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Releases:
Omagh Tribute Album[official title TBA]: November, 1998
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 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.
RUMOUR: U2 at the Nobel Prize Presentations, Oslo, Sweden,
December 10, 1998.
RUMOUR: U2 at my house. Today. :)
Television/Radio Events:
BBC: Straight from The Edge's mouth -- The BBC are working on a
special for "Classic Albums" about the Joshua Tree. Airdate TBA
Channel V(Australian) : U2 video special, November 14, 9:30 - 11:30pm
German TV: There is a German documentation film to be shown on
October 18,1993 - a film called "The A - Z of Seperating People from
Their Money". It is "hosted" by Dennis Hopper (yet the director is
German). The film entails interviews with artist, actors, directors,
musicians. One thing is of high interest for you I guess: There is a
long interview with Bono in it, in which he talks about this thoughts
on the interplay between art and advertising. The music in this film
is by U2. This film has a total length of 170 minutes.
Channel 11(Israeli TV): U2 Live, Oct 21, 1998, 20:10 hours
Network TV:
MTV: Rockumentary Remix, Oct 20, 1998
MuchMusic/MuchUSA: Wed, Oct 21, 1998 Marvin Gaye special(
includes footage of Bono)
VH1: They are working on a U2 special. Airdate TBA.
WestWood One: Will air U2 radio special on November 10, 1998
Net Events:
Rocktroplis: Ask U2 a question!
http://www1.rocktropolis.com/main/events/u2/
SonicNet's Michael Goldberg & Gil Kaufman special guest:
Producer Steve Lillywhite
This week R'N'R Insider interviews and chats
with famed producer Steve Lillywhite, best known for
his seminal work with U2 and Peter Gabriel. Learn about
the man behind the curtain twirling knobs for platinum artists
like the Rolling Stones, Morrissey and most recently The Dave
Matthews Band. Ask him about his recent collaboration with
U2 on a new single for their forthcoming compilation release
"The Best of U2, 1980-1990.
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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:
Austrian Fan Club meeting -- Sunday, November 1st. Re: release
party for Best of album. Contact Peter Frey at
[email protected]
for more info.
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18th Anniversary of U2's first performance in Canada Celebration
DEC 9th 1998. Check out http://www3.sympatico.ca/p.m_c.c/
or email [email protected] for more information.
(Peter wants to rent a theatre to show Rattle N' Hum on Dec. 9.
The proceeds will go to the a hospital for sick children.
He is putting up a LOT of money himself and he needs 70 people to go.)
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NEWS dates:
More on Bono and the Bible added Oct 24
Cool Art Site -- a must see! added Oct 24
I didn't see it but... added Oct 23
Ask U2 a question! added Oct 23
Windmill Lane Wall being knocked down on Sunday added Oct 23
More Excerpts from Rolling Stone added Oct 22
Dotmusic on B.B. King award added Oct 22
Sometimes the little things make you laugh added Oct 22
Hewson family hosts dinner for Hume added Oct 21
Zoonation AI signing article added Oct 21
Hutch Tribute Concert -- no mention of U2 added Oct 21
Brief mention of U2 in Chemical Brothers article added Oct 21
Another rumour about U2 performing at Nobel Concert added Oct 20
Bono in Rolling Stone added Oct 20
Pic from Irish Times added Oct 20
BBC article on AI signing added Oct 20
Irish Times article on AI signing added Oct 20
Bono addresses Pinochet's arrest/AI signing added Oct 20
**THREE** not TWO versions of ST added Oct 20
More on AI signing rally added Oct 20
Don't spend too much on ST singles! added Oct 20
More Bono/Rushdie added Oct 20
The Edge and Bono for AI added Oct 19
Best of CD sleeve added Oct 19
Irish Times' articles added Oct 19
Bono on the Bible added Oct 19
Artwork for ST regular single added Oct 19
Sunday Independent apologizes to Bono for story added Oct 19
The Edge(and Bono!) featured on Dave Stewart's website added Oct 19
Brief mention in REM article added Oct 18
Rumour : U2 to perform at Nobel Ceremonies added Oct 18
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>From CNN:
Bono to Write for "Bible"
World Entertainment News Network
24-OCT-98
(OCT. 24) WENN/P - BONO TO WRITE FOR "BIBLE" U2 star
BONO is to write for a controversial publishing house which is
currently being boycotted by Christian fundamentalists. The
DESIRE singer has agreed to write the introduction to the
Book of Psalms as part of a 12-book edition of the Bible. And the
singer has described the Book of Psalms as "the original blues."
He says the U2 song 40 was actually based on Psalm 40. But
Christians protested after reading what some people had written
in their introduction and Edinburgh publishers Canongate have
been threatened with prosecution for blasphemy.
A spokesman for Canongate says, "We have no idea what
Bono will write but we imagine it will be good." The star is to be
paid $1,440 (=9C900) for his 1,500-word introduction and is
expected to have it finished soon.
(IM/WN/RXT/AFW)
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This site is really worth checking out. It has an artist's portraits of
U2. You can order prints...
http://www.visualgallery.com/U2/index.html
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I didn't actually see this, but heard about it from a few friends:
On today's Jenny Jones' show, they had a Bono impersonator,
who apparently was pretty good. If anyone saw the whole thing,
let me know how it was...
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U2 IS LOOKING FOR A FEW GOOD QUESTIONS
Got a question for U2? allstar's sister site Rocktropolis, in
conjunction
with The Album Network, is looking for a few good questions to pose to
U2
for an interview special on Wednesday (Oct. 28) from Ireland.
Fans should submit questions with their phone number of where they'll
be
between 1-3 p.m. (EST) on Oct. 28. The show will air on radio stations
nationwide on Nov. 10.
Submissions are due Tuesday (Oct. 27) at noon (EST). Fans will be
notified
that night if their question is chosen.
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>From ET Online:
Why was now the perfect time for rock supergroup
U2 to release a greatest hits compilation? While
shooting the video for the album's single, "The
Sweetest Thing," band members BONO, THE EDGE,
ADAM CLAYTON and LARRY MULLEN JR. discuss
how they assembled this anticipated collection.
Question: Why is now a good time for U2 to release this
collection?
Bono: We have to accept the fact that
there's people out there that aren't familiar
with our work in the eighties. There's a lot of
people who are into U2 that came into U2 on
"Achtung Baby" and "Zooropa." There's
something that really rings true about these
songs and it's kind of ecstatic music. That's
how I look at it. It's so high... in a good way
as in uplifting.
Larry Mullen Jr.: The whole idea behind doing this greatest
hits; and it's something that we've wanted to do for a couple of
years, just to clear out. Every band does a greatest hits
normally after two or three years. We waited a long time and it
just feels right. It's the right time for us to do this.
Question: Would you call this project a musical autobiography?
The Edge: It's not really an autobiography.
It's more just little, tiny polaroids. Just
moments captured down through that ten
year period that have remained fresh and
special and unique.
Question: How did you choose what to include?
The Edge: There's about fifteen moments that crystalized.
Fifteen songs that have, ten years later, actually stood the
test of time.
<snip>
The *ENTIRE* interview can be found at:
http://www.etonline.com/html/Interviews/2404.html
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>From Derek Mark McCallister:
Just to let you know as far as I know the famous U2 wall beside
Windmill lane Studios is being knocked down on Sunday. On tv the
other night their was an advert for 2tv a music program presented
by Dave Fanning who is also a close friend of the band. He went on
to say that this Sundays programme will be coming from Windmill
lane where the studios are located as the large wall will be
knocked down where thousands of U2 pilgrims from all over the world
have signed their names with messages to the band. If this is true
then it is fairly shit on behalf of U2 to let this go ahead as this
is the equivalent of Dublins honour to U2. It is very impressive
approx 150 metres long and about 5 meters high with some amazing
graffiti and notes on the wall along with many thousands if paper
notes stuffed into cracks and holes in the wall.If I will let you
know in next weeks news what exactly is going on.
-- Prarit....[email protected] U2 news: http://www.members.home.net/u2-news/u2.html
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