JUNE 9: Bruce Springsteen meets U2 in 81 / more portions recorded to Boston video / 56th World Newspaper Congress in Dublin / Bono joins EU Appeal for Doubling of Africa Aid / Edge at Bercy !

"Boy" tour - june 9, 1981. U2 in London, England at the Hammersmith Palais. Playing one final show before going home to begin recording the album that would become October, U2 opens a show in London's Hammersmith Palais with a song called "Carry Me Home," which was never performed again. Bruce Springsteen postpones his return home to stay in London to watch this U2 show, and he meets the band afterward. Support is "Altered Images" and "This Heat".

"War" tour - june 9, 1983. U2 perform in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

"ZOOTV-Zooropa" tour - june 9, 1993. U2 perform in Bremen, Germany at Weserstadion.

"Elevation" tour - june 09, 2001 / Boston, MA - Fleet Center - PJ Harvey. With Elvis Costello on hand, Bono quotes from 'Pump It Up' in 'Elevation' and 'Alison' in 'Bad.' He also quotes from 'Dude (Looks Like a Lady)' in honor of Boston's own Aerosmith. 'Party Girl' is played for the first time since June 6, 1993. A fan gets on stage during 'Walk On', lifts and cradles Bono, then runs a lap around the heart. Bono introduces Edge: "I´d like to introduce you to, uh, to The Edge." Edge wears red shirt #7, this night. Portions of the show are recorded and would later appear on the U2 Elevation 2001 Live From Boston video release. a fan called David said: "...I met Edge before the show. He seemed pretty shy, but he was a very cool guy, and got out of his car to talk, shake hands, and pose for pictures with the 10-12 fans or so that were there...."

"Bono talks Africa to newspaper editors" - june 9, 2003. Bono continues his crusade for Africa with a speech to editors of the world's newspapers at a conference in Dublin. He tells the 56th World Newspaper Congress a familiar message -- the war on terrorism is bound together with the war on poverty -- and urges the editors to support his appeal to help AIDS victims in Africa.

Bono joins EU Appeal for Doubling of Africa Aid - june 9, 2005 - Brussels - 'Put down the national flags. Look up from the numbers and look to the future.'
Bono Joins EU Appeal for Doubling of Africa Aid...'People don't feel Europe; they feel Europe does not have a vision,' Bono said. 'Africa and the problems of that continent can offer us a chance for Europe to re-describe ourselves, our value system.'...'The promises made by development ministers in the past few weeks are astonishing,' Bono said. 'That is the Europe I want to be part of.'...'This is a moment in history for Germany to come out in the world,' he said. Bono and other music artists and movie stars have backed a worldwide campaign, the Global Call to Action against Poverty, aiming to push richer Western governments to boost aid and offer better trade deals to poorer countries. He is to participate among other stars in the Live 8 five-city concert next month to push governments to find a solution to African poverty. The singer appealed to leaders to ride the wave of popular support for increased aid. 'Don't blow it,' he told them. 'Put down the national flags. Look up from the numbers and look to the future.' The EU is already the worlds' biggest aid donor, but only four of its members ' Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Sweden ' currently meet a 1970 goal for developed nations to commit 0.7% of their gross national income to development aid.

Edge at Bercy - june 9, 2006 - U2 Achtung reports that Edge were, on june 9, at the attendance of Red Hot Chili Peppers´s show, which made a cover of 'Sunday Blooday Sunday'.