JUNE 24: "The Tube" in 83 / Sick of all flags / this isn´t the name of new album / 36th 'VERTIGO' show-CROKE PARK I: a triumphant homecoming / rain-Mexican wave / before playing a note the band walked to the front of the stage to accept the adulation of fans / Bono joined The Edge for Electrical Co. / 'Rain' and Thin Lizzy's 'Jailbreak' / Crumlin Childrens Hospital!

"War" tour - june 24, 1983. U2 perform in Jacksonville, California. Support is "The Alarm". British TV music show "The Tube" airs "I Will Follow" which was taped in front of a studio audience on March 16,1983.

"The Joshua Tree" tour - june 24, 1987. U2 perform in Belfast, Northern Ireland at King's Hall. Once U2 take the stage, ten or twenty Irish Tri-Colors appear in the audience. Bono immediately reacts, "You can take down the flags, we don't need any flags...we're SICK of ALL FLAGS!" Support is Lou Reed.

"Album rumors quashed" - june 24, 2003. A HotPress.com article kills recent rumors that the next U2 album will be called "Solar" and that it'll be released on March 8, 2003. Says Four5One's Steve Averill: "We haven't done any work on the cover yet and 'Solar' isn't on the possible list of titles we've been given."

36th 'VERTIGO' show - june 24, 2005 - Dublin, Ireland - Croke Park - Snow Patrol / Radiators - a triumphant homecoming / rain-Mexican wave / before playing a note the band walked to the front of the stage to accept the adulation of fans / Bono joined The Edge for Electrical Co. / 'Rain' and Thin Lizzy's 'Jailbreak' / Crumlin Childrens Hospital! U2 returns to Croke Park almost 20 years to the date of their first gig in the historic Dublin stadium. Rain falls for much of the day and night, and twice Bono sings a bit of the Beatles' 'Rain.' A bit of Thin Lizzy's 'Jailbreak' is added at the end of Vertigo 2. 'It doesn't get any better than this...': 'The funky side of town, the north side of Dublin,' exclaimed Bono as the biggest audience on the tour to date, all 82,000 of them, started jumping and jiving - barely stopping for breath all night....'I think that was the third time we have played that ever...' said Bono, as a soaring rendition of Wild Horses came to a close. 'Hope it was to your liking.' At which point Bruce Ramus, Lighting Director, swung a spotlight on a huge banner hanging over a balcony on one of the main stands. Bono read out the greeting:'Welcome home boys... We will see you in Rome next week!' Cue a momentary meditation on the poet Keats....and Bono took the moment to thank Adam, Larry and Edge as well as management and crew for 'giving us such a great life'. Introducing Miracle Drug, he recalled the last time the band had played in this stadium, not twenty years ago but three years ago, a short but special performance at the Special Olympics. It was a sign, he said, of the way that Ireland is about the future, revealing that there were some special guests here tonight from Crumlin Childrens Hospital. 'We want to welcome them,' he added to great cheers, 'This song is for the doctors and nurses, especially the nurses!'...of Running to Stand Still to Aung San Suu Kyi- who was given the Freedom of Dublin on the same day as U2. Last weekend she spent her sixtieth birthday, the elected leader of her people, under house arrest. And for a third night Bono ended the song singing 'Happy Birthday' to the Burmese leader, segueing into a clip of Walk On, the track from the band's last album which was dedicated to her....As the applause rose to greet the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the opening chords of Pride In The Name of Love created total pandemonium - a sea of raised hands and soaring voices. ' A dream when everyone is free and equal under the eyes of God.'...a song originally inspired by Africa which has found new meaning in Africa in 2005. 'This is our moment, from the charity of the old Live Aid to the justice of the new Live8,from drop the debt to trade justice to make poverty history-the journey of equality GOES ON!'...'What a beautiful night, beautiful night,' as the singer put it. 'It doesn't get any better than this, this band, this home town and this stadium!'...'Oh, yes, you look so beautiful tonight...' Edge, Adam and the stage. Edge walking to the mini-stage. Croker-lights. One song 'Miracle Drug' was dedicated to the staff of Crumlin's Children's Hospital. The crowd approved. Bono wasn't bullshitting. "The last time we were in this beautiful stadium was at the Special Olympics, and that was an extraordinary evening," declared Bono. "Ireland was not about the past, it was about the future and it was excited about the future."...And the noise, the bass notes, reverberated up through the soles of our feet. People will have seen the band live at 110 shows paying a total of £220 million. Heroe´s welcome as the boys are back in town. Bono. The crowd. U2 thrill 80,000 at Dublin venue. A haon, a do, a tri, a ceather deag. 'What's Irish for 14, Larry?': Bono is serious. For their second performance of 'Vertigo' of the night, he walks over to the drum kit to ask Larry Mullen how to say 14 'as Gaeilge'. Misunderstanding, Larry shouts: 'A h-aon'! ('one') Bono asks again and this time the drummer gets it right: 'ceithir deug'. Three times he tells Bono how to say it. 'A h-aon, a dhà, a trì, a ceithirmmmmmfrgh!'...'Oh, you look so beautiful tonight,' Bono told the Croke Park audience. Absolutely gorgeous, yes. Some photos on: U2-Vertigotour. Read more: here and here