JUNE 27: show added at last minute / Bono introduces Edge as Rory Gallagher in Croke Park / "Sweet Caroline" / 38th VERTIGO show (Croke Park III): EXTRAORDINARY / European debut for 6 songs / 2nd encore / the show is filmed! It's party time for the 3rd and final Dublin gig!

"War" tour - june 27, 1983. U2 perform in New Haven, Connecticut at the Coliseum. The show was a last minute addition to the tour. This is the second arena-sized date, and the building is only half-filled. Support is Marshall Crenshaw, and "The Alarm".

"The Joshua Tree" tour - june 27, 1987. U2 perform in Croke Park in Dublin, Ireland. Attendance for both shows is 114,000. On the first night, Irish DJ Dave Fanning introduces U2 to a capacity crowd for U2's homecoming concert: "Allright...listen! Are you ready? Okay, they have thir clothes on...it's been two long years since Croke Park, so please welcome, back to Dublin...U2!" The crowd reply electrically, and the band has trouble getting rid of the tension of playing their hometown gig; when Bono starts singing "Where the Streets Have No Name" he misses his cue by a second or two. Bono is extremely talkative and expressive on this night, "When we started this group in 1977, I was 17, Edge was 15, Larry still is 15, Adam was 17 going on 70--a wise man. We didn't know where we were going, we just wanted to go there together. Ten years later, 1987. Croke Park. Our journey isn't over yet..," and then The Edge cut into "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For." "A Sort of Homecoming" is played for the last time on the tour, and hasn't been played since. Bono introduces "People Get Ready" as an "American gospel song we picked up", and invites a guitarist from the audience to play along with the band. During the encore of "Party Girl", Bono introduces The Edge as Rory Gallagher. At the end of the song, Bono's wife Ali Hewson comes on stage to serve champagne to the band. "Mmmm...Imagine being married to that, whooo!" Bono shouts to the crowd. Support for the first night is "Light a Big Fire", "The Dubliners", "The Pogues" and Lou Reed.

"POPMart" tour - june 27, 1997. U2 perform in Chicago, Illinois. U2 purchase 3 dozen pizzas for the fans waiting outside their hotel. Edge´s karaoke this night is "Sweet Caroline".

38th 'VERTIGO' show - june 27, 2005 - Dublin, Ireland - Croke Park - Ash, The Bravery. EXTRAORDINARY / European debut for 6 songs / 2nd encore / the show is filmed! It's party time for the 3rd and final Dublin gig. Gloria, An Cat Dubh - Into the Heart, Original of the Species, Bad, and 40 all make their European Tour debuts. After Vertigo ends the show, U2 returns for two more songs in an unplanned 2nd encore. Tonight's show, like Saturday's, is filmed. Edge and Bono. Adam. Edge. Larry. Edge and Bono singing. 'This next song is about patience, it's a beautiful song - Original of the Species - for the ones you leave behind. Original of the Species.' An ecstatic version of Bad gives way to City of Blinding Lights ( 'Blinding lights brings on the night') with Bono showing some love to the Cusack Stand to an ovation of applause before Christopher Nolan receives a moving dedication at the beginning of Miracle Drug. 'Freely elected leader of Burma, great leader of human rights, lets sing to her tonight.' During Streets, Bono sings to Adam, way down the b-stage, with Bono taking a flag and bringing it up on stage - 'Make Poverty History'....'These decisions are made at the last minute So still need everyone to get involved..'...the band return to the stage with a dedication to friends and family, management, Paul McGuinness, crew and the 'wonderful Sharon Blankson'. And there's still time for Yahweh and 40. What a benediction! What a night! A touching moment in a show that tugged at the heart repeatedly. 'If the children don't grow up, our bodies get bigger but our hearts get torn up,' goes the song to which the band take to the stage. It might have been a Virgin Prunes lyric, a coda to the Lypton Village motto to never, ever, grow up. Children featured heavily this final Dublin show: The Edge had Bono dedicate to a 'Bernadette' of Crumlin's Children's hospital and 'Into the Heart' went out to Crumlin's staff. Many times during the show Bono let himself go, riding the waves and soaking up the energy coming off the audience, arms spread out, embracing the moment. These are the moments that become memories for the band, their crew and their fans. Somo photos on: U2-Vertigo-tour and Interference