Bono recently travelled over to the UK (Liverpool specifically) to award Paul McCartney and the rest of the Beatles with MTV Europe’s “Ultimate Legend” award. While handing the award over he stated, “In the universe of rock and roll, the Beatles were the Big Bang.” Then he… I’m sorry. Hold on a second. Isn’t Ireland in Europe? Why didn’t Bono get something too? Or better yet, just take that award…

The band has dismissed any concerns about the four track from their soon to be released album having reached the internet. The song’s which were reportedly titled “Moment of Surrender,” “For Your Love,” “Sexy Boots” and “No Line on the Horizon” were of very very poor sound quality. They were removed from YouTube soon after copyright violation complaint filled by Universal. They were reportedly recorded by a Dutch fan from outside Bono’s apartment in the French Riviera. The band spokesman said that even though the song’s were barely audible, the amount of media coverage and publicity that it got hinted at the extreme amount of jealousy.

The Irish pop band group U2 who are in the news for one reason or the other has again come into the limelight and this time it is the release of their June 5^th, 1983 classic concert held at Colorado that will be released for the first time on DVD on the 30^th of September. The same concert was earlier released on the VHS in late 80’s. The DVD version will comprise of 5 songs that have not been included in the VHS tape. The concert was titled “Live At Red Rocks” and the VHS was very popular among the U2 fans. There is no doubt that the DVD will also be in great demand once it is released. 

Bono, the front man of the world famous music rock band U2, is all praise when it comes to the lead guitarist of the band and calls him the genius in the U2 band. Bono says that he really admires by the presence of other two mates, drummer Larry Mullen Jr and bassist Adam Clayton, but feels that Edge has some real edge over the other members of the band. The Edge is an epitome of music and adds color and vigor to the band. He creates tunes at will and has the knack of coming up with soulful tunes when the chips are down in the recording room.

The forthcoming Broadway musical, Spiderman, will have the music composed by the U2 members Bono and Edge. They have together composed 18 songs for this play, which is a comic book adaptation. This Broadway musical is produced by $25 m productions and is expected to open in Broadway in October 2009. U2 is planning to release an album based on this musical and they are trying to release the album soon after the release of their next album in October this year. It was tough work for Bono and Edge as they had to write the tracks that would be apt for the Broadway play and that which will grab the audience attention to the play.

Paul Guinness, the long time manager of the most popular band in the world U2, has criticized the way Radiohead allowed its fans to download the songs of its latest music album free. The front man of the U2 band Bono does not completely agree to this criticism from his manager. Bono feels that the new thought provoked by Radiohead is not such a bad idea and called this attempt by the Radioheads an absolutely courageous  decision and one that has involved a lot of thought process. U2 are also currently working out on a new album that is slated to hit the music stores by October.  

Bono is happy that Japan has expressed its desire to help the poor and war torn country of Africa. As a guest attendee of the fourth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD IV) , Bono showed his pleasure to the public one day before the African development conference was to be held in Yokohama and praised Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda’s doubling their efforts in eradicating poverty and famine in Africa. But the humanitarian in Bono says that this is not enough and he wishes that more can be done to help the long suffering nation. He also recommends that the Food and Agriculture Organization be helped as food supplies are running low.

The front man of the world famous U2 band, Bono, has revealed that the U2’s historic peace concert at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast was the most important event to have happened in the history of U2 so far. Bono, in a recent interview, said that he very much admired the people of Belfast for voting yes in the referendum for the peace process. He said that this gig at Belfast was featured in the headlines of most newspapers for tow or three days. David Trimble and John Hume had joined the U2 band on stage and Bono held their hands high in the air as a symbol of hope.

The lead singer of the world famous U2 band, Bono, celebrated his birthday last Friday night at Sass Café in Monaco and it was not an ordinary birthday party at all. The list of the invited guests to the birthday party goes like this: Brad Pitt, the U2’s lead guitarist The Edge and Prince Albert II of Monaco. The café manager said that it was a surprise party as they received a call to organize the same late on that afternoon. The dinner was all arranged by Bono’s wife Ali Hewson and the guests were treated with red wine at the dinner table. A champagne toast for Bono and a candle lit strawberry cake followed right after the meal.

U2, the ambitious owners of the Dublin’s Clarence Hotel is waiting for the approval of the extension plan of the hotel from the planning authorities. But the conservationists are against the expansion of the hotel as it will cause destruction to the decorative building of Clarence hotel constructed in 1937 and destruction of another 19^th century buildings of Georgian style and Dollard House, a monumental building constructed in 1886.

 The U2 guitarist Edge said that he and Bono the other co-owner do not have any optional plans if the planning board rejects the original plan. The owners wanted to quadruple the size and to make it an eight–storey building with 140 bedrooms. The new hotel design is done by the renowned architect Norman Foster. The plan proposes to re-use the fire-places, skirting boards, floor boards etc. The new hotel will have a big glass atrium at the heart of the hotel which will be open to the public. But many people as well as U2 fans feel that the plan disregard the conservation policies of the Dublin City Council.