"Boy" tour - september 16, 1980. U2 perform in Plymouth, England at the Fiesta Suite. U2 are billed as "The U2s" on posters promoting the show. Tickets cost £1.25 each.
"ZOOTV" tour - september 16, 1992. U2 perform in Chicago, Illinois at the World Music Amphitheater. Mayor Dwight Welch of Country Club Hills, goes to court to force U2 to turn down the music after recieving 100 complaints about the volume for the remaining shows -- U2 and the World Music Ampitheater win the case. While U2 plays a series of Zoo TV shows in Chicago, the band meets up with U.S. presidential candidate Bill Clinton, who is also staying at Chicago's Ritz Carlton Hotel. Support is B.P. Fallon, "Big Audio Dynamite II" and "Public Enemy".
"B.B. King´s b-day" - september 16, 1989. A celebration for B.B. King's 64th birthday party is on a boat, which U2 have rented specifically for occasion. Eventually, B.B. takes the stage with Bono and The Edge, and the three perform a few songs.
63rd 'VERTIGO' show - september 16, 2005. Toronto ON, Canada - Air Canada Center - Dashboard Confessional - "The Ocean" / opera for 'Sometimes' / Lanois joins the band for 'One' / 'Happy B-Day' to B.B. King / 2 songs filmed for TV by Lian Lunson / local band played part of 'Out Of Control' with U2! City of Blinding Lights, Vertigo, Elevation, The Electric Co., The Ocean, Beautiful Day, Miracle Drug, Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own - (opera), Love and Peace or Else, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Bullet the Blue Sky, Miss Sarajevo, Pride, Where the Streets Have No Name, One. Encores: The Fly, With or Without You, All Because of You, Fast Cars, Happy Birthday, Yahweh, Out of Control, 40. Bono sings a bit of opera at the end of Sometimes. Daniel Lanois makes another appearance, tonight joining the band for an extended version of One. After Fast Cars, Bono calls BB King at home to wish him a happy 80th birthday and leads the crowd in singing Happy Birthday. After Yahweh, Bono sees a sign: 'U2 + Our Band + Out of Control = Happy Audience.' He invites the local band on stage and they take over U2's instruments for the first half of Out of Control. U2 come back to reclaim their gear and finish the song. People with small videocameras are on stage taping the 2nd encore, from All Because of You through the phone call to BB King. **** 'Happy Birthday BB King' Birthdays, video shoots, local band onstage. Third night in Toronto is out of control....'Larry Mullen Jnr, Hello Hello Vertigo...!' was phenomenal. 'Alright, Night Three' confirms Bono, as if there were lingering doubts, and then, during The Ocean, he recalls The Maple Leaf Bar to big respect. 'We made this album when we were kids 17,18,19...'... and Adam is smiling like he knows it. 'After 20 years we might need more than 20 minutes,'...'This is for the children's hospital here in town,' explains Bono as Edge opens up Miracle Drug. 'It's dedicated to doctors and nurses - and the scientists who help them come up with new solutions to old problems.' ...'We grew up in Ireland, and we grew up with terrorism a hundred miles up the road - but even in Dublin we had problems. Now you look around the world and it's everywhere. The thing about terrorism is that they fundamentally don't believe that people are more important than ideas.. we believe that people are more important than ideas, from Louisiana to Mozambique to Toronto to Sarajevo.' ... 'We're looking for the Milky Way tonight, lets see what we can find, or some other galaxy.'...No sooner had the band caught their breath than director Lian Lunson - she of the acclaimed Leonard Cohen documentary (I'm Your Man), premiered in the city earlier this week - is up on stage with a film crew. The band are playing Fast Cars again, only the second live performance ever (Don't laugh!' says Bono) and it is being committed to film. (Who knows what for ? Guess we'll find out soon enough.) The director gets a kiss on the cheek as she takes her crew off stage and it's a time for celebrations - this being the eightieth birthday of the one and only BB King. 'Lets call him at home and wish him Happy Birthday!'...'You know how much you mean to us.' says Bono, and we did....Spotting an inviting sign in the crowd (our band + a song with U2=happy crowd), ), before we quite know what is happening a local Toronto band are up on stage to perform their own version of Out of Control. With Edge joining Menew (as we discover they are called) on guitar (he could go far), Shade, Key and Nathan Samuel Phillip showed they know how to rock'n'roll - and the locals loved them....look for Edge and Bono here. Bono and the crowd here. Edge and a local singer here. **** 'All Because Of You' and 'Fast Cars' were filmed for TV, according to Bono: "...Wacky wildness ensues. And more people on stage than you can imagine. Daniel Lanois, a film crew, and a local Toronto band all join U2 on stage for their third show at the Air Canada Centre. Lanois joins U2 to perform 'One,' a film crew tapes the band as they perform 'All Because of You' and 'Fast Cars' (for television, according to Bono), and a local band perform 'Out of Control,' with U2 taking over halfway through the song. The highlight of the show is a phonecall to BB King to wish him happy birthday. (Too bad the speaker phone didn't work.) Bono gets the audience to sing 'Happy Birthday' to King for his 80th birthday." **** a kiss by Bono in return......Interferencer Mrs. Edge, who danced with Bono in her belly dance costume the other night in Toronto, had a thank-you sign for the band and was blown a kiss by Bono in return.... **** "they believe in ideas over people...well, we believe in people over ideas" ....The show was filled with positive energy, and the crowd was wild. The music sounded great, and Bono's voice was spot on....Daniel Lanois played guitar solo on One during an extended version. Where the Streets have no name was a big highlight. This song is so powerful live. He made reference to Africa and Louisianna during the intro. A local band was pulled out of the crowd to play Out of Control. "You better be good, because I don't normally hang around tall people", Bono joked. In fact, they looked perfectly in control and relaxed jamming on stage with U2. Bono sat back while the singer played one verse, and then Bono would sing the next, while the guitarist jammed with the Edge...that was just amazing...something those guys will never forget. Who are they? A U2 cover band? Congrats guys, you were great! Bono called on everyone to turn on their cell phones, and shut off the house lights...all you could see was tiny lights, and he referred to it as a new galaxy. The declaration of Human rights was read...and he flashed Paul Martin's number. "He's a good man. Canada needs to lead", Bono said. He also made reference to terrorism and said "they believe in ideas over people...well, we believe in people over ideas". It was a long set, going over 2 hours and 20 minutes. **** Edge, the scientist of the band coudln´t get the speaker phone to work...! "what, you think that echo unit s--- is easy"... When Sunday Bloody Sunday started, the crowd erupted, and this was probably the most memorable moment of the concert. Everyone in my section stood up again and we were all standing up until the end of the concert from here on in. They really nailed SBS; there was a lot of energy from the band....When Edge was doing the ending solo of One, Daniel Lanois jumped on the stage out of nowhere, and Bono gave him his guitar, and Lanois started playing....The Fly, and again it was a great performance with Bono going crazy on the guitar and jumping around with a lot of energy during the parts where he didn't have to sing....The Edge was back and started playing the intro to All Because of You. A film crew of 2 women came up onto the stage and recorded this song and the next (Fast Cars). Bono was going wild during All Because of You, he probably wanted to give his best performance for the cameras, and he threw his tambourine into the crowd just before the final verse of the song. During Fast Cars, Bono was doing a little dance (he seemed to be mixing up a Latin dance with a Middle Eastern dance which was very interesting). Then they tried calling BB King, and Bono couldn't get the speaker phone working, after Bono mentioned that Edge could do it because he was a scientist, everyone laughed, so bono said "what, you think that echo unit shit is easy" and then The Edge gave it a crack and Bono told the crowd that Edge was the scientist of the Band, and then after Edge couldn't get it to work. So then Bono just talked to him and we couldn't hear BB. But then we got to sing Happy Birthday to BB, and then after BB said something to Bono and Bono responded...**** Some photos on: U2tours. U2 tours. U2 tours. spaz
Bono and Ali in Chicago (One Bono For One Campaign To Wipe Out Poverty - Singer and Wife Looking To Inspire Social Consciousness) - September 16, 2006 - U2 frontman Bono visited Chicago, where he brought a little "star power" to a new campaign. The One Campaign is a global effort to help wipe out poverty in Africa. The mega-star and his wife are working with an American designer to start a new trend and inspire social consciousness. 'They are made in Africa, with African cotton and $10 from every shirt goes to a fund to fight AIDS,”said Ali Hewson, Bono's wife. Hewson is hoping Americans will rally behind this cause with the same passion she and her husband, Bono, have for the project. Visits to Africa inspired Hewson to create “"Edun" -- a clothing label with American designer Rogan Gregory. “We started Edun because we thought people were asking for choice, a choice to have beautiful clothes that also weren't made from someone else's distress,” Hewson said. All three presented their new “One” T-shirt to 200 shoppers at the Nordstrom on Michigan Ave. Saturday. The retail giant is selling the shirts exclusively. cbs2chicago
ESPN to broadcast the performance live during its Monday Night Countdown pre-game show (Superdome-New Orleans)- September 16, 2006 - The NFL will go marching back into New Orleans on Sept. 25 with a mega-concert and a day of activities to mark the first pro football game in the Superdome since August 2005, and the first regular season NFL game in New Orleans since Dec. 26, 2004. The game between the New Orleans Saints and Atlanta Falcons, which will be seen on ESPN’s Monday Night Football, will be preceded by a concert starring U2 and Green Day. ESPN will broadcast the performance live during its Monday Night Countdown pre-game show.
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