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Not only is the King and Queen in the country, but Bono gushed about Canada

May 27, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

The Morning Show on Global News got a Canadian exclusive. He had some nice things to say about our country and how we’re standing up internationlly.

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U2 covered ABBA with an orchestra

March 18, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

U2’s Songs of Surrender finally arrived yesterday and Bono and The Edge have been doing the rounds promoting the album. One stop was BBC Radio 2 where they performed ABBA’s 1975 hit, “SOS,”

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

March 10, 2023 Alan Cross 2 Comments 0 min read

I’m a lifelong U2 fan and I’ve collected plenty of their stuff over the years, but even I’m scratching my head at the bewildering number of variations in which Songs of Surrender will

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Documentary

Bono and The Edge have a new doc featuring David Letterman

January 15, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

To hear Letterman tell it, he won a radio contest to go to Dublin for a chance to hang out with the U2’s Bono and The Edge. The truth is that he’s in

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Music News

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

January 11, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments 4 min read

It’ll be called Songs of Surrender and will feature 40 songs from U2’s past re-recorded and re-imagined. Whether this exercise will improve on the originals will be seen on March 17 when the

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

January 9, 2023 Alan Cross 1 Comment 3 min read

U2 fans worldwide are freaking out as a select number of them started receiving letters–actual physical in-the-mailbox letters–introducing a new album and hashtagged #U2SOS40. To the shock of no one, the album is

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

October 3, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

On November 1, Bono will release his memoir Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story. To promote things, he’s going on a 14-city book tour. But this being Bono, he won’t be appearing at bookstores.

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Rumours about TWO new albums from U2 pick up steam

July 29, 2022 Alan Cross 2 Comments 1 min read

Earlier this month, the Red Hot Chili Peppers announced that they were going to release a second album in 2022 this fall, and a double one at that. That’s a lot of Chili

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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, 2022 Alan Cross 5 Comments 3 min read

There’s online buzz about the possibility that U2 has delivered a record called (we think) Songs of Surrender, a collection of re-recorded songs to Universal Music. We even have a possible release date:

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Ongoing History of New Music Podcast

Each week, the podcast looks at something from the alt-rock universe, from artist profiles to various thematic explorations. Whatever the episode, you’re definitely going to learn something that you might not find anywhere else. Trust us on this.

Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry

Have I got a story for you! Award-winning Music Historian and host of the chart-topping Ongoing History of New Music Podcast Alan Cross unleashes his next amazing podcast. In every episode, Alan Cross takes you inside unbelievable true stories of crime, murder, scandal, strange deaths, unexplainable events, and the general mayhem from the music industry through the decades. There is a lot of bad behaviour that needs to be talked about. It’s a one-of-a-kind podcast featuring true crime stories from the world of music. OUT NOW!

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