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Releases:
Single: New version of "The Sweetest Thing" October 19, 1998(UK),
October 20, 1998(Canada)
CONFIRMED: "U2 PopMart - Live From Mexico" VHS November 3, 1998
NA, November 2, 1998 EUR.
Release of Zucchero album called "Blue Sugar" with a collaboration
with Bono on the song "Blue", November 5, 1998(EUR only?)
Also, from Oli G, who in the past has been extremely reliable with his
information. The tracklist of this video will be:
1*POP MUZIK 2*MOFO 3* I WILL FOLLOW 4*GONE 5*EVEN BETTER THAN
THE REAL THING 6*LAST NIGHT ON EARTH 7*UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD
8* NEW YEAR'S DAY 9*PRIDE (IN THE NAME OF LOVE) 10*I STILL HAVEN'T
FOUND WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR 11*ALL I WANT IS YOU 12*DESIRE
13*STARING AT THE SUN 14*SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY 15*BULLET THE
BLUE SKY 16*PLEASE 17*WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME
18*DISCOTHEQUE 19*IF YOU WEAR THAT VELVET DRESS 20*WITH OR
WITHOUT YOU 21*HOLD ME, THRILL ME, KISS ME, KILL ME 22*MYSTERIOUS
WAYS 23*ONE 24*WAKE UP DEAD MAN
This is the actual press release for the B-side tracklisting from CNN:
PRNewswire
21-SEP-98
NEW YORK, Sept. 21 /PRNewswire/-- Island Records announced today the
final track listing of the special B-Sides CD which will be included in
a limited edition version of U2 The Best of 1980-1990, due out for
release on Tuesday, November 3.
The B-sides track listing is as follows:
* The Three Sunrises
* Spanish Eyes
* Sweetest Thing (original version)
* Love Comes Tumbling
* Bass Trap
* Dancing Barefoot
* Everlasting Love
* Unchained Melody
* Walk To The Water
* Luminous Times (Hold On To Love)
* Hallelujah Here She Comes
* Silver And Gold
* Endless Deep
* A Room At The Heartbreak Hotel
* Trash, Trampoline and The Party Girl
The B-sides disk will accompany a 14 track collection of some of the
band's best known material:
* Pride (in the Name of Love)
* New Year's Day
* With or Without You
* I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
* Sunday Bloody Sunday
* Bad
* Where the Streets Have No Name
* I Will Follow
* The Unforgettable Fire
* Sweetest Thing (the single mix)
* Desire
* When Love Comes to Town
* Angel of Harlem
* All I Want is You
* One Tree Hill ( Japan/New Zealand Release ONLY)
* October
The two-disk set is being made available to retailers on a one time
only, limited edition basis and will be available to consumers at a
special low price on Tuesday, November 3 in the United States (Monday,
November 2 rest of world). Retailers will then be offered a regular
edition of U2 The Best of 1980-1990, which will not include the B-sides
bonus CD. The regular edition of U2 The Best of 1980-1990 will be
available in stores on Tuesday, November 10 in the United States
(Monday, November 9 rest of world).
/CONTACT: John Vlautin, 212-603-3933, or Karen Wiessen, 212-603-3950,
both of Island Records, Inc./ CO: Island Records, Inc. ST: New York IN:
ENT REA SU: PDT
Concerts/Live Events:
RUMOUR:
U2 at Amnesty International's 50th anniversary of the United Nations'
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) Celebration, Paris,
France, December 10, 1998.
Television/Radio Events:
Ovation TV:
On the Web page, but not yet scheduled, is "Miss Sarajevo" .
JJJ(AustralianTV) : Brian Eno on the J Files, October 8, 1998, 10pm.
Network TV:
MTV:
MuchMusic/MuchUSA:
Channel V(Australian) : U2 video special, November 14, 9:30 - 11:30pm
VH1: They are working on a U2 special. Airdate TBA.
POP-UP VIDEO airing "Stay" Saturday, October 10, 6:00 pm EDT
Net Events:
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Get Sweetest Thing on MTV! Vote at http://www.mtv.com and
click on TUBESCAN
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Vote for U2 at Triple J's(Australian Radio) poll at
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/net50/vote.htm
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U2 is featured "In the Studio" at
http://www1.rocktropolis.com/main/events/schedule.asp
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Vote for U2 at DotMusic's Top Albums of All Time (AB is #3, JT is #16)
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Vot for U2 at http://www.bradfitz.com/votingbooth?schwag402
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Fan Club/WIRE/U2 nutzoid meetings:
WIRE gathering at Alton Towers in UK, October 17, 1998
Contact : [email protected]
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18th Anniversary of U2's first performance in Canada Celebration
DEC 9th 199, El Mocambo or at a Local Theatre-TBA soon
Contact [email protected] for more information.
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NEWS dates:
Omagh, Ireland Tribute article added October 9
Salman Rushdie added October 9
More ST Wallpaper added October 9
Bono and Million Dollar Hotel on CNN Headline added October 8
More on Zucchero added October 8
U2 working post-Pop? added October 8
Article on ST video shoot added October 8
Detailed Track List added October 7
Gavin Friday's old added October 7
Best of apparently remastered tracks! added October 7
Franklin on Bono added October 7
Zucchero single scans added October 7
U2 Best of cover SCANS added October 7
U2 Best of cover pic added October 6
ST Wallpaper added October 6
One more on Gibson participation in MDH added October 6
Another article on Gibson's participation in MDH added October 6
Bono's movie added October 6
Mojo Top 100 Singers added October 6
Bono on vacation in France(no nudity :) ) added October 6
MTV Online article added October 6
Macintosh Users added October 5
Ash's Wheeler on Yes concert and U2 added October 4
Luka Bloom on U2 added October 4
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>From the BBC Online:
Stars donate songs for Omagh album
Ash, U2 and Sinead O'Connor are among the stars donating tracks to an
album in aid of an appeal fund set up to help victims of the Omagh bomb.
The Divine Comedy and the Corrs will also appear on the CD and
organisers are in talks with Boyzone as well.
A number of songs are being specially recorded for the compiliation
album which is scheduled for a November release and looks set to become
one of the biggest sellers at Christmas.
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>From Entertainment Weekly:
SONG OF SALMAN
Now that the Iranian government has lifted its long-standing death
threat (fatwa) against Salman Rushdie, we can expect the _Satanic
Verses_ scribe to get out there and beat the drum for his new novel
...perhaps literally. Holt's marketing department is trying to sell
Rushdie agent Andrew Wylie on a joint spring tour with U2, with
whom the author spent serious face time researching _The
Ground Beneath Her Feet_, a rock & roll update of the Orpheus
and Eurydice story (even popping up on stage, though not singing,
during a 1993 concert). "He has a relationship with Bono, so I
don't think it's inconceivable," says a Holt spokeswoman. Wylie
was en route to the Frankfurt Book Fair and could not be
reached, but he has reportedly pooh-poohed the idea in favor
of promotional spots with MTV or VH1. "Next year is the 10-year
anniversary of the fatwa, so there's a lot to tie into that,"
enthuses the spokeswoman. Maybe a nice Ayatollah t-shirt?
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There's a pretty high quality piece of wallpaper, with gold
bordering at:
http://members.tripod.com/~jov1/u2.htm
You can preview it at:
http://members.tripod.com/~jov1/st-prev.JPG
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There was just a piece on CNN's Headline News about Bono,
Mel Gibson, and The Million Dollar Hotel.
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More from Pierluigi on the Zucchero "Blue" single:
In an interview with Italian Corriere Della Sera, Zucchero said the
title Blu/Blue for his new single was decided by Bono, who didn't
know anyway Blu is also Zucchero's child name (8 months old).
In Paris (during soccer World Cup, in July) Bono gave Zucchero
the final lyrics for the song. Zucchero had explained Bono his
idea of a track full of hope, of rainy skies changing to blue the
day after. Italian version (written by Pasquale Panella, a well
known lyricist in Italy) has a more powerful erotic meaning, it's
more sensual. The photo for the Blu/Blue single cover was taken
by Anton Corbijn.
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>From JamTV:
U2 Begin Preliminary Work on "Pop" Follow-up
Let's face it, every day is a vacation for U2. So, what difference
does it make whether they spend it on the bleach-white beaches of
some Caribbean island, or in a recording studio jamming with
legendary producers/musicians Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois. It's
all good.
That said, U2 have been unofficially reunited with the producing
team that helped mold the sound on what are arguably the pop
quartet's best albums (1984's The Unforgettable Fire, 1987's The
Joshua Tree and 1991's Achtung Baby) in a Dublin, Ireland,
studio. According to a source close to the project, no deal is in
place between the band and producers, but both sides of the
equation began "working on ideas" last week, and "they'll probably
get to the record-making parts next year."
The current session follows the Dublin video shoot for the
single "Sweetest Thing," which will appear on The Best of
1980-1990, due out November 3.
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>From Pleeker's @U2, http://www.at.u2.com
>From Hot Press:
I'll Have Seen Everything When I See An Elephant Meet The Fly
So Says Chris Donovan as he takes up position ringside to watch
U2 shoot their new video.
Off all the bizarre sights the residents of Fitzwilliam Street have
been privy to, this is undoubtedly the first involving and Indian
elephant called Rani.
It's 9am on Sunday and while the rest of D4 is recovering from
the night before, U2 are shooting the video for their next single,
'The Sweetest Thing', which will be all over your TV screens this
weekend.
Along with our generously-trunked friend -- that's the elephant, not
Adam -- the cast of hundreds includes Jean Butler, Steve Collins,
Boyzone, the Artane Boys' Band and a moonlighting troupe of
Chippendales.
"It's like a cross between the Magical Mystery Tour and the Malteser
ad," is the verdict of one-looker who's dead chuffed having spent the
past five minutes chatting to Bono. Apart from the Garda at either
end of the road, there's little in the way of security with celebs and
fans mixing freely. A little too freely, perhaps, for Ronan Keating
who's averaging about ten autographs a minute.
"The video we shot today is completely different to that one we met
nine days ago to discuss," laughs Dreamchaser Productions' Ned
O'Hanlon. "The original plan was to do a simple studio shoot with
just the four members of the band and a two-wall set but, in typical
U2 fashion, that got scrapped with The Edge remarked, 'We out to
have Bono and Ali driving round Stephens Green in a horse-drawn
carriage.' Myself and Kevin Godley, the director are used to these
creative u-turns but one of the guys who was over with him was
horrified when somebody said, 'Yeah, and after that we can have
a herd of stampeding elephants!'"
The availability of elephants being what it is, the herd has dwindled
to just the one rock 'n' roll animal who apparently "bored" starts
getting stropping as tea-time approaches.
"As opposed to the band who've been their normal impeccably
behaved selves," O'Hanlon resumes. "Considering what might've
gone wrong, it's all gone very smoothly. We got into a rhythm of
shooting which, even allowing for elephantine tantrums, meant
we were able to get things wrapped up by the time the sun went
down."
As for the end product: "It looks like Bono and his mates made it
which is a nice contrast to the bigness of Pop. I have to live with
something for a while before I can judge it, but I think it's one of
the most successful videos they've done recently."
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TrackList from Otto:
Pride 3:48
NYD 4:17
WOWY 4:55
Looking For 4:38
SBS 4:40
Bad 5:50 - definitely the studio version
Streets 4:35 -- a whole MINUTE shorter than on JT? well, that's what
the
CD player says too. I'll have to listen to them closely and find the
differences.
I Will Follow 3:36 - I don't think I've ever heard this mixed properly.
Wow.
Unforgettable Fire 4:53
Sweetest Thing Single Mix 3:00
Desire 2:59
When Love Comes to Town 4:17
Angel of Harlem 3:49
All I Want is You 6:31 (is the time listed on the CD)
and then some silence and then October.
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Happy Birthday to Gavin Friday! :)
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