua Tree, saying "In the locust wind, comes a rattle and hum / Jacob wrestled the angel, and the angel was overcome."
During the famous performance of "Pride" in the movie, Bono spray-painted a San Francisco statue with the words "Rock N Roll Stops The Traffic." This caused a fair amount of controversy, and the band had to publicly apologize and repair the damage.
During the performance of "Sunday Bloody Sunday" in the movie, Bono went into a long mid-song rant about the Enniskillen bombings earlier that week, capping the rant with a cry of "Fuck the revolution!"
The band chose to film the black and white footage over two nights Denver's McNichols Sports Arena on 7 and 8 November 1987. They chose the city following the success of their "Under A Blood Red Sky" video which was filmed in Red Rocks Amphitheatre near Denver in 1983. "We thought lightning might strike twice" said guitarist, The Edge. The first night's performance was disappointing with Bono finding the cameras infringing on his ability to play to the crowd.[21] The second Denver show was far more successful and seven songs from the show are used in the film, and three on the album.
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The first issue of the WikiProject U2 Newletter was published on 7 June 2005. Smithcool, Joelster, and Keilana served as editors from its beginnings until December 2007, when the publication of the newsletter was discontinued. Miss Bono has restarted the newsletter in 2013 with the publication of the issues eighth and the ninth editions, in May and November 2013 respectively.
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