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Songs of Surrender

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U2 covered ABBA with an orchestra

March 18, 2023March 18, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments ABBA, BBC, Bono, Radio 2, Songs of Surrender, SOS, The Edge, U2

U2’s Songs of Surrender finally arrived yesterday and Bono and The Edge have been doing the rounds promoting the album.

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Music News 

U2’s Songs of Surrender comes out on March 17. How many variations of one album do we really need?

March 10, 2023March 10, 2023 Alan Cross 2 Comments Cassettes, Songs of Surrender, U2, Vinyl

I’m a lifelong U2 fan and I’ve collected plenty of their stuff over the years, but even I’m scratching my

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Documentary 

Bono and The Edge have a new doc featuring David Letterman

January 15, 2023January 15, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments Bono, David Letterman, Disney+, Songs of Surrender, The Edge, U2

To hear Letterman tell it, he won a radio contest to go to Dublin for a chance to hang out

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Music News 

Here comes all the news about the upcoming U2 album (lots of pictures and images!)

January 11, 2023January 11, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments New Album, Songs of Surrender, U2

It’ll be called Songs of Surrender and will feature 40 songs from U2’s past re-recorded and re-imagined. Whether this exercise

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Music News 

We might get a new U2 album any second now (Okay, not quite. But soon.)

January 9, 2023January 9, 2023 Alan Cross 1 Comment New Album, Songs of Surrender, U2

U2 fans worldwide are freaking out as a select number of them started receiving letters–actual physical in-the-mailbox letters–introducing a new

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Concerts 

Bono is going on a book tour. Here are the dates.

October 3, 2022October 4, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Bono, Book Tour, Merdian Hall, Songs of Surrender, Toronot

On November 1, Bono will release his memoir Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story. To promote things, he’s going on a

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Music News 

Rumours about TWO new albums from U2 pick up steam

July 29, 2022July 29, 2022 Alan Cross 2 Comments Las Vegas, New Album, Re-worked Songs, Songs of Surrender, U2

Earlier this month, the Red Hot Chili Peppers announced that they were going to release a second album in 2022

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Rumours of a new(ish) U2 album are swirling about. And a track may have been leaked by–wait for it–Nancy Pelosi.

April 1, 2022April 1, 2022 Alan Cross 5 Comments Bob Ezrin, Bono, Daniel Lanois, Leak, Nancy Pelosi, Songs of Surrender, U2

There’s online buzz about the possibility that U2 has delivered a record called (we think) Songs of Surrender, a collection

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