JUNE 29: parking area by the docks / "My Hometown" to Bob Hewson - Croake Park (the place where happened the Bloody Sunday in nov 21, 1920) / "Can´t Help Falling In Love" / "It's Not Unusual" / AMERICAN MORNING - Singer and activist Bono one year after the "Live 8" concert !

"War" tour - june 29, 1983. U2 perform in New York City, New York at Pier 84. The show is a large open-air show in a parking area by the docks. In the distance, is the USS Enterprise, an aircraft carrier of the US Navy. The sponsor is Miller Beer, which helps keep ticket prices low. A local TV crew filming the event for the news is dragged onto the stage by Bono, who exclaims, "Come here, film these people," and launches into a speech about this tour being the "War on Boring Music Tour". Bono points the cameras out into the crowd and says, "These people are here because they are sick to the teeth of what they're hearing on the radio and TV. They're here because they believe in rock & roll, like I do - not Wallpaper Music..." Support is "The Alarm". The tour grosses nearly $2 million and marks the first time U2 makes money while touring.

"The Unforgettable Fire" tour - june 29, 1985. U2 perform in Dublin, Ireland at Croke Park in front of 57,000 people. DJ Dave Fanning introduces the band, "Now they're back! They have conquered the world. Are you ready for the greatest live rock & roll show you will ever see? Welcome back Bono, Larry, Adam and The Edge: U2!" Bono introduces "Sunday Bloody Sunday": "This is a song I wish we didn't have to write--but we had to write it, and we want to play it. One day Irishmen will stop fighting each other over the past. They will live and work together in the present. This is not the future..." The original Bloody Sunday happened in Croake Park itself on November 21, 1920. U2 are joined by violinist Steve Wickham for the song. U2 perform Bruce Springsteen's "My Hometown" which Bono dedicates to his father. Backstage after the show, Bono was overheard in a conversation: "For an Irishman to be standing on that stage just means so much, not just for us(U2), but for all Irishmen." U2 donate their proceeds from the show to the building of rehearsal rooms for young bands that cannot affort their own equipment. The building, called "The City Centre" opens in June 1989. U2 donate the proceeds from this show to the building of a music rehearsal center for young bands without equipment and a place to practice called The City Centre, which opened in June, 1989. Support for the concert is "In Tua Nua", "REM", "The Alarm" and "Squeeze".

"Bono vocers Elvis for Hollywood" - june 29, 1992. Bono tucks himself away in the STS Studios for the night to record his solo version of "Can't Help Falling in Love" for the upcoming Honeymoon in Vegas movie soundtrack.

"POPMart" tour - june 29, 1997 / Chicago, IL - Soldier Field - Fun Lovin' Criminals - Edge´s karaoke this night is "It's Not Unusual".

AMERICAN MORNING - Singer and activist Bono one year after the "Live 8" concert. Did aid to Africa live up to its promise? Promises to Africa; Democrats & Religion - Aired June 29, 2006 - 07:34 ET - THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. ... I don't think what's happening in Africa, with AIDS in particular and just the poverty and despair there, is a cause. I think it's an emergency. And lots of people have causes, and I have. But 69,000 people die ever day -- not a cause, an emergency. ... Bono is the only person to be nominated for a Grammy, an Oscar and the Noble Peace Prize. ... Thanks. Thanks for having us on. ... Well, there's good news and bad news, the DATA report shows. There's a couple of high grades to be given. Maybe we should start with those. I mean, just in the United States, you should be very proud that you have a truly historic AIDS initiative. It was an unfathomable, even a few years ago, to imagine that you could get, I think it's probably 600,000 people on anti-retroviral drugs in an 18- month period. On motorcycles and on bicycles, those drugs got out there, and I think you should be very proud about that. Though, that said, Congress in the last months have tried to block the president's request for his AIDS money for next year, and that, that's bewildering. You know, I was just in Africa a few weeks ago, and there's kids following me around like I'm a hero. They think I'm American. I don't explain where Ireland is. And I'm saying, you know, the reason she's following me around is because her mother, her father, her sister, her brother, all HIV-positive, all going to die, but these drugs are on their way from America. ... And she thinks I'm a hero. The idea of going back to that kid and saying actually, the Congress cut the budget, sorry about that, is just obscene. ... Soledad, you're exactly right. And I think the cavalry here are going to turn out to be the American people. They're organizing in ways that are very inspiring, across the political spectrum, you know. There's two -- I think it's maybe 2.2 million Americans have joined the one campaign recently, one.org, because they're serious about this. They're soccer moms. They're student activists. They're NASCAR dads. They're hip-hop stars. I mean, it's not just rock stars and policy wonks that are on this. And I think it says something deep about the way Americans feel about America right now, which is, they do not like to see their flag disrespected in far- off places around the world. They're very proud of this AIDS initiative. They want to put kids in schools, because they know that Democracy is being taught in those schools. I was in a school in Abuja with Gordon Brown, the finance minister, the chancellor of (INAUDIBLE), the U.K. And next door to where we were sitting, there was a class being taught in Nigeria about democracy, complicated questions that the kids could easily answer. A thousand miles from there in northern Nigeria, there are madrassas where children are being taught to hate us. So I think that it's a missed opportunity not to keep the promises made in the G8 and get more kids to school. Because of the debt cancellation movement -- that's another thing I want to give a good mark on, debt cancellation. They did follow through on that, and when I was recently in Africa, 15 million more kids were going to school, because of the drop-the-debt movement. And all the people that got out on the streets there should, you know, should give themselves a high five. That was really something. But there's 40 million more African children that want to go to school who can't, and in these dangerous times it might be just smart to get them to school. So, unless we keep track of these promises and fulfill them, they won't go to school. So that's the kind of yin and yang of this DATA report. ...That used to be true. The Cold War was fought on the African continent, and we in the West propped up some very dangerous dictators by giving them loans and throwing aid at them, because they were not communists. And we can't then point to the waste of those resources as just their fault. Anyway, that era is over. Now we only increase aid to countries where we can see that they're tackling corruption, where there's a clear and transparent process. If there's not, we pull out. In Ethiopia, things were looking great for a while, and then we couldn't see where the money was going, people pulled out. In Uganda, the Global Fund, this extraordinary organization that gets AIDS drugs to people and fights TB and malaria, they pulled out of Uganda because they couldn't see the -- where the money was going. It's a new era of aid, and I think Americans will become much more generous when they know that the money is being spent well. And I can assure you, with the Millennium Challenge corporation supported in Congress, that's what will happen. ... I think the dawning of on the body politick that this strategic value in dealing with Africa's problems. It's a 40 percent Muslim country. A country like Nigeria is a big oil-producing country. And it would be awful to see Nigeria get into trouble. I think then just at the grassroots level, as we get into the 2008 election, I think politicians will be wise to pay attention to this movement, because it will be five million by then. And you know, that's like -- that's real political muscle. This -- by 2008, we won't be tin cupping, oh please, please, you know, the poor come bowing around the back corridors of Congress. This is what the American people want. We're looking at not even one percent of the GDP of the United States. We're looking not even at .5 of a percent of the GDP. The United States is at .22. It's a fraction of a single point. So when Americans see that you can transform millions and millions of lives around the world and critically transform the way they see us in these dangerous times, they will prevail. And history is on our side here. This -- we will win. Right now, we're -- there's people dragging their feet, but we will prevail. And by you giving us access on your program, CNN, supporting us like you do in your Africa stories, you make it a lot easier. So thank you. ... Read whole transcription on cnn