STACK #158 Dec 2017

FEATURE MUSIC

dairy-free.’” Produced by Danger Mouse (a collaborator since 2010), Songs of Innocence explores the band’s youth in Ireland and pays homage to their influences. It receives wildly varying responses from critics, with some panning the album and others asserting it contains some of U2’s best ever music. May – Oct 2017 U2 stage The Joshua Tree Tour 2017, their first time touring on

The U2 360º tour (2011)

album, it debuts at #1 in 30 countries, despite some critics expressing disappointment with its perceived lack of experimentation. By its conclusion in July 2011, the album’s accompanying tour (named U2 360°, for the circular stage on which they played) was the highest-grossing and highest- attended world tour at the time. November 2013 Paul McGuinness steps down as U2’s manager, having worked with the band for over 30 years. January 2014 U2 win a Golden Globe for Best Original Song for their track Ordinary Love , from the film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom .

1987 B-side, Sweetest Thing – the single reaches Top 10 charts in the US, Australia, Canada, Ireland and the UK. October 2000 The band’s ‘back to basics’ tenth album, All That You Can’t Leave Behind , is released. It debuts at #1 in 32 countries and its lead single, Beautiful Day , wins three Grammys. The group win four additional Grammys for the album at the following ceremony. After a magnetic halftime Super Bowl (XXXVI) performance, U2 are repeatedly cited as one of the most influential and important bands in history. November 2004 The group grab hold of a harder rock edge with How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb , their eleventh studio album. It’s a worldwide success and includes the triple Grammy-winning single Vertigo . All up, the album and its singles receive nine Grammy Awards (winning every category in which Bruce Springsteen inducts U2 into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in the first year of the band’s eligibility. January 2008 U2 3D is released; it’s the first live-action, digital 3D film in the world, and is an amalgamation of performances from the 2006 Vertigo tour. February 2009 No Line On The Horizon is released. The band’s twelfth it’s nominated). March 2005

The JoshuaTreeTour (2017)

album Songs Of Innocence and release it the very same day, digitally, for free, to all iTunes customers. They are quickly criticised from many angles for the strategy; Bono later describes the incident thusly: ”We wanted to deliver a pint of milk to people's front porches, but in a few cases it ended up in their fridge, on their cereal. People were like, 'I'm

a back-catalogue album. Marking the 30th anniversary of its release, the group perform the work in its entirety at each show. 1 December 2017 The band’s fourteenth album, Songs of Experience , is released.

23 September 2014 U2 announce their thirteenth

Songs Of Experience by U2 is out now via Universal.

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